Young Performer Summer Series

3MBS

3MBS brings back live-to-air performances to our broadcast by proudly supporting Melbourne’s finest young and emerging talent.All summer long, join on-air presenter, Jess Carrascalao Heard as she introduces some of Melbourne’s brightest young and emerging talent who will perform live from our Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio.3MBS warmly acknowledges the support of the Young Performer Summer Series patrons for making this series possible.

Episodes

  1. E7: Violinist Leanne McGowan

    2021-03-02

    E7: Violinist Leanne McGowan

    We're back after lockdown with the Young Performer Summer Series! This week, we have a special pre-recorded performance by violinist Leanne McGowan, who came third on Season 2 of The Talent 2019. Leanne, with pianist Alex Raineri, performed a wonderful variety of works, from Mozart to Suk.Leanne McGowan is 19 years old and currently completing her Bachelor of Music at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Professor Robert Lipsett. She has previously studied with Spiros Rantos, Yuri Djachenko and Dr Robin Wilson at the Australian National Academy of Music.Leanne has performed as a soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Youth Symphony, the Northern Rivers Symphony Orchestra, Preston Symphony Orchestra and South Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.In 2020 she was a finalist in the MRC Great Romantics Competition, performed as a soloist on the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and was awarded the ANAM Directors’ Prize. She was winner of the QSO 2017 Young Instrumentalists Prize, and in 2019 a semi-finalist in the Gisborne International Music Competition where she was awarded the “Most Promising Player Award,” and a semi-finalist in the ANAM concerto competition. Leanne is also an Australian Chamber Orchestra Emerging Artist in 2020/21.Programme:Mozart: Adagio in E for Violin and Orchestra, K. 261Mozart: Rondo in C for Violin and Orchestra K. 373 R. Strauss: Mvt 2 and 3 from Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18Suk: Love song, Op. 7Zarzycki: Mazurka No.1 in G Major, Op. 26Performers: Multi-instrumentalist Ryan Lynch with pianist Elyane LaussadeHost: Jess Carrascalao HeardTechnical production: Joe Gofron, Sam Bignell, Lachlan McKenziePodcast production: Jess Carrascalao Heard3MBS warmly acknowledges the support of the young performer patrons, for making this broadcast possible.Support the show: https://3mbs.org.au/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    59 min
  2. E2: Soprano Rachael Joyce

    2020-12-20

    E2: Soprano Rachael Joyce

    Episode 2 of the Young Performer Summer Series features an exploration of song and Shakespeare over the ages, with soprano Rachael Joyce. From Henry Purcell in the 17th century, to Australia today with a setting by Alison Bauld, Rachael traverses four centuries of Shakespeare through song, and joins us for a chat about how the musical interpretation of his words have changed over time.Rachael has just finished her Honours year in Classical Voice at Monash University, after completing a Bachelor of Arts (French)/Music in 2019. In 2018, Rachael was recipient of the Hedy Holt & Roger Prochazka Memorial Award for a young female singer showing great potential at the National Liederfest, and in 2019 she was the winner of the Australian Music Prize at Monash University and The Talent on 3MBS. Rachael has a great love of travelling, having spent six months living in Paris participating in a university exchange at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and completed a two-week intensive music in Prato, Italy. Programme:"Come Unto These Yellow Sands", by Henry Purcell"Full Fathom Five", by Henry Purcell"O Let Me Weep" from Fairy Queene, by Henry Purcell"Where the bee sucks", by Thomas Arne"An Sylvia", by Schubert"La Mort d'Ophelie", by Saint-Saëns"Willow, Willow, Willow", by Hubert Parry"Come Away, Death", by Roger Quilter"Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun", by Roger Quilter"A Sea Dirge", by Charles Ives"Cry, C**k-a-doodle doo", by Alison Bauld--Performer: Soprano Rachael JoyceHost: Jess Carrascalão HeardTechnical production: Joe Gofron, Sam BignellPodcast producer: Jess Carrascalão Heard3MBS warmly acknowledges the support of the young performer patrons, for making this broadcast possible.Support the show: https://3mbs.org.au/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    58 min
  3. E1: Pianist Po Goh

    2020-12-20

    E1: Pianist Po Goh

    Welcome to 3MBS's brand new Young Performer Summer Series.Hosted by Jess Carrascalão Heard, each episode of the series will feature a live-to-air performance and interview with from some of the finest emerging classical musicians in Melbourne.Episode 1 features pianist Po Goh with a sublime performance of Rachmaninov, Bach and Margaret Sutherland.Po has just finished his final year at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, where he has had the privilege of studying under Aura Go, Len Vorster, Robert Chamberlain and Dr Kenji Fujimura. Recent achievements include coming first place in Season 1 of 3MBS’ 2019 series of The Talent, as well as performing Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto with the Monash Academy Orchestra under the baton of Jessica Cottis. Outside of solo performance, Po is active in high schools as a piano teacher and accompanist, and is also involved in amateur and semi-professional theatre productions as keyboardist and music director. Programme:Two Chorale Preludes on Bach Chorales, by Margaret SutherlandPrelude and Fugue in B-flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, by J.S. BachPiano Sonata No. 2 (1913), by Sergei Rachmaninoff--Performer: Pianist Po GohHost: Jess Carrascalão HeardTechnical production: Sam Bignell, Greg Matheson, Ramez HermezPodcast producer: Jess Carrascalão Heard3MBS warmly acknowledges the support of the young performer patrons, for making this broadcast possible.Support the show: https://3mbs.org.au/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    59 min

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3MBS brings back live-to-air performances to our broadcast by proudly supporting Melbourne’s finest young and emerging talent.All summer long, join on-air presenter, Jess Carrascalao Heard as she introduces some of Melbourne’s brightest young and emerging talent who will perform live from our Lady Marigold Southey Performance Studio.3MBS warmly acknowledges the support of the Young Performer Summer Series patrons for making this series possible.