TAIT turns 30!
TAIT and VCASS invite you to celebrate with Isla Baring OAM, Thursday 27th of April 2023 at 5.45 pm.
We’re Back! (May 2022)
Join us to celebrate Tait Performing Arts Association link with the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School for a special concert that has been created showcasing great musical and ballet dancing talent – a must-see event followed by drinks and canapés.
Bridget O’Donnell & Friends
The concert will be this coming Tuesday the 21st of April and will be live-streamed in Australia at 9pm AEST and at 12noon in the UK BST. There will also be a delayed broadcast at 7pm BST. From the comfort of my lounge room I’ll be playing some gorgeous little tunes for violin and bass, some of the Prokofiev duo sonata for two violins and also some beautiful arrangements we’ve done for two violins, clarinet and bass! I’ve even delved into the world of improvising…
Tickets are available on the Tait Website and it’s definitely worth checking out some of the other gorgeous concerts lined up in the series. You can purchase these tickets in Australian dollars, so it is really easy to enjoy young Australian artists who are currently in London. You may like to purchase a ticket for a friend who is in self-isolation in UK as well!
tete-a-TAIT
TAIT Performing Arts Association INC.
Supporting young Australian artists in the UK & Europe presents tete-a-TAIT, an evening of songs, Opera & music for TPAA.
Tuesday 8 March 2016
KABARETT!
… Night is not only there for sleeping …
Brad Cooper tenor
Stefan Cassomenos piano
From the wartime hits of Coward and Novello
via Austria and America through to the irreverence of today,
KABARETT!
is a celebration of wild eclectic decadence
…and dangerously dark humour.
Tuesday 10 November 2015
7.00 pm Drinks Concert starts 7.30 pm
Savage Club, 12-16 Bank Place, Melbourne
$70 per person including drinks & canapés
Bookings: www.trybooking.com/164251
Australia Piano Quartet Strings
Chamber music soiree with the Australia Piano Quartet Strings
Australia Piano Quartet has been the inaugural Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney since 2011 and is being presented by the Sydney Opera House for a second season in 2015, alongside a series at Melbourne Recital Centre. In 2015 APQ embarks on its first European tour, debuting at London’s Barbican Centre and the Australian Embassy in Paris.
Beethoven: String Trio no. 1 in G Major Op. 9
Adagio – Allegro con brio
Duet for Two Obbligato Eyeglasses (Viola and Cello) WoO 32
Allegro
Minuetto
Jan Kral: Reverie for viola d’amore
Stamitz: Sonata for viola d’amore
Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello (1922)
Lent.
Vif, avec entrain.
Frederick Septimus Kelly: String Trio in b minor (Double Bay NSW, 1911)
Allegro Appassionato
24 February 2015 at 7.00pm
Melbourne Savage Club,
12 Bank Place Melbourne.
Bach Telemann & Baroque splendour
A journey through the early German 18th century solo flute as guided by the renowned Neil McLaren
Join Neil McLaren, hot on the heels of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment New York tour, as he takes us through the high notes of the early 18th century German flute repertoire.
Neil’s breadth of experience and stylistic versatility mark him among the best of today’s impressive array of flautists.
Tuesday 14 April 2015
7.00 pm Drinks – Concert starts 7.30 pm
Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club, 489 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong
Sir Norman Brookes Room.
$65 per person including drinks & canapés
Bookings http://www.trybooking.com/128331
Caroline Almonte
for an evening of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin
In memory of Pip Smibert (fellow Tait committee member) celebrating a life in
music & theatre.
Presented by Ross Campbell
Tuesday 15 July 2014
7.30 pm Drinks – Concert starts 8.00 pm
Savage Club, 12-16 Bank Place, Melbourne
$65 per person including drinks & canapés
Bookings click here or here
The Tait Performing Arts Association would like to thank the Savage Club and
Caroline Almonte for their support for this evening’s fund raising concert.
Lotte Betts-Dean
In recital Debussy, Alma Mahler, Brahms, Margaret Sutherland
Accompanied by Stewart Kelly
7:30 pm drinks for 8.00 pm start
Thursday 28 November 2013
Savage Club 12-16 Bank Place Melbourne
Tickets $65 – Click here to book your tickets
Download the Lotte Betts-Dean Flyer
Jayson Gillham
Jayson Gillham – Commonwealth Musician of the Year 2012, London based Australian pianist is performing at the Melbourne Savage Club on Thursday 12 September 2013. Book your tickets here.
Further details will follow soon, in the meantime, for further information about Jayson go to www.jaysongillham.co.uk
Dr Leslie Howard
Dr Leslie Howard, renowned Australian concert pianist and composer will give an evening recital at the Melbourne Savage Club, on Tuesday 15 October 2013.
Click here for the programme notes see also Dr Howard’s website at www.lesliehowardpianist.com
Babar and Friends presented and narrated by John Amis
Tait Performing Arts Association presents
Babar and Friends presented and narrated by John Amis
Tuesday 16 October 2012
7.30 FOR 8.00 PM (drinks on arrival)
Savage Club, 12-16 Bank Place, Melbourne
Join renowned British broadcaster, writer and music critic, John Amis for this special 90th birthday event.
Program: Poulenc’s Babar the Elephant. Jean de Brunhoff famous tale with Caroline Almonte piano
Ferdinand the Bull. Mungo Leaf’s well known story with Alan Ridout’s violin music performed by Elizabeth Sellars violin
Tickets: $65 (including drinks and refreshments) – proceeds support the Tait Performing Arts Association.
The Tait Performing Arts Association is a not for profit organisation that raises funds to support emerging Australian performing artists wishing to study overseas. Sir Frank and Viola Tait, and the Tait brothers played an important part in the establishment of theatre and the performing arts in Australia.
The Tait Performing Arts Association acknowledges the generous support of John Amis, Caroline Almonte, Elizabeth Sellars and the Savage Club
Rosemary Tuck
John Amis introduces
ROSEMARY TUCK
Chopinesque: The Piano Music of William Vincent Wallace
Tuesday 30 October 2012
7.30 for 8.00PM (drinks and canapés on arrival)
Savage Club, 12-16 Bank Place, Melbourne
Adventurer, composer and heart breaker, William Vincent Wallace, was the first great musician to visit Australia. He founded a Music Academy and the first Australian Music festival in 1835 before conquering the world with his opera Maritana, which began life on the verandah of the Bush Inn in Norfolk, Tasmania. His piano works are dazzling in their variety, invention, wit, humour and charm with UK-based Australian pianist Rosemary Tuck celebrating Wallace’s bicentenary and launching her new CD on Naxos.
Stefan Cassomenos plays Beethoven
Tait Performing Arts Association presents Stefan Cassomenos plays Beethoven
Monday 3 September 2012
7.30 FOR 8.00 PM (drinks on arrival)
Savage Club, 12-16 Bank Place, Melbourne
Stage II finalist from the Sydney International Piano Competition 2012
Stefan’s playing is something else: alive, passionate, dramatic – that was as near technically perfect as dammit. John Amis
If you missed Stefan’s virtuoso Liszt for John Amis last year at the Savage Club make sure you see this talented young composer, conductor and pianist perform:
VINE Toccatissimo (2012)
HAYDN Sonata Hob XVI/32 in b minor
BEETHOVEN Sonata No 31 Op 110 in A Flat Major
CHOPIN Berceuse, Op 57
LISZT-SCHUBERT Soirées de Vienne Valse caprice No 6
LISZT-VERDI Rigoletto Paraphrase
Tickets: $65 (including drinks and refreshments) – proceeds support the Tait Performing Arts Association.
Bookings: www.tait.org.au – Stefan Cassomenos @ Savage Club RSVP 29 August 2012
The Tait Performing Arts Association is a not for profit organisation that raises funds to support emerging Australian performing artists wishing to study overseas. Sir Frank and Viola Tait, and the Tait brothers played an important part in the establishment of theatre and the performing arts in Australia.
The Tait Performing Arts Association acknowledges the generous support of Stefan Cassomenos and the Savage Club
Sharolyn Kimmorley
In October of this year Sydney will be presenting a concert featuring pianist Sharolyn Kimmorley accompanying Australian soprano Valda Wilson. Further details soon.
Inaugural Concert
In September 2011, the Sydney chapter of TPAA presented their inaugural concert at the historic Womens Club in Elizabeth Street. The audience was delighted to be entertained by the inimitable and delightful John Amis who presented ‘John Amis meets Percy Grainger’. John was accompanied by Pianist, Ambre Hammond during his talk entitled ‘Percyvering with Percy’. This was a most enjoyable and successful introduction to our Sydney TPAA supporters.