Acclaimed Australian composer–conductor Brett Dean joins his daughter, mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean, and the trailblazing Aurora Orchestra for Memory - an atmospheric performance exploring the strange, powerful ways music holds our past.
Marking Dean’s 65th birthday year, the programme drifts through tributes, elegies and sonic snapshots: from Copland’s gentle Simple Gifts and Molly Drake’s aching I Remember, to the shimmer of John Adams’ Shaker Loops and the quiet devastation of Radiohead’s Harry Patch (In Memory Of).
Fragments by Ives, Ravel, Kurtág, Weill, Shaw, Boulanger and Couperin unfold like half-remembered stories, with Dean’s own Epitaphs and Recollections woven through the evening. Each piece reaches back across time, asking what we keep, what we lose, and what music allows us to feel again.
A rare opportunity to hear two exceptional Australian artists in a deeply intimate meditation on memory, connection and the echoes that shape us.
Running time: approximately 75 minutes, no interval.