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2008 Concert Series
'A Musical Romance'
Sat 26 July 2008, 7:30pm Bathurst Memorial Entertianment Centre
Sun 27 July 2008, 3pm Dubbo Civic Centre
Conductors:
Maestro Leonard Camplin CD
Fiona Thompson (Musical Director)
DVDs of this performance can be ordered via the Orchestral Manager. Please contact Sarah Conolan for details. |
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2008 Season Program 'A Musical Romance'
2008 Season kindly supported by: Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, Reliance Credit Union, Bathurst Regional Council, Dubbo City Council
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 MEDIA RELEASE 12 June 2008
Macquarie Philharmonia, Australia’s Inland Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce its 2008 Season ‘A Musical Romance’. Featuring works by popular composers such as Bizet, Rachmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov, the 2008 Season brings grand orchestral music to the Central West.
Performances in Bathurst and Dubbo on the 26th and 27th July respectively give regional audiences a rare opportunity to hear extracts from the fiendishly difficult and famous Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto and beautiful French folk songs accompanied by a full symphony orchestra.
Piano soloist Elena Day-Hakker and soprano Helen Barnett bring years of performance experience and skill to the 2008 Season. The 2008 Season is the orchestra’s most spectacular program yet.
The Macquarie Philharmonia is supported by many generous businesses and individuals from the Blue Mountains, Sydney and the Central West. The 2008 Season is supported by the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation, Reliance Credit Union, Bathurst Regional Council and Dubbo City Council. For more information about the 2008 Season, contact the Orchestral Manager directly on 0424 6121 38.
picture: Sarah Conolan
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 MEDIA RELEASE 10 July 2008
Macquarie Philharmonia’s upcoming 2008 Season ‘A Musical Romance’ features Bathurst based pianist Elena Day-Hakker and Orange resident, soprano Helen Barnett. The orchestra and both soloists will perform under the expert direction of conductor Maestro Leonard Camplin from Canada, and musical director Fiona Thompson.
The orchestra, established five years ago by Ron & Stephanie Camplin annually brings together amateur, student and many professional musicians from the Blue Mountains and Central West. ‘Australia’s Inland Symphony Orchestra’ enables these musicians and local audiences to have rare opportunities to perform and enjoy large orchestral works.
This Season, Elena Day-Hakker will perform the first movement of the hugely famous Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto on the beautiful pianos at Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre and Dubbo Civic Centre. Helen Barnett will sing a selection of beautiful French folk songs arranged for voice and orchestra by little known French composer Joseph Canteloube.
Other well known composers featured in this year’s season include Bizet, Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky. Performances 26 July 7:30pm Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre and 27 July 3pm Dubbo Civic Centre. For more information call the orchestral manager directly on 0424 6121 38.
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 BIOGRAPHY
Helen Barnett
Soprano
Born and raised on a farm at Narromine in central western NSW, Soprano Helen Barnett is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a Diploma of Opera and Graduate Diploma of Music (Opera), finishing top of her postgraduate year with a High Distinction. She has also gained the Fellowship in Music from the AMEB (The AMEB’s highest award).
Helen has won many vocal competitions throughout NSW, and has been selected as a
semi-finalist and finalist in numerous national competitions. Most notably she has been a winner of the Elizabeth Todd Soprano Award (twice), runner-up in the Opera and Arts Support group vocal scholarship, semi-finalist in the McDonald’s Operatic Aria (three times), and finalist in the Joan Sutherland society scholarship (twice), all run by the McDonald’s Performing Arts Challenge. Helen was a semi-finalist (2002) and finalist (2003) in the 2MBS-FM Young Performer of the Year broadcasting live in NSW, and was a semi-finalist in the Mietta Song Recital Award in Melbourne in 2004.
Helen has also competed successfully at numerous regional eisteddfodau, winning the Aria competitions in Muswellbrook (3 times), Shoalhaven, Orange, Bathurst, Dubbo (twice) and Cowra. In January 2008 Helen was the recipient of a National Coucnil of Women Australia Day Award for her achievements as a student and performer of Music.
Helen has performed extensively throughout Sydney and NSW in Recital, Opera, Oratorio and Musical Theatre. Her roles include the First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote , Giulietta in excerpts of Bellini’s I Capuleti ed i Montecchi and Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. From July to Ocotber 2004 Helen sang in the chorus of Opera Australia’s Production of Der Rosenkavalier. Helen has sung the Soprano solos in numerous Oratorios’ including Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, The Lord Nelson Mass, Handel’s 9th Chandos Anthem, Berlioz’s Childhood of Christ, Mozarts’ Mass in C Minor, and Hanel’s Messiah. In 2001 Helen sang in the chorus and coro piccolo of the Australian Ballets’ version of Faures’ Requiem and Orffs’ Carmina Burana. Most recently Helen has performed the roles of Emma in Jekyll and Hyde and Griddlebone in Cats, both for the Orange Theatre Company for which she has received nominations in the CAT Awards for both roles, and received a CAT award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (for Jekyll and Hyde). Helen also performs annually at Belgravia Vineyards Opera in the Vines, an event that is Part of Orange’s FOOD Week programme.
Helen has recently recorded a recital for the “Rising Stars” Programme on ABC Classic FM which was broadcast in June. She is in the process of recording a CD with David Miller, which she hopes will be released later in 2008.
Upcoming concerts include a performance with Students from the Sydney Conservatoirum of Music in Narromine on the 25th June, 4 of the Songs of the Auvergne with the Macquarie Philharmonia on the 26th and 27th July in Bathurst and Dubbo, and a Spring Recital at Brangayne Winery in Orange on Saturday 25th October.
Helen is married to Mark Hodges, and they have 2 gorgeous children – Charlie 4, and Mimi 2.
picture: Renaissance Photography
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 BIOGRAPHY
Leonard Camplin
Conductor
Maestro Leonard Camplin studied at London’s Guildhall School of Music and received private tuition in Essen and Berlin. He was appointed music director of the Okanagan Symphony in 1964 and held this position until 1996. For his outstanding leadership he was appointed the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate.
A Fellow of England’s Trinity College of Music, Leonard has conducted throughout Europe, Canada, United States and the Far East.
He has conducted in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Prince Phillip, Dr. Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury, President L. B. Johnson and Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
Maestro Camplin possesses the Canadian Decoration and bar, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal and Canada’s 125th Anniversary Commemorative Medal.
Leonard Camplin is the founder and music director of the Burnaby Symphony Orchestra, and the Kelowna Pops Orchestra. He has been applauded by a number of world-class musicians including Wilfrid Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera, John Hollingsworth of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Canada’s International contralto, Maureen Forrester.
Many leading Canadian and International artists have performed under Camplin’s baton. For distinguished services to music, the International Biographical Institute, Cambridge, England, has awarded Maestro Leonard Camplin a plaque of recognition.
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 BIOGRAPHY
Elena Day Hakker
Piano
Elena began her studies in Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union at 10 years of age, entering the Moscow State Music College of 'Gnessins', the most respected college of music in Russia.
After gaining a 'Specialist Diploma' with Distinction' in Piano and then furthered her studies at the Siberian Academy of Music and Theatre, there gaining a 'Higher Education Degree in Instrumental Music Performance'. Her post-graduate work began at the State Music School in Krasnoyarsk Siberia as a teacher of piano and as accompanist. Elena was also the ballet concert master/accompanist for the Siberian State Opera and Ballet Theatre of Krasnoyarsk (2000 -2003).
Elena moved to Australia in 2003 and since then she has established herself as both a performer, teacher and business woman in Bathurst NSW. Her performances have included recitals with numerous ensembles and also as a soloist. Elena has performed in many successful fundraising concerts throughout the region, including events for the Assumption School and Cathedral Bells in Bathurst.
Elena has also performed for Arts out West, Mitchell Conservatorium’s Autumn Series and with the Macquarie Philharmonia in the 2007 ‘Carnival of the Animals’ Season at Bathurst, Cowra and Dubbo. In 2003 Elena started teaching at the Mitchell Conservatorium in Bathurst and Lithgow.
Elena and Raymond Day-Hakker run a piano showroom in George St Bathurst and have two lovely children, Peter 12, and Nadia 3.
Elena Day-Hakker will perform the first movement of the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No2 with the Macquarie Philharmonia this weekend, on 26th Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre at 7:30pm and 27th at Dubbo Civic Centre at 3pm. Tickets at the door. For more information call the orchestral manager on 0424 6121 38.
Picture: Ken Ball
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