Flinders Quartet at St Peter's Anglican Church (Mornington) • 25 October 2025
SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER, 2.30PM
(approx. 2-hour concert including interval)
St. Peter’s Anglican Church
3 Queen St, Mornington VIC 3931 (map)
DEBORAH CHEETHAM FRAILLON “Bungaree” *
(approx. 2-hour concert including interval)
St. Peter’s Anglican Church
3 Queen St, Mornington VIC 3931 (map)
DEBORAH CHEETHAM FRAILLON “Bungaree” *
BRYONY MARKS “Australia Fair? Volume I: The Australian Dream”
ANTONIN DVORAK String Quartet No.14 in A flat Op.105
* Commissioned by Flinders Quartet with support from Andrew Dixon, in memory of Jean and John Dixon
As Flinders Quartet celebrates their 25th anniversary, they reflect on their identity as an Australian chamber ensemble, curating a concert program of works in which the composers were likely pondering similar questions: who are we, who were we, and who do we want to be?
Flinders Quartet revisit’s Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s powerful and evocative string quartet, Bungaree, first premiered in 2020. Bungaree is a figure who should be an Australian household name, and thanks to Deborah, he is now part of Flinders Quartet idea of Australia’s, and their own, identity. Australia Fair? by Bryony Marks asks us to think about very important and fundamental questions about identity. And Dvorak wrote his last chamber work, the A flat major string quartet, at the very end of his time in America. Although he was inspired by the lush prairies and woods he was introduced to there, his musical identity was still so connected to his love of the landscape of his homeland, the Czech Republic.
