SYDNEY ART QUARTET
Colour Music
Sunday, November 2nd
Prepare yourself for an excursion into the world of “colour music” with a series of world premieres by Sydney based composer Nicholas Vines, juxtaposed against Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2, “Fifths” (1797) and his Piano Trio No. 34 in B-Flat Major, Op. 36 No. 3 (1794), and one of the pioneers of modern Australian painting, Roy de Maistre.
These performances will be introduced by Steven Miller, the former head of the National Art Archive at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, who will be joined on the podium by composer Nicholas Vines to discuss art, music and composition.
De Maistre was fascinated with colour therapy administered to shell-shocked soldiers by putting them in rooms painted in soothing colour combinations. He developed his theory of colour harmonisation based on the relationship between colours of the spectrum and notes of the musical scale and also the manner in which the colours within a room could impact upon the human psyche.
De Maistre created a selection of notional colour experiments including Colour chart, c. 1919, Colour keyboard, c. 1919, a set of colour discs, scales and wheels, produced between 1917 and 1919, and (Colour music), c. 1934, a painted piano roll.
Masterclass
Please join us for a free educational masterclass directed by composer Nicholas Vines into aspects of composition and writing for string quartet.
If you have purchased a ticket, you are welcome to stay following the 2pm performance or come early to the 5pm performance.
We do however kindly ask you to please register your interest for the masterclass using the link below so we have an idea of numbers.