Visions on Michelangelo

Jeremy Kleeman | bass-baritone

Jack Symonds | piano

Sunday 20 September 2026 at 3pm
Wesley Music Centre
20 National Circuit, Forrest

Shostakovich, in his twilight years, wrote a cycle of eleven songs based on poems by Michelangelo in the Russian translation by Avram Efros. Using Michelangelo’s words, the composer left a clear and lasting statement about truth, love, death and the artist’s sacred responsibility.

Fascinated by the raw piece of marble out of which an image or a sound has to be carved, Jack Symonds’ new work written for Jeremy, uses the sculptor’s words as a conduit for song in this modern age.

Program: Jack Symonds, In Stone (premiere); Dimitri Shostakovich, Сюита на слова Микеланджело Буонарроти, Op.145.