Yarragon Arts Council

Tony Gould, Niels Bijl. Kindred spirits. Two passionate performing artists operating in what so many see as two completely different musical worlds: jazz and classical. But is this classification a just one? Not according to these two musicians: for them it’s all about story-telling, about the quality of music, about embracing the music they play with decades of experience and artistic integrity. It has been a life-long dream of Tony Gould to connect both worlds, in a program in which classical masterpieces are played in a uniquely refreshing way, with an immediate response from some of Australia’s most refined jazz musicians. JS Bach, Fauré, Schubert, Satie, even Cole Porter and Astor Piazzolla will be rejuvenated by these openminded musicians, in line with how the composers originally saw their music: as just a story that needed to be told, the best way the composers knew at that point in time.
Program:
Tony Gould meets Niels Bijl: introduction to the amalgamation of

Erik Satie Gymnopedie No 1
Alphone Hasselmans La Source (Harp solo)
Gabriel Fauré Aprés un rêve
Duke Ellington Reflections in D (Piano solo)
Stacy Garrop The Solitude of Stars
JS. Bach Grave, BWV 1003 (Sax solo)
Franz Schubert Der Leiermann
Cole Porter You’d be so nice to come home to Astor
Piazzolla Ave Maria

musicians:
Tony Gould - piano
Marshall McGuire - Harp
Niels Bijl - Saxophones
James Sherlock - Guitar
Mark Fitzgibbon - Piano