Flinders Quartet

Paavali

Paavali Jumppanen joins Flinders Quartet for their 25th anniversary, featuring works by Bacewicz, Shostakovich, and Beethoven.

Melbourne has been lucky to have extraordinary pianist, Paavali Jumppanen, in our musical community as Artistic Director at ANAM. He joins Flinders Quartet in the opening concert program of their 25th anniversary season for not just one piano quintet but two! Graznya Bacewicz was an accomplished pianist and violin virtuoso whose deep knowledge of the instruments as a performer shows itself in her writing. Her piano quintet is evidence of her immaculate skill and mediates between folkloric impulses and the rigour of classical principles, creating a sound world which is constantly delivering moments of unexpected beauty.

Shostakovich was so busy performing his popular new piano quintet on tour with his friends of the Beethoven Quartet following its premiere in November 1940 that he hardly had time to compose for six months. Flinders Quartet sets up this wonderful piano feast with Beethoven’s short but powerful Op.95 F minor quartet ‘Serioso’, written at a time of personal despair and the only one he named himself.

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Duration: 2 hours (incl. interval). Please note, running times are approximate and subject to change.

Tickets
Standard $53
Concession $42
Student $42
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Flinders Quartet 2025

Explore the 2025 season at Melbourne Recital Centre and Montsalvat Eltham.

Artists

Elizabeth Sellars violin
Wilma Smith violin
Helen Ireland viola
Zoe Knighton cello
Paavali Jumppanen piano

Program

Ludwig Van Beethoven
String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op.95

Graznya Bacewicz
Piano Quintet No.1

Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57

Accessibility
Wheelchair access
Assistance Animals Welcome
Melbourne Recital Centre
31 Sturt St Southbank 3006
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