A Celebration of Voice & Piano

Date & Time
Tuesday, 6 June
2pm
- 3pm

Venue
Churches of Christ Care Home,
Little Mountain

Kabi Kabi Country
(map)

Artists
Gianna Guttilla
Reuben Tsang

Francis Atkins (2023) - Photo: EyesWideOpenImages

SCCMF will present a free Chamber Music lunchtime concert at the Churches of Christ Care Home residents, their families, and staff.

This concert is part of the festival’s Community Engagement Program - which aims to bring music to communities who are unable to access the main festival events and build the region's cultural capacity through an emerging artist mentoring program.  It also profiles some of Queensland’s most exciting new talent and future superstars of the classical and chamber music worlds.  

In 2023, pianist Reuben and soprano Gianna forged a strong creative connection when they were selected to work together as part of the inaugural 2023 Queensland Art Song Festival. In this Celebration of Voice & Song concert, they will share a selection of their favourite solo piano repertoire, lieder, art songs and beloved arias. 

Past alumni of the Community Engagement Program, which aims to identify and profile Australia’s up and coming classical music superstars, include Alex Raineri (Artistic Director of the Brisbane Music Festival), Courtney Cleary, Francis Atkins, and Camilo Lopez (Artistic Director of Voxalis).

Please Note: this event is free and general admission. No registration is required.

Repertoire

  • Duparc - L’invitation au voyage

  • Strauss - Standchen  

  • Copland - Pastorale 

  • Shubert - Ganymed  

  • Mozart - Piano sonata No.3 in Bb major K281

  • Stravinsky & Agosti - Three Movements from "The Firebird"

  • Villaume -  Brown Bird

  • Charpentier- Depuis le jour  

  • Loewe - I could have danced all night

  • Puccini - Quando m’en vo


Gianna Guttilla

Soprano Gianna Guttilla is currently in a second year Master of Music Studies student in Performance Voice at Griffith University, under the vocal tutelage of Dr. Margaret Schindler. Since commencing her studies in Brisbane, Gianna has partaken in the 2023 Queensland Art Song Festival Masterclass series with Baritone Benjamin Appl, Sholto Kynoch and Andrew Goodwin, and performed the role of Eurydice in QCQU’s 2023 Opera Underworld. Additionally, she studied the roles of Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Mimi (La Bohéme) at the 2024 Cuskelly Summer School Program. Gianna worked as part of the Adelaide Festival Chorus (The Nightingale and other Fables - State Opera of South Australia) and performed the role of Elvira in L’Italiana in Algeri (QCGU 2024 Val Machin Opera Scenes). She will be performing the roles of Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica – QCGU) and Gretel (Hänsel and Gretel – Voxalis Opera) at the Tyalgum Music Festival in September. 

Reuben Tsang

Described in a review by Sounds Like Sydney as a pianist with “technical wizardry and versatility”, Cairns-born Reuben Tsang is now guided by Natasha Vlassenko OAM in his studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. 

Reuben has also been a part of prestigious competitions including the 2023 Aarhus International Piano Competition and most recently, the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition. Receiving the Nancy Weir Best Australian Pianist Award among other awards in this competition has afforded him a national recital tour experience with Piano+.

Reuben has also been involved in events like the 2023 Queensland Art Song Festival and the 2024 Musical Chairs Chamber Music Festival in Montreal, and looks forward to many more collaborative musical experiences.

Photo Credit: Kayzar