The Coal Valley Chamber Music Festival
 The festival will begin with a concert of Baroque music at 7pm on Friday February 5 in the lovely acoustic of Meadowbank Estate, a picturesque vineyard just out of Richmond. The program includes JS Bach's Cantata No 199, featuring the beautiful voice of well-known Tasmanian soprano Jane Edwards, and Vivaldi's dynamic Concerto for Oboe and Strings in F major with soloist David Nuttall, Principal Oboe of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
The second concert of the festival will take place at 11am on Saturday February 6 in historic St Luke's Church in Richmond village. The Trigon Ensemble will present a program of delightful string trios including Schubert's famous trio in Bb major, a trio by French composer Jean Françaix and Leo Weiner's trio in G minor.
 The Trigon Ensemble is also very much a family affair. Violinist Barbara Jane Gilby is well known to Hobart audiences as past concertmaster of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and soloist with the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players on their ARIA award-winning recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Barbara Jane is currently concertmaster of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra her sister Janet Rutherford is Principal Viola with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Janet's husband, Brett Rutherford is also a cellist in the TSO.
The third concert will take place at 11am on Sunday February 7 in the barn of the historic grand house 'Belmont' overlooking Richmond village. This venue is the home of Pooley Wines. Ticket prices for this concert include a light gourmet lunch in the courtyard.
 This concert, 'A Tribute to Brubeck', features jazz, which can be considered the chamber music of the 20th century. No group exemplified the intimate chamber music style of jazz more than the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The ensemble will be led by Fred Bradshaw, a great alto sax player in the style of the legendary Paul Desmond, long-time member of the Brubeck Quartet. The other performers in the quartet are Daniel Sulzberger (piano), Steve Martin (bass) and Eric Johnstone (drums).
On Monday February 8 at 7pm the Festival concludes with a concert of great Romantic music for string ensemble at Meadowbank Estate. Considered to be one of the period's finest compositions for strings, Tchaikovsky's 'Serenade for Strings' will be featured, along with the Elgar's beautiful 'Elegy' and the 'Little Suite for Strings' by Scandinavian Romantic master Carl Nielsen.
The performers
Baroque Splendor: Elinor Levy, Rohana Brown, Anthea Hetherington, Laura Thompson (violins); Rodney McDonald (viola); Dale Brown (cello); Stephen Martin (double bass); David Nuttall (oboe); Jane Edwards (soprano).
String Trio players: The Trigon Ensemble.
Jazz in the Barn players: Fred Bradshaw (alto sax); Daniel Sulzberger (piano); Stephen Martin (double bass); Eric Johnstone (drums).
Romantic Strings players: Elinor Levy, Rohana Brown, Anthea Hetherington, Laura Thompson (violins); Rodney McDonald, Anna Larsen (violas); Dale Brown (cello); Stephen Martin (double bass).
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