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 well known Sydney based composer, Nicholas Vines, juxtaposed against Haydn’s String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2, “Fifths” (1797) and 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 the unusual colour therapy administered to shell-shocked soldiers and in collaboration with Adrien Verbrugghen, the Conservatorium director’s son, de Maistre developed a speculative theory of ‘colour-music’, posing the intrinsic connections between colours of the spectrum and the musical scale.

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, to be directed by composer Nicholas Vines, into aspects of composition and writing for string quartet.

You are welcome to stay following the 2pm performance or come early to the 5pm performance.

We ask you to please register your interest for the masterclass using the link below so we have an idea of numbers.