Flinders Quartet debuts at Port Phillip Estate with an event that fuses exceptional music, landmark architecture, fine food, and wine.

Peter Bartók’s illuminating memoir of his father, Béla, inspired us to delve deeper into the musical portrait of this enigmatic man. Bartók’s fascination with folk melodies and their assimilation into “classical” music is well known, but what about the other elements of his life? The sense of displacement after he fled Hungary to America, the intense discipline with which he lived his life? Through anecdotes and letters, Richard Piper (who was the brilliant dramaturge on our “Puck’s Dream” and Shostakovich projects) helps us unearth some personal meaning behind the seminal canon of Bartók’s six string quartets.

Concert Program:

BÉLA BARTÓK Selected movements from Bartók’s six string quartets
BÉLA BARTÓK String Quartet No.5

Guest artist: Richard Piper, actor/dramaturge