A recital to celebrate the launch of the James Ainslie Recital Hall, a new music venue being developed for the Canberra Music Community. It will also be the first concert on the recently purchased concert grand piano for the Ainslie Arts Centre, and the debut of a new ensemble, The Divine Spark, featuring Canberra International Music Festival Artistic Director Chris Latham and CIMF artist Tamara Anna Cislowska performing four major premieres by iconic creators of our time. 

 

The concert will feature the premieres of the Sergei Rachmaninov Cello Sonata and Elena Kats-Chernin Blue Silence arranged for Violin and Piano by Chris Latham and Tamara Anna Cislowska. We will also continue our engagement with the music of Henryk Gorecki with the Australian premiere of his A Little Fantasia, written for the Hannover International Violin Competition and dedicated to the great 19th Century virtuoso Joseph Joachim. We will also introduce the astounding music of Giya Kancheli, the great Georgian composer, whose Time...and again came out of a period of great contradictions, doubts,  losses, and novel and unfamiliar feelings. He prefaced this searing work with a quote from the Bible – “what I write is true. God knows I am not lying”.