The Annual
Saturday 25th November at 3pm

 Glebe Music Festival

In conjunction with The Glebe Society Inc

Saturday 25th November at 3pm
Gardens of Margaretta Cottage,
6 Leichhardt St, Glebe Point:

PLEKTRA

PROGRAM

East-West

Lalor

Twilight Dance

Lalor

Balkan Rhumba

Lalor

Yutuma

Acquavella

Game of Thrones

Hdjawi

Concerto in C
Allegro – Largo – Allegro

Vivaldi
mandolin soloist: Stephen Lalor

 

 

    INTERVAL

Trio
Allegro – Largo – Allegro

Canciello

Lyuba

Lalor

Zakarpatsky

Lalor

Reflection 1

Lalor

Big Brother

Wrembel

Kolo Kolo

Lalor

PLEKTRA

    Stephen Lalor (chief mandolinist and director) trained in Sydney and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatorium Kiev. Stephen combines composition work with a performance career as a mandolin and guitar specialist with major orchestras and ensembles in Australia (SSO, ACO, AOBO) and overseas.  He has a Musicology Masters and a PhD in Composition (USyd) and was a Churchill Fellow in 2003.

    He has performed in recent years at festivals including The Edinburgh Festival, Tanglewood (USA), and Womadelaide, and in concert halls from Beijing to London and Copenhagen. Stephen’s music is published in Australia, USA and Germany, and is in the collections of the Médiathèque Musicale Mahler (Paris) and the US Library of Congress.

    Mandolins: Fiona Ziegler, Fiona Orenstein, Martha Babineau, Mark Berlage

    Mandola: Yuri Halay; Guitar: Darryl Rule; Bass: Alex Burger
    https://www.facebook.com/PlektraMandolin/ and 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzlYL5zwOQ

    Plsektra

    Stephen Lalor

    Chief mandolinist and musical director
    Stephen Lalor’s
    formal studies include domra (Russian mandolin) & composition at the Tchaikovsky Conservatorium Kiev, and Masters and PhD degrees in music. Stephen is a frequent guest artist with the Sydney Symphony and other major orchestras around Australia & Asia. With world music groups he has performed at festivals ranging from WOMAD to the Montreux Jazz Festival. Stephen has directed and conducted mandolin orchestras and ensembles in concerts and festivals in Australia, the USA and Germany. His music is performed, recorded & broadcast by a number of performers, orchestras & ensembles in Australia & abroad, and heard on ABC Classic FM. Representative works by Stephen are held in the Mediatheque Mahler (Paris) & the US Library of Congress collection. He is represented in Australia by the Australian Music Centre.

     

    Mandolins

    Fiona ZIegler

    Fiona Ziegler commenced her career as a violinist during her final year’s training at the Conservatorium High School, embarking on a tour of China with the Australian Youth Orchestra. The following year, she became a member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra with which she toured Asia, Europe and the UK. She then became a member of the Sydney Symphony and has been an Assistant Concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony since 1995. More recently Fiona has extended her musical interests to the mandolin, has played with the Sydney Mandolin Orchestra and toured with Plektra.

    Fiona Orenstein

    Fiona Orenstein completed her Bachelor of Music Education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as a Mandolin major, with Adrian Hooper as her teacher. Playing with ensembles of various sizes such as the Sydney Mandolins, Sydney Mandolin Orchestra and Orchestra 143 has lead her to being in performances for the ABC, 2MBS FM, at the Sydney Opera House and for music clubs. She has performed with Plektra at the BDZ Plucked String Festival in 2010 and 2014, in America for the Classical Mandolin Society of America’s annual convention in 2012 and in many Sydney venues. Fiona has taught classroom music and conducted various ensembles in NSW highschools and teaches the mandolin privately.


    Martha Babineau

    Martha Babineau attended Sydney Conservatorium of music studying piano and violin. She attained B.A.(hons) in Music from University of Hawai’i, after which she taught classroom music at Windward School, creating marching bands, choirs, recorder consorts and Hawaiian dance groups. Martha teaches piano, plays mandolin with Sydney Mandolin Orchestra and the Mandeltorte Trio, which perform regularly, and domra with the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra, which has successfully toured Russia and China twice and released three CDs.

    Mark Berlage

    Mark Berlage plays mandolin as well as Russian domra and has toured Russia and China with the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra. He studied violin from a young age with Jean Jacobs and later with Adrian Keating through the Australian Institute of Music (AIM). He has played violin in various community chamber orchestras and ensembles, has performed and recorded with folk and country-rock groups and has played jazz guitar in big bands.

      Mandola
    Yuri Halay

    Yuri Halay has been involved for many years in music from the Balkans to the middle and Far East and beyond. His Instrumentation includes oud, domra, mandolin, mando-cello, gaida, kaval, zurna, dizi, souna, tres, baglama ⁄ saz, bansuri and clarinet. He has worked for Musica Viva from 1992 and Young Australia performing in schools throughout Australia. Yuri also plays tenor domra with the Sydney Balalaika Orchestra, which frequently tours playing Russian folk music on original instruments

     

    Guitar

    Darryl Rule

    Darryl Rule attained his BMus degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, specialising in Musicology and Performance, under the tutelage of guitarists Fritz Buss and the late David Hewitt. He has taught both privately and at schools, performed in numerous ensembles, musicals, festivals, and was a founding member of the Johannesburg Guitar Quartet. He has a Masters in Journalism, worked as cultural reporter for the Mail&Guardian newspaper and researched for the Continuum book Soweto Blues: Jazz, Politics and Popular Music, by jazz writer Gwen Ansell. After moving to Sydney, Darryl has continued teaching, joined the Sydney Classical Guitar Society Orchestra, and has been awarded an AMEB Associate Diploma in Classical Guitar.

     

    Bass

    Alex Burger

    Alex Burger studied classical guitar and took up bass at an early age. He has played in several ensembles and groups in Adelaide and Brisbane and more recently in Sydney where he has played double bass with the Sydney Mandolin Orchestra from 2006 to 2010 and as part of the bass section for the 2008 Federated Australasia Mandolin Ensemble Music Festival. Alex is a founding member of Plektra and has toured with them to Europe for the BDZ Plucked String Festivals in 2010 and 2014 and the US for the Classical Mandolin Society of America’s annual convention in 2012.

     



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