Three of Australia’s most revered musicians, Slava & Sharon Grigoryan and flutist Jane Rutter perform Baroque, South American and contemporary music in a concert that spans cultures, generations and genres.Â
Sharon, Slava and Jane are an example of great synergy, resulting in music that connects deeply with the listener. From standard flute, guitar and cello duo & trio works by Handel, Vivaldi, Granados and Piazzolla to creations by contemporary composers, the concert features arrangements which shine a new light on familiar favourites.
Flute player Jane Rutter has several No#1 albums and ARIA (Australian Grammy) nominations under her belt. This legendary Australian Flautist is Artistic Director of Live at Lunch. Beautiful flute music, flute songs and relaxing flute music.Â
Join us at Hume Conservatorium for this incredible performance by this outstanding trio!
Tickets
Adult: $55
Concession: $48
Hume Con Student: $40
Goulburn Club Member: $40
Saturday, 7 June at 7pm
Old Ceramics Hall, Hume Conservatorium
About the Artists
Jane Rutter
Internationally-acclaimed concert soloist Australian-French flutist Jane Rutter, was recently knighted by France (Chevalier des Arts et Lettres). She is an expert in the French Flute School and is a major influence in classical music. Known for her onstage warmth, she brilliantly conveys passion, sparkling technique and elegance of expression through her beautiful flute playing.
 A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Music, Jane is an award-winning TV presenter and multi-ARIA (Australian Grammy) nominee who has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including The Australian Chamber Orchestra, and on the same bill as Pavarotti, Carreras, The Manhattan Transfer, Tina Arena, Tommy Emmanuel, Michael Crawford, Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, Teddy Tahu-Rhodes, Peter Cousens and others.Â
An Australia Day Ambassador and one of Who Magazine’s 30 Most Beautiful People, in 2007 Limelight Magazine depicted her as a leading female influence in the world of Classical Music. Jane has been featured on 60 Minutes, in Vogue Magazine, and is a household name in Australia. She is in demand as an Artistic Director and composer. Her Live at Lunch series at The Concourse, Chatswood is one of Australia’s most successful lunch time concert series.   Jane was awarded a French Government scholarship to study in Paris with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion, and has lectured Flute, Performance pedagogy and Chamber Music at her Alma Mater, Sydney University’s The Sydney Conservatorium of Music.Â
Jane performs regularly in Paris and around the world: from Recital Halls to the Sydney Opera House, from Music Festivals to Theatre and Cabaret venues. Her early Chamber Jazz group, POSH, (reformed as Third Culture World Chamber Music) was a forerunner of Yoyo Ma’s the Silk Road Project. The Australian Elizabethan Trust awarded Ms Rutter a fellowship grant that culminated in a DVD and soundtrack album, An Australian In Paris which topped the Classical charts in Australia.
From her first iconic album, Nocturnes and Preludes for Flute, Jane’s sublime flute playing has seen a further 23 further best- selling albums released including: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, French Kiss, Flute Spirit: Dreams and Improvisations and her latest Evening Stars. Renowned for her relaxed onstage charm and musical imagination, prepare yourself for superb entertainment and the finest classical music from flutist Jane Rutter!
Slava Grigoryan
Slava Grigoryan is an award-winning classical guitarist of Armenian descent. He was born in Kazakhstan in 1976, and emigrated with his violinist parents Eduard and Irina Grigoryan and his younger brother Leonard to Melbourne, Australia. Slava and Leonard (aka the Grigoryan Brothers) began their guitar studies at young ages with their father. Slava began playing professionally at 12. He furthered his classical studies through secondary school and college at Victorian Academy of the Arts, and achieved renown as the youngest performer ever to win the Tokyo International Classical Guitar Competition in 1993.Â
As a result, he was offered a recording contract by Sony. His debut for the label, Spirit of Spain, appeared in 1995, followed by Dance of the Angel in 1998 and Another Night in London in 1999. In 2003, he moved over to ABC Classics (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and recorded Sonatas & Fantasies, and the first of the Grigoryan Brothers albums, Play. Slava toured incessantly with his brother and as a featured soloist with orchestras as well as playing solo concerts. In 2004, the Grigoryan Brothers released the Rodrigo Guitar Concertos.Â
Slava followed it with Afterimage, The Music of Shaun Rigney. He followed it with Continental Shift, a collaboration with singer, songwriter, and producer Al Slavik in 2005. That same year, he approached improvising jazz guitarists Wolfgang Muthspiel and Ralph Towner about a collaborative tour. Long an admirer of both men, he understood that they were both rooted in classical tradition.Â
They presented a show that featured each member as a soloist, then in duets and finally as a trio. The group has remained a going concern. In 2006, Slava released another solo album, Shadow Dances, followed by Debussy, Mompou & De Falla: Impressions, by the Grigoryan Brothers. In 2007, Slava collaborated in the studio with Towner and Muthspiel. The resulting album, From a Dream was issued in 2008 on Which Way Music (and in 2009 re-released on Muthspiel‘s Material label).Â
The same year, Slava’s Baroque Guitar Concertos was released by ABC Classics. Distance, a Grigoryan Brothers recording from 2009, was the brothers’ first to depart from the classical repertoire. Backed by guests on various strings, bass, and drums, the program was composed of modern jazz tunes written by, among others, Towner and Muthspiel. In 2011, Band of Brothers, a diverse recording between the Grigoryans and another set of siblings, Joseph & James Tawadros, was followed by a thematic recording, The Seasons, in 2012.Â
That same year Towner brought Slava and Muthspiel together in a studio in Lugano, Switzerland with producer Manfred Eicher. The sessions resulted in Travel Guide, which was released by ECM in October of 2013.
Sharon Grigoryan
Based in Adelaide, Sharon Grigoryan was the cellist with the Australian String Quartet from 2013-2020. As part of that group she has collaborated with artists such as the Goldner and Tinalley Quartets, Pieter Wispelwei, Sara Macliver, Slava Grigoryan, Pepe Romero, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Katie Noonan, Konstantin Shamray, Caroline Almonte, and the Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmanian and West Australian Symphony Orchestras.Â
Born in Melbourne, Sharon studied at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) under David Berlin, Philip Green, and Howard Penny. From 2008-2012 Sharon held a position with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and in 2011 Sharon was a recipient of the MSO Friends’ Travel Scholarship which took her to Berlin to study with Professor Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Nicolas Alsteadt. Whilst there she performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Spira Mirabilis Chamber Orchestra.Â
An avid chamber musician, Sharon performed in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Players series many times, and in 2009 she formed the Hopkins String Quartet. In the same year, she was accepted into the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Emerging Artists program and has toured extensively with the ACO both nationally and abroad since then. Sharon was also made a Core Player of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra in 2012.Â
Sharon has performed as a guest with the Australia Ensemble and Australian World Orchestra, and has been invited to be guest principal cellist with the Melbourne, Adelaide, and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras. Sharon was the Artistic Director of the “Barossa, Baroque and Beyond” music festival from 2013-2021. In 2019 Sharon curated a chamber music series, “Live at the Quartet Bar” as part of the Adelaide Festival Centre, and made her debut as a radio presenter on ABC Classic.Â
Apart from teaching the cello privately, Sharon has tutored ensembles such as the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra, is on staff at the University of Adelaide, and been a guest chamber music tutor at ANAM and the University of Melbourne.
Sharon formed the cello/guitar duo with husband Slava Grigoryan in 2014, and this has been a particularly joyful musical and personal collaboration for her. She is currently on contract as acting Associate Principal Cello of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
   
  