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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

Sat 26 Sept 2015, 3.00 p.m.Sun 27 Sept 2015, 2.30 p.m. & 4.30 p.m.

Malaysian Philharmonic OrchestraCiarán McAuley, conductor

Dandi Productions, presenter

PROGRAMME PELÉCIS Jack and the Beanstalk

The concert will last approximately 60 minutes without an interval

Ciarán McAuley is the Resident Conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. He is a former assistant conductor to Kiel Opera and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and has held conducting fellowships at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and at Tanglewood Music Festival.

He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Clark Rundell, at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with Johannes Schlaefli and he continued his education thereafter through Deutsche Dirigentenforum.

He has served as assistant conductor to Michael Francis and Donald Runnicles and has participated in masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and David Zinman, conducting ensembles the likes of WDR Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the RSNO.

He has premiered works by Detlef Glanert and Marco Stroppa, and has workshopped new commissions for BBC Scottish and Norrköping Symphony Orchestras. He is a former recipient of the Ricordi Conducting Prize and Bryden Thomson Trust Award and was a finalist and prize winner in the 2015 German Conductor Prize.

Recent concert engagements have led him to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jenaer Philharmonic and Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin. Highlights of the current season include performances celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius and Nielsen and the 175th anniversary of Adam´s ballet Giselle.

CIARÁN MCAULEYConductor

BIOGRAPHIES

Dandi Productions has been creating and touring Symphony Orchestra Concerts for Young Audiences since 1997. The company produced the North American premieres of three of Roald Dahl’s fully-orchestrated concert-stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; and produced the world premieres of three more original concerts: The Twins and the Monster; The Mysterious Maestro and The Music of Harry Potter.

For the creation of each concert, the company has brought together the talents of master puppeteers The Old Trout Puppet Workshop: award-winning authors Tololwa Mollel & Judd Palmer (Governor-General’s Awards for Young Fiction); world-class composers John Estacio (National Arts Centre Award for Composers) and Dave Pierce (Grammy Award for Musical Direction of the 2010 Olympics); as well as skilled designers and top-tier actors.

The company now has a global audience stretching from Manchester, UK to Perth, Australia; and from Singapore to The Hollywood Bowl.

BIOGRAPHIES

DANDIPRODUCTIONS

http://www.dandiproductions.com

Braden has been working in professional theatre for the last ten years. During the last decade he has appeared in over 50 productions at various theatres all over Alberta. In 2006 he joined the Downstage Creation Ensemble, an award winning theatre group dedicated to creating politically engaged theatre productions. Braden has been nominated for eight Betty Mitchell Awards (Calgary's professional theatre awards), four for his work as a performer and four for playwriting. Most recently he was nominated for his performances in The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Ghost River) and My Family and Other Endangered Species (Downstage). Braden wrote My Family and Other Endangered Species with longtime collaborator Ellen Close and it was nominated for both a Betty Mitchell and a Calgary Critics Award for Best New Play.

Artistic Producer Doug McKeag brings a wealth of theatrical and musical experience to his concert creations. He has appeared in well over a hundred live dramas and musicals, and has toured in Young Audience productions around the globe. Favourite theatre roles include: God of Carnage; Follies; Enron; The Drowsy Chaperone; Arcadia; Glengarry Glen Ross; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In 2012 he directed the chamber opera Requiem for a Lost Girl in New York City with a 40-member cast and orchestra. He won an award for Outstanding Performance for his portrayal of an early-onset Parkinson’s patient in The Alan Parkinson’s Project. In 2016 he will appear in the North American Premiere of Chimerica.

DOUG MCKEAG

BRADEN GRIFFITHS

BIOGRAPHIES

Kendra is a graduate of the Professional Program at the School of Contemporary Dancers. Having grown up in a family of artistic professionals, Kendra is no stranger to the performing arts. As a skilled modern dancer she has choreographed and toured extensively with the School of Contemporary Dancers; and performed with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Family Concerts and in a special commission of The Rite of Spring.She is also a respected photographer and singer, and has worked as a backup vocalist on projects with Universal Music and on several Juno Award-winning albums by children’s entertainer Fred Penner. Kendra has performed in Canada and the US and is thrilled to be making her Dandi Productions debut.

ODETTE HEYN

KENDRA PENNER

BIOGRAPHIES

Odette brings 30 years of experience to the stage. As a performer, director and master teacher, her work has been seen across Canada and internationally. Performance credits include the Festival of Canadian Modern Dance, the Kuan Du Arts Festival Taipei, the Rachel Browne Memorial Tour, the Canada Dance Festival and the 1988 Olympics Danscene (Calgary). Odette’s choreography has been commissioned by the Vancouver and Edmonton Symphonies, the Calgary Philharmonic, and most recently by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, for whom she choreographed La Noche de los Mayas and The Rite of Spring. She recently choreographed Requiem for a Lost Girl and Mata Hari for the New York Musical Theatre Festival; and Amahl and the Night Visitors for The Little Opera Company. As the founding Artistic Director of Sundance Children’s Dance Theatre and of the Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers Odette’s commitment to young audiences has been a lifelong passion. In 2014 the City of Winnipeg honoured Odette for her lifelong contributions to Canada’s national arts community.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALKThe StoryOne of the best-known fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk is the story of a young boy, Jack, who lives with his widowed mother. Their only source of income is the milk from a cow but, when the cow stops producing milk, his mother tells Jack to take it to the market and sell it. On the way there, however, he meets an old man, who buys the cow in exchange for some ‘magic’ beans. When Jack returns home with beans instead of money, his mother becomes very angry. She throws the beans out the window and sends poor Jack to bed without his dinner.

As both Jack and his mother are sleeping, the beans grow into a gigantic beanstalk that soars up into the clouds. Curious, Jack climbs the beanstalk and arrives at a land high in the sky. While exploring the place, he discovers a castle that is the home of a giant. The giant’s wife lets him in and feeds him. Suddenly, the giant returns home and Jack is forced to hide. The giant, however, smells that a human is nearby and says: “Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman; be he alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread.” Unable to find Jack, however, the giant eats his meal and starts counting his money. When he falls asleep, Jack steals a bag of money and returns home.

Although he and his mother now have enough to live on, a curious Jack decides to return to the giant’s castle. There, he learns about the giant’s other treasures and decides to steal them when the giant is sleeping. The first is a goose that lays golden eggs and the other is a harp that plays by itself. While stealing the harp, however, the giant wakes up and chases Jack down the beanstalk. When he arrives home, Jack asks his mother for an axe and chops down the beanstalk. The giant, who is climbing down the beanstalk, then falls to his death. Jack and his mother lived happily ever after with all the riches that he stole from the giant.

The MusicThe version of Jack and the Beanstalk you hear today is based on a rhyme written by Roald Dahl and published in his book, Revolting Rhymes. It is similar to the original version – there is still the boy, Jack, a cow, the beanstalk and the giant, but it is funnier and a bit shocking. The performance you see today was first staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London in December 1996. The music is written by the Latvian composer, Georgs Pelécis, while the text has been adapted by Donald Sturrock. It is performed by a cast of four actors, puppets and a 60-foot beanstalk that rises from the stage to the ceiling, all supported by dramatic music performed by the orchestra.Concert notes: Christy Yoong

old.opera.lvGEORGS PELÉCIS

PROGRAMME NOTES

Note: Sectional string players are listed alphabetically and rotate within their sections. *Substitute / extra musician.

MALAYSIAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

PRINCIPAL CONDUCTORFabio Mechetti

RESIDENT CONDUCTORCiarán McAuley

fIRST vIOLINCo-ConcertmasterPeter DanišPrincipalMing GohCo-PrincipalZhenzhen LiangSub-PrincipalVira Nyezhentseva

Runa BaagöeMaho DanišMiroslav DanišEvgeny KaplanErgys KoniMartijn NoomenSherwin ThiaMarcel AndriesiiAi JinTan Ka Ming* Roxana Tudorache

SECOND vIOLINCo-PrincipalTimothy PetersAssistant PrincipalLuisa HyamsSub Principal*Barbora Kolarova

Catalina AlvarezChia-Nan HungAnastasia KiselevaStefan KocsisLing YunzhiIonut MazareanuTan Poh KimYanbo Zhao*Robert Kopelman

vIOLACo-PrincipalGábor MokányAssistant PrincipalAyako Oya

Fumiko DobrinovOng Lin KernCarol PendleburySun YuanThian AiwenFan RanEliza FluderJulia ParkMahmoud Hussein

CELLOCo-PrincipalCsaba KőrösAssistant PrincipalSteven RetallickSub-PrincipalAttila Pasztor

Gerald DavisJulie DessureaultLaurentiu GhermanTan Poh JooElizabeth Tan SuyinSejla SimonMátyás Major

DOUBLE BASSSection PrincipalWolfgang SteikeCo-PrincipalJoseph Pruessner

Raffael BietenhaderJun-Hee ChaeNaohisa FurusawaJohn KennedyFoo Yin HongAndreas Dehner

fLUTESection PrincipalHristo DobrinovCo-PrincipalYukako YamamotoSub-PrincipalRachel Jenkyns

PICCOLOPrincipalSonia Croucher

OBOESection PrincipalSimon EmesSub-PrincipalNiels Dittmann

COR ANGLAISPrincipalDenis Simonnet

CLARINETSection Principal*Gonzalo EstabanSub-PrincipalMatthew Larsen

BASS CLARINETPrincipalChris Bosco

BASSOONSection PrincipalAlexandar LenkovSub-PrincipalOrsolya Juhasz

CONTRABASSOONPrincipalVladimir Stoyanov

HORNSection PrincipalGrzegorz CurylaCo-PrincipalJames SchumacherSub-PrincipalsLaurence DaviesTodor PopstoyanovAssistant PrincipalSim Chee Ghee

TRUMPETCo-PrincipalWilliam TheisSub-PrincipalWilliam DayAssistant PrincipalJohn Bourque

TROMBONECo-PrincipalMarques YoungSub-PrincipalAnthony Wise

BASS TROMBONEPrincipalZachary Bond

TUBASection PrincipalBrett Stemple

TIMPANIMatthew Thomas

PERCUSSIONSection PrincipalMatthew PrendergastSub-PrincipalsDarryl LittmanMatthew Kantorski*Chun-Yu Tsai

HARPPrincipalTan Keng Hong

DEwAn FILhARMOnIk PETROnASChIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERNor Raina Yeong Abdullah

CEO’S OFFICEHanis Abdul Halim

BUSInESS & MARkETInGMAnAGEMEnTCarl Selvarajah

BUSInESS DEVELOPMEnTAt Ziafrizani Chek PaFadzleen FathyNurartikah IlyasKartini Ratna Sari Ahmat AdamNik Sara Hanis Mohd Sani

MARkETInG Yazmin Lim AbdullahHisham Abdul JalilNurul Hidayah AbasFarah Diyana IsmailNatrah Omar

CUSTOMER RELATIOnShIPMAnAGEMEnTAsmahan AbdullahFaizol Ramli

MUSIC TALEnT DEVELOPMEnT & MAnAGEMEnTSoraya Mansor

PLAnnInG, FInAnCE & ITAzwin Sofia Md. YusupMohd Hakimi Mohd RosliNorhisham Abd RahmanSiti Nur Illyani Ahmad Fadzillah

PROCUREMEnT & COnTRACTLogiswary RamanNorhaszilawati Zainudin

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MALAySIAn PhILhARMOnICORChESTRAChIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERNor Raina Yeong Abdullah

GEnERAL MAnAGERTimothy Tsukamoto

GEnERAL MAnAGER’S OFFICEAhmad Faris Ahmad Khairi

ORChESTRA MAnAGEMEnTShannon HoAmy Yu Mei LingTham Ying Hui

ARTISTIC ADMInISTRATIOnGan Hui Wan

MUSIC LIBRARy Khor Chin YangSharon Francis LihanOng Li-Huey

EDUCATIOn & OUTREAChShafrin SabriShireen Jasin Mokhtar

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