DATE: Thursday 10 April, 2025
TIME: 6 – 7pm, Bar open from 5pm
COST: $38/$32
Details
Free-flowing music for flute, piano and cello, inspired by water, breath, spirit and song. Debussy’s Syrinx takes its name from ancient Greek lore. Pursued by Pan, god of the wild, the nymph Syrinx is transformed into river reeds – from which we fashion ‘pan’ pipes. Water mythology also permeates Amy Beach’s ‘Water-Sprites’ Pastorale, which ripples with opalescent textures. Pan was associated with shepherds, lonely figures in the wilds of nature. A Classical work with a Romantic streak, the ‘Shepherd’s Lament’ in Carl Maria von Weber’s piano trio in g minor calls to us as from the hills, full of yearning and virtuosic flourishes.
Notes
*The Tuggeranong Arts Centre Theatre is raked steeply. People with mobility issues are advised that the top two and bottom two rows are the most easily accessible. Please advise us if you have mobility issues and we can direct you to your seats.
About the Artist
The concert flute was never going to be enough for Kiri, so you will often see her play piccolo, alto flute, bass flute, and a suite of recorders during a Griffyn program. If you ask her though, she will tell you that the piccolo is her favourite, which has prompted her husband Michael to expand the repertoire for new works for piccolo, including the 2010 Perelandra Piccolo Concerto which was written for Kiri. Kiri has also performed the world premiere of a new version of David Bedford’s Recorder Concerto, and the Australian premiere of Urmas Sisask’s flute concerto. Kiri hails from the South Coast of New South Wales and has been living in Canberra since 2005 with her husband Michael and dog Gypsy. She maintains an active teaching studio, and has performed and recorded with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Kiri Sollis. Image: Martin Ollman 2023
