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The Huntington Estate Music Festival in Mudgee is a magical experience – an event quite out of the ordinary. Beginning on Friday 16 November with the opening of the Art Exhibition, the Festival will come to life over the ensuing week.
“From the 17th to the 25th of November, world-class chamber music concerts will fill the winery’s intimate Barrel Hall,” explained organiser and Huntington Estate owner Nicky Stevens.
“There will be abundant and exquisite food and wine served in the beautiful winery grounds before, during and after concerts. This continues late into the night under stellar skies, and over long and lazy afternoons in the shade of the trees; and the audience and artists mix freely after the concerts.”
A strong sense of place underpins the event – while the quality is world-class, the setting and atmosphere is rustic, relaxed and unpretentious.
“The honey eaters sing their accompaniment from outside the hall, the stage is made of upturned wine crates and pallets, the striking back drop and acoustic magic is provided by a wall of barrels holding fine red wine as it ages (the good musical vibrations help), the food is locally produced and sourced, and some good old-fashioned country hospitality provides the finishing touch.
“The line-up and program for The 29th Huntington Estate Music Festival is a thrilling, youthful and vibrant mix of dazzling international talent exclusive to Huntington, and the very best Australian musicians, both established and up and coming, will be performing a varied and exciting program of chamber music.”
The Festival begins this weekend and includes two free events for the local community. Ticketed concerts include the full music, food and wine experience and start at $180 for the Opening Night.
OPENING of the Art Exhibition
Friday 16 November 6pm - 8pm
Curated by Kay Norton-Knight of Rosby’s Sculptures in the Garden. Featuring local artists including Denise Faulkner, Jude Bailey-Preston, Nigel White and Anjee du Terreau.
OPENING WEEKEND of the Music Festival
Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 November
Presented in association with Musica Viva, Artistic Director Carl Vine. Featuring Jayson Gillham (Piano), Juliana Koch (Oboe), Amir Farid (Piano) and the Goldner String Quartet and Orava Quartet.
FAMILY CONCERT
Sunday 18 November 5pm - 6.30pm
Featuring a 30 minute performance by Mara! Australia’s leading world music ensemble, and a performance by the young local musicians of the Huntington Ensemble Challenge. Children are free, adults $10. Refreshments available at interval or BYO picnic.
MAIN FESTIVAL
Wednesday 21 - Sunday 25 November
Presented in association with Musica Viva, Artistic Director Carl Vine. For full line up and program artists click here.
“Huntington Estate has always shared its love for music by providing free and subsidised tickets to local musicians young and old, and hosting a dedicated family concert.”
Over the last two years, following a year of research and community engagement in 2016, Huntington has invested significantly in the Mudgee region’s young musicians through the Huntington Music Development Program funded by Festival audience contributions, via the Ensemble Challenge.
The goal is to provide ensemble playing and performance opportunities to musicians under the age of 25 who call Mudgee home; to inspire, coach and encourage their passion for music.
Working with local music teachers, world class musicians such as Dene Olding OA (Concert Master Emeritus of the Sydney Symphony) and leading music educators like Mark Walton OA (former Head of performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) as mentors and program leaders, the selected young musicians have been coached throughout the year through a number of workshops and regular rehearsals culminating in a performance on stage at the Music Festival.
“While 2017 had more of an ‘elite’ focus, with participants who were already accomplished musicians, the 2018 program has concentrated on less experienced musicians, with a long term goal to develop and support these young people to continue to love, play and learn their chosen instruments,” continued Stevens.
“We commissioned Mark Walton to write the Huntington Suite tailored to the combination of instruments and skills of our ten musicians ranging in age from ten to 15 years old, and in levels from Preliminary to Grade 6/7 and recruited 2017 Ensemble Challenge alumna Emma McCarthy North to lead the ensemble. Mark, Emma and local music teachers have worked tirelessly with the children over the year to get it performance ready.
"The world premiere of the Huntington Suite will be on Sunday 18 November, from 5pm in the Barrel Hall at the Huntington Estate Family Concert. All are welcome!
“The Music Festival is unique, internationally renowned, and attracts people from all around Australia and overseas. Mudgee, music, food and wine combine to make magic. Come and experience it for yourself.”
For more information and tickets, visit huntingtonestate.com.au/music-festival
Presented in association with Musica Viva Australia, with Carl Vine Artistic Director and is broadcast live on ABC Classic FM.
For further information, interviews and images please contact:
Nicky Stevens at Huntington Estate on 1800 995 931 or [email protected]
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The 2018 Musicians and Music
The artists playing at the Opening Weekend are marked with an asterisk*.
Pianists Jayson Gillham* (AU/UK) 'The next big thing in the piano world' (ABC Classics), Amir Farid* (AU/US) ‘Exquisitely refined and delicate touch’ (The Advertiser) and Aura Go (AU), Musica Viva’s Futuremaker for 2018, ‘A touchingly beautiful singing sound and a dazzling ability to elicit the multi-layered textures' (Rondo) are joined by two brilliant young European Wind soloists appearing exclusively at Huntington and making their Australian debut: Sebastian Manz - Clarinet (DE) ‘His enchantingly beautiful intonation and technical prowess is unparalleled' (Fono Forum) and Juliana Koch* - Oboe (ES) ‘One of Europe's most sought after oboists' (Opera Musica). Soprano Taryn Fiebig ‘Great musical insight’ (SMH) will return to the stage for her first major commitment following a hiatus to recover from serious illness.
Huntington Estate Festival mainstays the utterly brilliant and beloved Goldner String Quartet* ‘Precisely remarkable…sublimely lovely’ (The Australian), and the exciting young Orava Quartet* ‘Warmth of sound, sublime inner-voicing and spontaneity’ (The Age) make welcome returns, and the biannual presence of the fantastic Australian National Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra, this time led from the unusual position of the Double-Bass seat by the deftly accomplished Damien Eckersley, is always a delight.
The Festival’s Artistic Director Carl Vine says, ‘the collection of artists for 2018 offers a dazzling kaleidoscope of chamber music possibilities as the repertoire weaves between all of the musicians and across three centuries of glorious musical history’.
Highlights include clarinet quintets by Mozart and Weber and masterful music for the oboe by Telemann, Britten, Mozart, Schumann and Saint-Saëns. Brahms is also a strong presence, alongside recent work by Nigel Westlake and our Artistic Director Carl Vine. We also get to enjoy not one but two world premieres in 2018, from gifted young Australian composers Elizabeth Younan and Harry Sdraulig.
Huntington Estate is one of Mudgee and NSW’s most respected winegrowers. Established in 1969 by Bob and Wendy Roberts, the winery is an icon of the region. Current owners, Tim and Nicky Stevens continue to run the winery by five guiding principles: Estate grown, made and bottled, wines are built to age, the reds are released at four to five years, they are only sold direct and substance is key. The winery has become renowned for their Music Festivals that has been performed for over 26 years. The Huntington Estate Music Festival has been described as “‘one of the best chamber music festivals in the world.”
