Silo Sounds Final Concert For The Year Is Almost Here

Silo Sounds will present its final concert for the year, Splash and WOW with de Graaff and YAU on Sunday, November 10.

The programme opens with an incredible duel, a passionate flourish and battle of the fingers between the two instrumentalists, with Weber’s Grand Duo Concertante for clarinet and piano.

Chopin’s much-loved miniatures (Nocturnes, Waltzes) for piano solo will show off all the colours of the church’s beautiful grand piano Yamaha S6X. A feature piece from their duo album (de Graaff and Yau) Alex Yau’s eerie Passacaglia transports the listener into another world of tonality and dreams.

Nothing will quite prepare you for the operatic drama that will burst forth as Alex conjures up the Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase - a whole opera condensed and then pouring forth from the sound boards of the piano.

A well-loved ditty turns “crazy wild” in Giampieri’s Carnival of Venice for clarinet and piano - and maybe a little bit of something - just to finish off the afternoon before the acclaimed high tea. The concert will commence at 2 pm at Ross Memorial Uniting Church on the corner of Binalong and Derby Streets, Murrumburrah, allowing for an afternoon of sublime music and warm country hospitality, followed by Silo Sounds’ legendary high-tea.

Alexander Yau, an eminent pianist, has developed himself as a versatile and serious musician incorporating his many musical talents as a chamber musician, vocalist, clarinetist, conductor, composer and music arranger.

He has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra, performing the first three piano concertos of Rachmaninov and the mighty Brahms Concerto no 2.

A Silo Sounds favourite, Deborah de Graaff works as a clarinetist, recording artist, educator, music psychologist and administrator.

An award-winning clarinetist, Deborah has been a solo performer and ABC recording artist for over 40 years, performing and winning prizes locally and internationally.

Working with children in youth orchestras, workshops and classes, she has been teaching in schools and her own private studio for over 40 years, including the Sydney Conservatorium high school and University.

At the Conservatorium she also supervised graduate research. Her passion is motivational practice and working to inspire children with music performance.

As well as facilitating many scholarship and prize-winning students, many of her students now work professionally and run their own music collectives, ensembles and organisations.

Silo Sounds is an ongoing music project for her adopted community in Harden Murrumburrah and is made possible with the support, commitment and dedication of a wonderful team of friends and local music lovers.

Booking ahead at events.humanitix.com/silo-sounds-presents-splash-and-wowwith-de-graaff-and-yau supports children in the third world and helps Silo Sounds contribute to the musical education of local youth and elderly as well as the catering for the group’s high teas.

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