SELECTED REPERTOIRE Conducted in concert
The following represents a selection of orchestral, operatic, and cross-genre works conducted in concert by Sarah-Grace Williams with professional orchestras and soloists throughout Australasia.
SYMPHONIC REPERTOIRE (Selection)
Adams, John – Chamber Symphony
Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra, Rumanian Folk Dances, Hungarian Peasant Dances, 3 Transylvanian Dances
Beethoven – Symphonies Nos. 1–8, Coriolanus Overture, Egmont Overture, Prometheus Overture, Ruins of Athens Overture
Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Bernstein – Candide Complete, On the Town: three Dance Episodes
Bizet – Carmen Suites 1 & 2, Larlesienne Suites 1 & 2, Symphony in C
Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Borodin – Polovstian Dances, In the Steppes of Central Asia
Brahms – Symphonies Nos. 1–4, Academic Festival Overture, Haydn Variations, Hungarian Dances 1-11, Serenade no 1
Debussy – L’apres-midi-d’un faune
De Falla – Three Cornered Hat, El Amor Brujo,
Dvořák – Symphonies Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9 “From the New World”; Carnival Overture, Czech Suite, Slavonic Dances, String Serenade
Dukas – Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Elgar – Enigma Variations, Introduction & Allegro
Elfmann – Batman (1989)
Franck – Symphony in D minor
Gershwin – Cuban Overture,
Ginastera – Estancia
Glinka – Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Goldsmith – Star Trek
Gounod – Petite Symphony, Symphony no 1
Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 & 2, Holberg Suite, Norwegian Dances
Hamerik – Symphony no 6
Haydn – Symphonnies Nos. 44, 94, 101, 1103, 104
Hermann – Vertigo: Suite, Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra
Holst – The Planets, St Paul’s Suite
Humperdinck – Hansel and Gretel Overture
Kabalevsky – The Comedians
Khachaturian – Spartacus Suite no 2
Kodaly – Dances of Galanta, Dances of Marroszek
Koehne – To his servant Bach God grants a final glimpse
Locatelli – Concerto IV – Il pano d’Arianna
Ligeti – Concert Românesc
Lutoslavski – Little suite
Mahler – Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5
Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture, Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture and Excerpts, Sinfonia no 8, Symphony Nos 1, 3 & 4, Capriccio & Fugue
Montgomery – Air and the Voice
Mussorgsky: Night on Bare Mountain, Picture at an Exhibition
Mozart – Symphonies Nos. 1, 25, 29, 35, 38–41; Requiem; Overtures from Don Giovanni, Figaro, and Zauberflöte, Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro, Overture to Cosi fan tutte, Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Nielson – Little Suite for Strings
Prokofiev – Classical Symphony, Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2, Peter and the Wolf, Remo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 & 2,
Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances, Symphony No. 2, Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
Rimsky- Korsakov – Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol, Flight of the Bumble Bee
Respighi – The Birds, Pini di Roma
Rose – Holiday for Strings
Rossini – Barber of Seville Overture, William Tell Overture
Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals, Symphony in A Major, Danse Macabre
Schifrin – Mission Impossible
Schoenberg – 5 Pieces for Orchestra
Schubert – Symponies No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9, Overture in the Italian Style
Schumann – Manfred Overture, Symphony No.s 1 & 3
Shostakovich – Symphonies Nos. 1, 9 & 10; The Gadfly Suite
Sibelius – Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & 5; Finlandia, Valse Triste, Swan of Tuonela
Stravinsky – The Firebird Suite (1919) The Rite of Spring (Excerpts), Dumbarton Oaks, Octet
Suk – Serenade for Strings
Strauss J – Gypsy Baron Overture, Der Fledermaus Overture, Radetzky March, Ejen a Magyar
Strauss R – Serenade for 13 Winds, Eine Alpensinfonie (offstage banda),
Tchaikovksy – Sympnonies No.s 1, 4, 5 & 6, Swan Lake Suite, String Serenade, Mazeppa, March Slave, 1812 Overture, Souvenir de Florence, Capriccio Italien
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Wagner – Tristan und Isolde Prelude; Ride of the Valkyries
Williams – Superman March, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars Opening Theme, Harry Potter
WORKS WITH SOLOISTS (Selection)
Arutunian – Trumpet Concerto (Jenna Smith)
Bach – Oboe Concerto (Matthew Bubb)
Beethoven – Violin Concerto (Glenn Christensen), Piano Concertos No. 3 (Hong Quang Luu) No. 5 (Ambre Hammond);
Beckel – Horn Concerto (QSO Horns)
Borne – Carmen Fantasy (Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, flute
Brahms – Violin Concerto (Susan Collins); Double Concerto (Katherine Lukey & Simon Cobcroft), Alto Rhapsody (Sally-Anne Russell)
Bruch – Violin Concerto (Ilya Konovalov, Victorian Jacono-Gilmovich)
Copland – Clarinet Concerto (Paul Dean)
Dvorak – Silent Woods (David Requiro)
Elgar – Cello Concerto (Ezmi Pepper)
Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (Simon Tedeschi, Bernard Walz)
Glazunov – Alto Saxophone Concerto (Nicholas Rusoniello)
Grieg – Piano Concerto (Simon Tedeschi, Daniel Herskovitch Paul Rickard-Ford)
Haydn – Trumpet Concerto (Mathhew Dempsey)
Hindemith – Concerto for Viola (Bernard Hoey)
Ibert – Flute Concerto (Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, Haley Radke)
Jones – Tuba Concerto (Thomas Allely)
Koussevitzky – Double Bass Concerto (Kirsty McCahon)
Korngold – Violin Concerto (Rebecca Chan)
Larson – Horn Concerto (Peter Luff)
Lovelock – Concertino for Trombone and Strings (Jason Redman)
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto (Katherine Lukey)
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto (Kathryn Lukey, Warwick Adeney)
Mozart – Violin Concerto no 5 (Amalia Hall, Anna da Silva Chen), Clarinet Concerto (Frank Celata, Catherine McKorkill, Andrew Doyle), Trumpet Concerto (Matthew Dempsey), Violin Concerto (Anna da Silva Chen), Piano Concertos no 19 (Simon Tedeschi) no 20 (Alex Raineri) no 21 (Kate Johnson) no 23 (Kathryn Selby)
Piazolla – Double Concerto* (Nicholas Russoniello & Murilo Tnuye), Astor – The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Victoria Jacono-Gilmovich)
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 (David Helfgott, Clemens Leske), No 2 (Benjamin Kopp), Variation on a theme by Paganini (Ambre Hammond)
Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez (Giuseppe Zangari)
Rojas – Libertano Suite* (Daniel Rojas), Chamber Concerto for Marimba & Orchestra* (Clarine Edwardes), Guitar Concerto (Giuseppe Zangari)
Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto (Patrick Murphy)
Sarasate – Ziguenerweisen (Niki Vasalakis, Wrwick Adeney, Niki Vasalakis)
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Tamara-Anna Cislowska)
Strauss – Horn Concerto (Michael Wray)
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto (Susan Collins), Piano Concerto (Benjamin kopp),
Tycho – Violin Concerto (Maria Lindsay)
Vaughan Williams – Lark Ascending (Manu Berkeljon, Joan Shee, Vicky Sale)
Vivaldi – Four Seasons (Lisa Stewart, Manu Berkeljon, Rebecca Seymour), Bassoon Concerto (Lyndon Watts), Flute Concerto no 2 (Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, Tania Fraser)
Weber – Clarinet Concerto (Andrew Doyle)
Westlake – Antartica (Guiseppe Zangari, Phillip Moroan)
Wagenseil – Trombone concerto (Greg Van der Struik)
OPERA, BALLET & CHORAL (Selection)
Berlioz – Les nuits d’éte (Elizabeth Campbell, Mezzo Soprano)
Brahms – Serious Songs (Teddy Tahu Rhodes), Alto Rhapsody (Sally-Anne Russell)
Donizetti – Elixir of Love concert presentation (Teddy Tahu Rhodes & Alexandra Flood)
Handel – The Messiah, Israel in Egypt
Haydn – The Creation
Kats-Chernin – Little Green Road to Ferryland^ ballet
Mozart – Requiem, Great Mass, Amadeus stage production featuring excerpts from La finta semplice Idomeneo, re di Creta , Le nozze di Figaro , Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflöte (with Katherine Allen, Michaela Leisk, Laura Scandizzo, Joshua Oxley, Daniel Verschuer, Daniel Macey)
Puccini – La Bohème (Excerpts), Tosca, Turandot
Verdi – La Traviata concert version (Nicole Car, Christopher Hillier, Rosario La Spina), La Forza del Destino excerpts (Christopher Hillier, Rosario La Spina), Rigoletto concert version (Rosia La Spina, Sian Pendry, Barry Ryan, Teresa La Rocca, Edmond Choo, Henry Choo)
Rossini – Barber of Seville concert version (Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Alexandra Flood), L’Italina in Algeri concert version (Sally-Ane Russell)
Tchiakovsky – Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake
Various – BodyTorque Seasons (The Australian Ballet)
Wagner – Wesendonck Leider (Lisa Gasteen)
AUSTRALIAN WORKS (Selection)
* indicates commissioned work by Sarah-Grace Williams/The Metropolitan Orchestra
^ indicates world premiere
Abiko Yusaku – Bedtime Stories *^
Barton, William – Didj Fusion
Coyle, Jim – Punch*^ for Organ & Orchestra (Bev Kennedy), Dancing with Billy Bray^, Deeper*^ for Contrabass Sax & Orchestra (Michael Duke), The Bright Seraphim^ * (Anthony Heinrichs)
Cutlan, Paul – Towards Infinity*^
Dean, Brett – 5 Short Pieces
Grandison, Mark – Degustation^, Cellar Door*^
Grainger, Percy – Handel in the Stand, Irish tune from County Derry, Molly on the Shore, Shepherd’s Hey
Grandage, Iain – Wild Geese
Greenbaum, Stuart – Moments of Falling
Hamilton, Lesson – Macquarie^
Hallam, Adrian – Viking Saga^, Jack and the Beanstalk*^
Hindson, Matthew – Light Music^
Hyde, Miriam – Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda
Kats-Chernin, Elena – Little Green Road to Ferryland^, Wild Swans Suite, Fire and Water, Redmyre Suite*^, Ornamental Air for Basset Clarinet and Orchestra (Andrew Doyle), Fast Blue Village 5^, Reinventions^ (Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, flute)
Koehne, Graeme – Time is a River (featuring Andrew Doyle)
Lalor, Stephen: Mima Concert Overture, Bukovina Odyssey
Lockley, Gavin – King of the Air Musical^ (with Yvonne Kenny, Daniel Belle, Renae Martin, David Hooley, Meredith O’Reilly, Philip Dodd), Piano Concerto*^ (Simon Tedeschi)
Mathiske, Bruce – Suites for Guitar and Orchestra^ (featuring Bruce Mathiske)
O’Boyle, Sean – Snapshot Concerti, Fantasy on a Theme of Mendelssohn
Rotar, John – Interludes^
Rojas, Daniel – Little Serenade for Strings *^, Libertango*^, Chamber Concerto for Marimba & Orchestra*^ (Claire Edwardes)
Russoniello, Nicholas – Where the Mountain *^ for Alto Sax and Orchestra
Sculthorpe, Peter – Port Essington, Earth Cry, Uluru, Little Suite for Strings, Kakadu, Small town
Shannon, Heather – Sequence & Variations*^, Study in Morbid Fragments^, Strange Roses for Synthesiser & Orchestra*^
SOQ – Beauty Song Cycle^ (Graham Sattler, Stephen O’Connell)
Stanhope, Paul – Morning Star, Helater Skelter, Throbbing^
U’Brihien, Nigel – Mestizo Suite*^
Wilkins, Keyna Celestial Emu*^, concerto for Didjeridu (with Gumaroy Newman)
Smoke Trails*^ (Andrew Doyle, Clarinet) Triple Flute Concerto*^ (Svetlana Yaroslavskaya, Vanessa Couper, Jacinta Mikus)
Vine, Carl – Pipe Dreams for flute and orchestra (Hayley Radke, Svetlana Yaroslavskaya)
Westlake, Nigel – Antarctica (featuring Guiseppe Zangari)
Winkler, Peter – The Kookaburra Who Stole the Moon
CROSS-GENRE, FILM & VIDEO GAME CONCERTS
Synthony – Orchestral-electronic fusion productions (Australia, New Zealand, Asia)
Full Metal Orchestra – Symphonic rock collaboration (Auckland Philharmonia)
Video Game Concerts – Stardew Valley: Symphony of the Seasons, Death Stranding, Festival of Seasons
Live-to-Film Concerts – Batman, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Frozen Planet, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, Muppets A Christmas Carol, Love Actually
Basement Jaxx vs The Metropolitan Orchestra – Australian/NZ tour
Tom Odell with The Metropolitan Orchestra
Air Supply Australian/NZ Tour