A FRENCH FEAST Wednesday 12 July 6pm, Salon PRESENTED BY Melbourne Recital Centre & Horsley and Williams Duo ARTISTS Horsley & Williams Duo Matthew Horsley uilleann pipes Ryan Williams recorders Shane Lestideau violin Samantha Cohen theorbo/Baroque guitar PROGRAM NICOLAS CHÉDEVILLE (1705-1782) La feste d'Iphise Marche des Chaffeurs Fanfares des Chaffeurs Chaconne FRENCH TRADITIONAL Briolage SAMUEL SMITH Species-Tombeau (world premiere) JACQUES-CHRISTOPHE NAUDOT (C.1690-1762) Les plaisirs de Champigny ou suite en trio I Tendrement II Gaiment III Musette IV Menuets V Lentement VI Air de Chasse SAMANTHA WOLF Splinter (world premiere) MICHEL PIGNOLET DE MONTÉCLAIR (C.1667-1737) Sixiéme Concert III Passacaille IV Le Papillon VI Le moucheron

FRENCH TRADITIONAL Les Amoureux Impatients Les Hussards de la Garde Polkas Piquées ABOUT THE ARTISTS Ryan Williams (recorders) and Matthew Horsley (uilleann pipes) have been collaborating together since 2010. The duo explores the heritage of their instruments as well as pushing the boundaries by utilising electro-acoustic sounds. Ryan Williams is an interdisciplinary recorder player. A passion for the recorder has led him on a journey full of cross-art-form collaborations, engaging performances and exciting improvisation. With an endeavour to collaborate with any art-form, Ryan uses his vibrancy as a stage performer to engage audiences visually and sonically. Between 2013 and 2014 Ryan recorded and released four albums of original music which include his first solo album, Wanderings and group albums, Tierra [Allestree], Snuff Puppets [Everybody] and Flightless Bird [Long Distance EP]. Ryan’s major performances have included the production of Venus & Adonis with the Bell Shakespeare Company (Malthouse Theatre, 2008), a Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens improvisational residency (2009/10), the production of Everybody (2012) and a performance at the Setouchi Art Triennale (2016) with Snuff Puppets, Australia’s premiere giant puppet company with whom he has been collaborating with since 2010. His own work Life As It Should Be with the collective Any Kind Of Creature (Amsterdam) was performed at Antwerp Fringe Festival in 2014 and at Melbourne Fringe Festival (2015). Multi-instrumentalist and composer Matthew Horsley specialises in the uilleann pipes, a bellows-blown bagpipe iconic to Irish traditional music. While remaining deeply committed to the Irish piping tradition, Matthew is also active in exploring, expanding and re-evaluating the repertoire and possibilities of the pipes through the commission, composition and improvisation of new music. He believes that this work has the potential to inform and enrich the practice of traditional and contemporary musicians alike. His first uilleann piping album, Australian Waters, was released in 2015. As the recipient of a JUMP Mentoring grant, he traveled to Ireland in 2014 where he studied with renowned pipers Mikie Smyth, Brian McNamara, Mick O’Brien and Peter Browne and performed a solo recital for Irish National Heritage Week. He is regular performer on the Australian festival circuit and participant in the Victorian session scene.

Melbourne Recital Centre acknowledges the people of the Kulin nation on whose land this concert is being presented.

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