Don’t miss inspiring concerts with
Tania de Jong AM (Soprano), Hartley Newnham (Countertenor) & Nicholas Routley (Pianist)
Glorious songs and duets by composers including Puccini, Purcell, Pergolesi, Monteverdi, Schubert and Gershwin. The event will also include supper.
“…gorgeous, golden-voiced Tania de Jong is in fine form…what a talent.” Opera Magazine
PRICE: $45 General, $35 Concession (70 min concert and supper with the artists)
DATES:
Friday 21 February at 7:00pm in Montecollum NSW. BOOKINGS: Please call 0411 459 999 to book.
Sunday 23 February at 2:30pm in Rathdowney QLD. BOOKINGS: Please call 0432 303 729 to book.
Address provided on booking.
Hartley Newnham
Toowoomba bor, Hartley studied piano with Max Olding while completing an Arts/Music degree at UQ. He was Director of Music at the Geelong College before undertaking further piano study in Paris. It was at this time he began studying singing in London which led to his becoming Australia’s pioneer counter tenor.
He has performed many concerts in France, including several at the palaces of Versailles and Vincennes, and broadcast for Radio France. He sang there with William Christie, Jean-Claude Malgoire and Trevor Pinnock. In London he has given three Wigmore Hall recitals and broadcast for the BBC.
In Melbourne he was a founding member of the leading early music ensemble La Romanesca performing and recording a huge body of mediaeval and renaissance music in the romance languages. He also began working regularly in concert with Nicholas Routley (piano) and they have premiered many new works by leading Australian composers such as Ross Edwards, Anne Boyd, Gerald Glynn and Clare Maclean. He has sung solo roles with Victorian Opera, in Monteverdi and contemporary works, and has appeared in most of Australia’s leading festivals.
He has sung the solo alto roles in Bach’s Passions & Handel’s Messiah, frequently with the Sydney Chamber Choir, and has appeared in Hong Kong as Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. He has sung Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in both the Sydney & Melbourne Festivals as the world’s only male performer.
In total he sings ten centuries of western music and has presented three Millennium Series in Victoria with the help of many leading musicians. In recent years he has composed music himself for theatre and has written song cycles to texts of Robert Gray (Certain Things) and Dorothy Porter (Crete). He now lives at Rathdowney Qld. where he presents house recitals and he has been examining for the AMEB.
Nicholas Routley
Nicholas Routley has had a broad career in music, as pianist, conductor, and composer. He was for many years a lecturer and then Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Sydney. His pupils, now spread across many continents as well as within Australia, occupy prestigious positions and many have already achieved international renown.
Nicholas studied piano with the renowned teacher Peter Feuchtwanger (the teacher of many great pianists, among them Martha Agerich and Shura Cherkassky) in London. Since then he has specialised in chamber music. Nicholas has toured internationally, having twice given recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall. He has also played at the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, and the Cultural Centre in Hong Kong.
Since moving to the Northern Rivers in 2009 he has founded, and directs, the chamber choir Vox Caldera. Nicholas works as a pianist with with Gaynor Morgan, Emilie Lemasson, Bridget Crouch and Thomas Zachary among others. He is currently president of the Byron Music Society, an organisation which promotes concerts by outstanding musicians of the region and across Australia. He is engaged on the composition of three operas on the subject of the Indian epic, Mahabharata.
