Shows

Organ to Opera at Twilight

Saturday September 12 / 5.30-7pm

Join us for an evening of music and song at the Barossa Regional Gallery as the sun descends over the village of Tanunda, and help raise funds for the community work of the Kiwanis Club of Barossa.

A compilation of classical and contemporary arrangements will be performed by the talented sisters Eleanor, Kirilie and Ruth Blythman. All are highly acclaimed professional stage and concert artists each of whom has recieved outstanding reviews. 

Their magnificent voices will be complimented by the beauty and grandeur of the sounds of the Hill & Son Grand Organ. This recently restored organ will be played by the internationally recognized Joshua van Konkelenberg, from St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide.

TICKETS

$25,00
$20.00 conc.

Under 18 Free

Available online or at the door. 

Book now online at
dramatix.com.au

VENUE

Barossa Regional Gallery
Soldiers Memorial Hall
3 Basedow Rd
Tanunda 5352

For more information contact Sandy Blythman on 0419 867 854 or blythmans@ihug.com.au

THE ARTISTS

Joshua van Konkelenberg

Joshua van Konkelenberg studied piano at the University of Adelaide between 2001 and 2003 with Stefan Ammer and Lucinda Collins, and then at the Australian National Academy of Music with Ian Munro and Rita Reichman, having studied privately with Graham Williams. In 2004, he was awarded First Class Honours in Composition, and held the positions of Organ Scholar and Assistant Organist at Saint Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide during his undergraduate studies, studying with David Swale.

After moving to Melbourne in 2006, he worked as a freelance pianist before being appointed College Organist and Music Tutor at Trinity College, Melbourne. He subsequently relocated to London to study organ and improvisation with David Graham and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin at the Royal College of Music, where he received the degree of Master of Music with distinction in 2012, and completed the Ph.D. in Composition (at the University of Adelaide) in the same year.

Joshua was awarded the Walford. E. Davies Prize for Dux of the Organ Faculty at the Royal College of Music, and has been the recipient of grants from the Australia Council for the Arts and the Ian Potter Cultural Trust, an University of Adelaide Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, and an Australian Postgraduate Award. He currently teaches in Adelaide and Melbourne.

Eleanor Blythman

Eleanor Blythman has worked as a professional performer internationally in both opera and musical theatre. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London and the Elder Conservatorium of Music in South Australia.

Eleanor made her professional debut as Peep-bo in the Opera Australia production of The Mikado alongside Anthony Warlow, Judi Connelli and David Hobson. In the same year she performed as the Wife in Elena Kats- Chernin’s Undertow for Icebreaker productions touring to Hungary and Finland, Gretel in Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel, Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park with George at The State Opera Studio and Janet McGregor in South Pacific for Seabiscuit Productions/Festival Centre. Whilst in Adelaide from 2003-7 Eleanor was a member of the State Opera Studio Young Artist program performing many roles such as Lois/Bianca in Kiss Me Kate, Princess and the Nightingale L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Madame Herz in Mozart’s The Impressario and Tea Lady in The Station.

In 2007, prior to her departure to London to study at the Royal College of Music she was delighted to play the role of Amy in the Australian premiere of Adamo’s Little Women for the State Opera and State Theatre of South Australia. For the Royal College of Music Opera scenes she performed the roles of The Controller in Flight by Jonathan Dove, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Benjamin Britten and Ilia in Idomeneo by Mozart. Upon completing her studies Eleanor was invited to join Coopera to sing the role of the Queen of the Night in their production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute which toured Australia, Germany and Switzerland.

Eleanor has recently returned from London where she performed on the West End Stage as Mrs Jenks in The Tenderland by Copland and as a Swing regularly performing the roles of Confidante, Bride in the Mirror, Wardrobe Mistress and Madame Firmin in The Phantom of the Opera. She also performed the roles of Wild Women, Cartwheel and Page in The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Gala at Royal Albert Hall. Eleanor was most recently a finalist and prize winner for the MTO German/ Australian Opera Grant. Since her return to Adelaide Eleanor performed in Otello for the State Opera of South Australia, as Clara in Passion for Swell Productions and produced her own cabaret titled Enough?! as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2014.

Ruth Blythman

Ruth is a passionate and experienced performer, producer and arts facilitator. Having trained through London’s Laine Theatre Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Ruth has also obtained a Bachelor of Business degree majoring in Marketing. Ruth has toured Australia with The Ten Sopranos and acted for various commercials, short films and Melbourne based plays. Ruth works for one of the country’s most successful contemporary dance company’s, KAGE Physical Theatre in the role of Company Manager. During her time at KAGE, the company has toured nationally with TEAM OF LIFE and FORKLIFT, the latter of which also had a highly successful season in Finland earlier in the year. In addition to her work with KAGE, Ruth runs her own production company, Release Creative with Zac Tyler. Producing credits through Release Creative include: The Your Theatrics International Cabaret Contest which was presented across Australasia, Amelia Ryan’s A Storm In A D Cup for Adelaide Fringe Festival, The Tasmanian Cabaret Festival and Fringe World in Western Australia and 27 Club which recently enjoyed its premiere in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Kirilie Blythman

Kirilie completed a Bachelor of Music at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University in 2011. She was awarded the Athenaenum Competition vocal prize and the Walter Kirby Singing Scholarship. Recently a developing artist with Victorain Opera, she completed the Maters of Music (Opera Performance) program through the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne 2013.

For Victorian Opera, Kirilie has performed the roles of Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Princess (Puss in Boots). Other appearances include Soloist (2014 Opera on a White Night), Narrator (The Magic Pudding – the opera), Soloist (Rush Hour), Chorus (Nixon in China), Soloist (2013 Opera on a White Night Gala Concert).

Currently Kirilie is touring in Opera Australia’s Schools Program production of Hansel And Gretel performing the role of Gretel

“Kirilie Blythman held the audience in thrall with her clear, steady, resonant soprano throughout her rendering of arias from Gounod's Faust and Dvorak's Russalk”.

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Australian Stage