Van Diemen’s Band

Single tickets on sale Tuesday 11 January 2022, 9am AEDT

Tasmanian Baroque ensemble Van Diemen’s Band invites you to explore the historic borderlands of Europe on their national tour with Musica Viva Australia. For centuries, generations of musicians wrote dances and masses, symphonies and quartets, as their homelands changed ownership under their feet. Or their nations remained steadfast, allowing the most magical cultural overlaps at the border fringes.

Through composers such as Samuel Scheidt and Dietrich Becker, you will hear the trials of battle — loss, regret, resentment — and, at long last, healing. Listen to composers who were touched by the Thirty Years’ War within the Holy Roman Empire, their countries crumbling around them.

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (Iceland) and Donald Nicolson (Australia) are living composers who will bring you closer to our time. Just as Van Diemen’s Band invites instrumental guests from across Australia’s state borders, these composers remind us how we’re still united through music — no matter what borders lie between us.

"Moving from lament to humour and virtuosity with unanimity, creating a kaleidoscope of emotions that tugged the heartstrings." — Limelight

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• Program

  'Borderlands'

  Becker

  Sonata No. 5 in F Major (1674)

  Scheidt

  Galliard Battaglia (1621)

  Becker

  Paduan

  Sainte-Colombe

  Les Pleurs

  Scheidt

  Courant

  Erlebach

  Courant

  Anon

  Sonata Jucunda

  Biber

  Ciacona from Mensa Sonora (1680)

  Rosenmüller

  Sonata No. 9 in D Major (1682)

  Nicolson

  New work (2022)

  Albinoni

  Sonata No. 5 in C Major (1700)(1798)

  Sigfúsdóttir

  Clockworking (2013)

  Muffat

  Sonata in D Major (1677)

• Artists

  Julia Fredersdorff

  Artistic director & violin

  Simone Slattery

  Violin & recorder

  Lizzy Welsh

  Viola

  Laura Vaughan

  Bass viol

  Anton Baba

  Bass Viol & cello

  Donald Nicolson

  Harpsichord & organ