Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

French horn concerto treat

The energetic and enthusiastic French Horn student from the Queensland Conservatorium, Armin Terzer, (below) will be the soloist in the beautiful Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat K.417 with the Pacific Chamber Orchestra.

Antoni Bonetti, who will conduct the orchestra, is an extremely well known musician, educator and conductor from Brisbane. After more than 20 years at St Peter’s Lutheran College, Indooroopilly, Mr Bonetti is now Leading String teacher at Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Noosa.

The orchestra will also be performing Schubert’s Overture ‘In the Italian Style and Symphony No. 2 in B flat, D.125, Bruckner’s ‘Locus Iste’ (‘Made by God’) and Milhaud’s ‘Le Boeuf sur le toit’ Music for ballet by Jean Cocteau.

The concert with afternoon tea, is at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Buderim at 2pm on Sunday 15 November, 2009. Tickets at the door.

Adults $30, students 15 yrs and under, $15. Group bookings of 10 or more – $25 each. Ph: 5446 8128

Cornelius and Mojo at Palmwoods

Kicking of the November blues & roots lineup at the Palmwoods Hotel are The Delta Monarchs, making their debut here on November 7. A new band on the SE Queensland scene, the Monarchs are already creating waves and are looking to Palmwoods as a perfect tune-up for their Woodford debut.

Then on Saturday November 21, Palmwoods Got The Blues settles in for another large helping of world class Blues talent, cold beer, great steaks and free courtesy buses.

Pete Cornelius (right) was one of the highlights of the 2009 East coast Blues & Roots festival at Byron Bay over Easter. So popular in fact that it’s taken until now for his schedule to free up enough for Pete to get on a plane and bring the Palmwoods stage alive once again. Five acclaimed CD releases and numerous overseas tours all testament to this man’s talent.

To add to the gumbo, Mojo Webb also returns with his crack band tuned like V8 supercar and ready and raring to go. A Palmwoods regular despite his criss-crossing the country playing festivals and high profile gigs to an ever increasing fan base.

Wendy + 3 at Maleny Artwork

Wendy Nugent with her painting The Shape of Water

Wendy Nugent is exhibiting at Maleny Artworks Gallery during November together with Patricia Cale, Barry Smith and Fiona Dempster in an exhibition titled Four Artists: four worlds.

Working in acrylics on canvas, Wendy’s landscapes of Maleny have luminous qualities, vast horizons, precipitous edges and intersection with the sky. She also draws upon the symbolic forces of nature the earth, sun and moon- looking to the landscape as a source of spirituality.

Wendy’s landscapes are not strictly representational but are about a sense of place and they demonstrate her attempt to adjust the landscape to her own highly original style. The Maleny landscape has a raw and urgent energy of its own, and Wendy’s paintings grow from that earth.

Maleny Artworks, Upstairs – 50 Maple Street. Wed-Sun 10am-4pm. (Closed Monday and Tuesday)

Steven Lang discusses new novel

Award-winning local author Steven Lang will discuss his new book 88 Lines About 44 Women when he speaks at libraries across the Sunshine Coast in the coming months.

The eagerly awaited second book from Lang, which has been described as “complex and riveting”, gives an insight into the male psyche and its capacity for love and shame.

The book is narrated by Lawrence Martin, a sometime keyboard player in one of Australia’s most successful rock bands who enjoyed a plentiful share of fame, money and women. Two decades on, Martin is living as a virtual recluse in the north-west of Scotland, fighting memories from his turbulent past and the accident that killed his wife and ended his career.

Lang is the author of the award-wining novel An Accidental Terrorist, as well as the play A Strong Brown God, performed at the Metro Arts Theatre in Brisbane.

Sunshine Coast Libraries will host the author on the following dates:

Maroochydore Library – 11 November at 2.30pm

Noosa Library – 2 December at 6.30pm

Nambour Library – 16 February at 10am

Coolum Library – 16 February at 2.30pm

This is a free event but bookings are essential. Contact your local library to book your place. Visit www.library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au for more details.

Evgeniy Uhanov back to Parklands

Ukraine-born pianist, Evgeniy Uhanov re- visits Lucas Parklands in Montville on November 7 and 8 to play one of the most challenging pieces by Liszt for a concert pianist.

At Lucas Parklands Evgeniy will play the ‘infamous’ Liszt B minor sonata. This is a piece feared by most, played in public by few, difficult to memorise and, rarely performed in Queensland. Tickets are $40 each and include supper.

Contact Lucas Parklands, the Narrows, Montville.

Ph: 54 78 5667 or

E: lucasparklands@bigpond.com

Performing on November 28 is the delightful Ambre Hammond in the last concert for the year at Lucas Parklands. It will be a Christmas recital and this astonishing pianist is not to be missed. Ambre is both a concert pianist and a devotee of jazz.

She plays with James Morrison and has recorded her own CD of classics including Brahms, Chopin and Debussy. More details in next month’s edition of HT.

$2,500 Scholarship offered

The Caloundra Events Centre Scholarship for the Performing Arts is calling for applications for its 2010 bursary. The scholarship will assist deserving performing arts students with professional potential, who live and/or study in the Sunshine Coast Regional Council area. For full details on the scholarship including the selection criteria and application forms visit www.theeventscentre.com.au.

Half Gypsy … and not half bad!

The terrific triumvirate Diddakoi are appearing at the Upfront Club on November 26. This local threesome of violin, piano/drum and accordion trio, have an intriguing name that means ‘half gypsy’. They will entertain you with their special mix of traditional folk dances from Europe and the Middle East. From Klesmer haunting and frantic tunes to Celtic ballads, jigs and reels. There’s an 18th century French waltz , tangos, a touch of classical gypsy (J. Brahms), a whiff of Russian, even a Lebanese camel walk. This bright instrumental journey will have you toe tapping. Knowing the multicultural breadth of Diddakoi, you may well be brought back to the western hemisphere with a familiar Blues number or two as well.

Above left: Francoise the accordianist, Sybil the violinist and missing from the photo is keyboards / drummer, Tom..

Maleny-made films @ Events Centre

The November Movies and More screening will be held on Sunday November 8 at the Caloundra Events Centre from 4pm and will screen two documentaries made by local filmmakers, with the hinterland town of Maleny featuring as the subject of both.

A Peace of Green – Cornerstone of a Community will screen at 4pm. Jill Morris wrote, directed and produced this documentary which traces the history an 80 yearold building in Maleny, which over the years has had 13 different uses, meeting the changing needs of a hard- working community. The film uses original art and music to step through eight decades, interweaving narrative with interviews and quirky drama segments, with crisis moments in the building’s battle against the constant threat of demolition.

Reconstructing Peter will screen at 5.15pm. The documentary, by Jessica Begun, looks at the motivation of local filmmaker Peter Storm Erdmann, (below) who has captured 30 years and over 700 hours of the social history of Maleny with his video recorder. The film traces Peter’s amazing childhood in Shanghai under Japanese occupation and Communist rule until he was able to immigrate to Australia in 1959.

SHAG shows itself in public

Members of The Self Help Art Group (SHAG) are preparing for their final showing of the year. With over thirty members in the group from all walks of life and experience there is a diverse range of styles and media, from delicate watercolours to robust rocky landscapes, and from gentle portraits to wicked caricatures.

This final exhibition for 2009 will be in good time for those special or hard to find Xmas gifts. Opening times will be from 9.30 am to 4pm Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 November in St Mary’s Church Hall Montville.

The group’s aim is to provide a friendly and encouraging opportunity for artists to get together to paint each week at the Mapleton Bowls Club and to exhibit five times per year.

The exhibitions are also major fundraisers for the maintenance of the heritage listed St Mary’s Church Hall, with all donations and commissions from the sale of paintings going to the church.

More details: Wendy Edmond – wmedmond@hotmail.com or 5478 6932.