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Hello and welcome to the new Selby&Friends website. Within you will find details about my new 2007 National Concert Season, including the special guest artists I have invited to join me in 2007 and the specific dates, venues and concert programs we will present for you. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many hundreds of people from whom I received inspiring, wonderful letters and emails following the events surrounding MTA earlier in 2006. It was this immediate and heartfelt response, and also that of the live audiences around the country to the two final replacement tours, that encouraged me to create, and be truly enthusiastic about, this new series. From 1989 to 1992, I presented a series of concerts in Sydney named Selby & Friends which brought together my friends and colleagues from around the country. This new series will introduce to you a wonderful group of musicians who will join me for what I fully expect to be a very exciting and special season. I have invited old and new friends to share with me the intimacy of collaboration and co-operation provided by the rich literature of chamber music. Together we will introduce you to an exciting mix of emerging young stars and seasoned performers with whom to explore our, and I hope your, favourite repertoire. On this site you will also find a form designed by the Australian Business and Arts Foundation (AbaF) which has generously arranged for this series to receive tax deductible donations directly from you to assist with the costs associated with production and presentation. Many kind people have already made a donation and to them I send my sincerest thanks. Following the final, and really delightful, MTA replacement tour in October 2006 with virtuoso violinist Niki Vasilakis and the incredible former Principal Cellist of the ACO, Emma-Jane Murphy, critics and audiences alike were eager for us to work together regularly. We felt very much the same way, and so we have decided to form a new Australian piano trio and regroup for three tours in 2007 as part of our new activities together. At the time of writing this letter, we are in the process of searching for a name for our new ensemble – perhaps you have a suggestion for us! This is a very exciting new development for all three of us! I am thrilled that the dazzling young Australian cellist, Li-Wei, will be joining me for a cello/piano recital tour in 2007. He is the Head of Strings at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He divides his time between Singapore, China, England, the US and Australia, and has just been named the Artistic Director of the Jin Mao Concert Hall in Shanghai. He has an incredibly hectic international concertizing schedule and I am just so happy he has managed to squeeze these few days into his busy life. The young, award-winning Janaki String Trio visits us from the USA next year. Based in California, they have taken the chamber music world by storm and I am truly looking forward to my collaboration with them. They have a new recording contract with Naxos and I am delighted to be presenting an ensemble whose ties with the Concert Artist Guild in New York have mirrored my own. I have three new venues in 2007. The Sunday afternoon series in Sydney will move to the light-filled McQuoin Centre at Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, Miller Street, North Sydney. Free parking is available directly under the venue on the school grounds, at the nearby Council Car Park at Stanton Library, on Miller Street and in the many surrounding quiet streets. I will also be presenting the early evening concerts at the beautiful St Andrews Cathedral in Town Hall Square, Sydney, as part of my activities at St Andrews Cathedral School. Public transport is available at the Town Hall and parking is close by in the QVB and on Kent Street. In Brisbane, we will be at St John’s Cathedral which will generously provide parking on the Cathedral grounds, and there is parking available at the Cathedral Square parking station across the street from St Johns. I will continue to present Melbourne concerts in Melba Hall, Adelaide concerts at Elder Hall and Canberra concerts in the intimate theatre within the National Gallery of Australia. This series has received such wonderful support from my colleagues and my friends, but make no mistake - this series exists truly for you and it is only with your support that it can be a success. I hope you are as excited about it as I am. Please join me and let’s have some fun in 2007! Kathy |