2024 FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Viola
Brett Dean's Performances
Friday 26 July 2024
AFCM 2024 Opening Night Concert - Festival Feelings
Saturday 27 July 2024
AFCM Governor's Gala - Angels, Demons and other Nasties...
Sunday 28 July 2024
AFCM SPECIAL EVENT Sunday Night Concert - Schubertiade
Wednesday 31 July 2024
Ray Golding Sunset Series 3 - Symphonic Sunset
Thursday 1 August 2024
AFCM Evening Concert 3 - Baroque Temptations
Friday 2 August 2024
AFCM Evening Concert 4 - Musical Transfigurations
Saturday 3 August 2024
Concert Conversations 6 with Ben Jacks, Brett Dean, Lotte Betts-Dean and Amandine Savary
Saturday 3 August 2024
AFCM 2024 Closing Concert - Festival Farewell
Brett Dean
Brett Dean studied in Brisbane before moving to Germany in 1984 where he was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic for fourteen years, during which time he began composing. His music is championed by many of the leading conductors and orchestras worldwide, including Sir Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski, David Robertson, Andris Nelsons, Marin Alsop and Sakari Oramo. Much of Dean’s work draws from literary, political, environmental or visual stimuli, including a number of compositions inspired by artwork by his wife Heather Betts.
Dean enjoys a busy performing career as violist and conductor, performing his own Viola Concerto with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Dean is a natural chamber musician, frequently collaborating with other soloists and ensembles to perform both his own chamber works and standard repertoire, including projects with the Doric Quartet, Scharoun Ensemble and Alban Gerhardt, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Australian National Academy of Music.