Homophonic! presents 'Moonlite'
Featuring The Consort of Melbourne with Viola and Percussion
Saturday 26 July 2025, 7:00pm
'Moonlite' by Wally Gunn (Music) and Maria Zajkowski (Words), featuring The Consort of Melbourne.
'Moonlite' tells the true-crime queer love story of the 19th-century Australian bushranger Andrew George Scott, in the form of a 90-minute oratorio for voices, percussion and viola.
Winner of the Albert Maggs composition prize, this is a powerful work that effortlessly transcends musical genres to paint a picture of Victoria's own star-crossed lovers, set uniquely in our Gold-rush-era past.
Musicians: Katherine Norman (Soprano), Kristy Biber (Soprano), Elspeth Bawden (Soprano), Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), Jack Jordan (Tenor), Lachlan McDonald (Baritone), Phoebe Green (Viola), Louise Devenish (Percussion), Kaylie Melville (Percussion), Hamish Upton (Percussion), Zela Papageorgiou (Percussion). Directed by Miranda Hill and Steven Hodgson.
Presented by Homophonic! and the City of Yarra.
Homophonic! is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Homophonic! presents 'Moonlite'
Featuring The Consort of Melbourne with Viola and Percussion
Saturday 23 August 2025, 3:00pm
Shepparton
'Moonlite' by Wally Gunn (Music) and Maria Zajkowski (Words), featuring The Consort of Melbourne.
'Moonlite' tells the true-crime queer love story of the 19th-century Australian bushranger Andrew George Scott, in the form of a 90-minute oratorio for voices, percussion and viola.
Winner of the Albert Maggs composition prize, this is a powerful work that effortlessly transcends musical genres to paint a picture of Victoria's own star-crossed lovers, set uniquely in our Gold-rush-era past.
Musicians: Katherine Norman (Soprano), Kristy Biber (Soprano), Elspeth Bawden (Soprano), Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), Jack Jordan (Tenor), Lachlan McDonald (Baritone), Phoebe Green (Viola), Louise Devenish (Percussion), Kaylie Melville (Percussion), Hamish Upton (Percussion), Zela Papageorgiou (Percussion). Directed by Miranda Hill and Steven Hodgson.
Presented by Homophonic!
Homophonic! is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Homophonic! presents 'Moonlite'
Featuring The Consort of Melbourne with Viola and Percussion
Sunday 31 August 2025, 3:00pm
Ballarat Performing Arts Centre, 501-503 Neil St, Soldiers Hill , Ballarat
'Moonlite' by Wally Gunn (Music) and Maria Zajkowski (Words), featuring The Consort of Melbourne.
'Moonlite' tells the true-crime queer love story of the 19th-century Australian bushranger Andrew George Scott, in the form of a 90-minute oratorio for voices, percussion and viola.
Winner of the Albert Maggs composition prize, this is a powerful work that effortlessly transcends musical genres to paint a picture of Victoria's own star-crossed lovers, set uniquely in our Gold-rush-era past.
Musicians: Katherine Norman (Soprano), Kristy Biber (Soprano), Elspeth Bawden (Soprano), Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), Jack Jordan (Tenor), Lachlan McDonald (Baritone), Phoebe Green (Viola), Louise Devenish (Percussion), Kaylie Melville (Percussion), Hamish Upton (Percussion), Zela Papageorgiou (Percussion). Directed by Miranda Hill and Steven Hodgson.
Presented by Homophonic! and The City of Ballarat
Homophonic! is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Homophonic! presents 'Moonlite'
Featuring The Consort of Melbourne with Viola and Percussion
Saturday 11 October 2025, 3:30pm
Reardon Theatre, 35 Bank St, Port Fairy
'Moonlite' by Wally Gunn (Music) and Maria Zajkowski (Words), featuring The Consort of Melbourne.
'Moonlite' tells the true-crime queer love story of the 19th-century Australian bushranger Andrew George Scott, in the form of a 90-minute oratorio for voices, percussion and viola.
Winner of the Albert Maggs composition prize, this is a powerful work that effortlessly transcends musical genres to paint a picture of Victoria's own star-crossed lovers, set uniquely in our Gold-rush-era past.
Musicians: Katherine Norman (Soprano), Kristy Biber (Soprano), Elspeth Bawden (Soprano), Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), Jack Jordan (Tenor), Lachlan McDonald (Baritone), Phoebe Green (Viola), Louise Devenish (Percussion), Kaylie Melville (Percussion), Hamish Upton (Percussion), Zela Papageorgiou (Percussion). Directed by Miranda Hill and Steven Hodgson.
Homophonic! is assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Closing Gala: Eva
An Epic Story of Survival
Sunday 12 October 2025, 3:30pm
Reardon Theatre, 35 Bank St, Port Fairy
The 2025 Closing Gala features a gleaming array of soloists, the PFSMF Chamber Orchestra, The Consort of Melbourne, Vox Plexus, Port Fairy schoolchildren, and our combined Southwest Victorian PFSMF chorus, led by Festival Co-Directors Monica Curro and Stefan Cassomenos, for the world premiere of Eva – the dramatic telling of the Southwest Victorian tale of the Loch Ard shipwreck of 1878, of which there were only two survivors, passenger Eva Carmichael and midshipman Thomas Pearce.
Based on a meticulously researched and masterfully written libretto by Mary-Jane Gething, this new work composed by Stefan Cassomenos grapples with Eva’s unthinkable story of survival, her fragile relationship with fate and destiny, and her symphony of emotions in the immediate aftermath and the events that followed. Presented as a semi-staged opera-in-concert, Eva is the compositional embodiment of something deeply and indescribably Australian, interwoven throughout with the universal themes and questions that form the human experience.
Our whirlwind 2025 tour of the mosaic of human heritage, having taken us to so many different times and places, reaches its powerful conclusion right here in Southwest Victoria, as we come together on one shared stage to tell an epic story of our very own.
The Consort of Melbourne features the voices of: Katherine Norman (Soprano), Kristy Biber (Soprano), Elspeth Bawden (Soprano), Timothy Reynolds (Tenor), Jack Jordan (Tenor) and Lachlan McDonald (Baritone).
*Dedicated by the librettist to her late husband, Joseph Sambrook.
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