Australian Festival of Chamber Music
FREE concert featuring
String ensemble Felix Quartet
with LLOYD VAN’T HOFF clarinet
1PM WED 26 JULY 2023
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music, in partnership with Wilmar Sugar, is bringing emerging Sydney ensemble
the Felix Quartet to Charters Towers for a spirited concert at the World Theatre.
Felix Quartet will perform Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 33, No. 6 and Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet Op. 11.
Felix Quartet will be joined by Lloyd van’t Hoff, AFCM Winterschool Director and festival clarinettist.
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Program:
LUDWIG VANBEETHOVEN Quartet in E-flatmajor for Strings, Op.127
PIOTR ILYICHTCHAIKOVSKY Quartet No. 1 in Dmajor for Strings, Op.11
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Felix Quartet
Named in reference to Felix Mendelssohn, the Felix Quartet is a young and vibrant ensemble founded in 2022 with the goal ofcreating captivating and original performances of a wide repertoire.The Felix Quartet has been awarded the Henderson Travellers scholarship and has performed in world-renowned chamber musicf estivals including the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, as well as the Australian Festival ofChamber Music. They have been fortunate to receive invitation to form an artistic residency.
LLOYD VAN’T HOFF (clarinet) BIO
Born in Darwin Australia, Lloyd Van’t Hoff enjoys a career as a vibrant, young clarinettist, chamber musician, collaborator and educator.
Lloyd Van't Hoff has a strong connection to Charters Towers, starting his musical journey in a North Queensland high school with a borrowed clarinet.
Lloyd has shared, created and performed music all throughout the world. Lloyd has enjoyed great success having won the 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award.
A regular performer at Australia’s major international arts festivals, Lloyd’s recent highlights have included performances at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Huntington Estate Music Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and the Musica Viva Festival. As a collaborator, Lloyd played a featured role in the Aria award-winning project, Conversations With Ghosts, alongside singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey and composer James Ledger. Recent orchestral highlights include concerto performances with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, and appearances as guest principal clarinet with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria and Melbourne Chamber Orchestra.
Lloyd is a founding member of Arcadia Winds, Australia’s leading young wind ensemble, and Musica Viva’s Inaugural FutureMakers. With Arcadia Winds Lloyd has performed across Australia and China, commissioned dozens of new Australian works, and developed The Air I Breathe, an education show in collaboration with Musica Viva in Schools that reaches tens of thousands of children across Australia every year.
Lloyd studied at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, and at the Australian National Academy of Music.
