Alex Byrne (flute) and Simón Pazos Quintana (piano)
Recitals on the Fringe 2025 Season
North Adelaide Baptist Church Hall – Tynte Street, North Adelaide
Run Time: estimated 1 hour
Program subject to change
Program
Fantasia no. 6 in D minor for solo flute TWV 40:7
Aria for Flute and Piano Op. 48 no. 1
Phillipe Gaubert (1879 – 1941)
Sonata no. 3 in G major for Flute and Piano
i. Allegretto
ii. Intermède pastorale: Très modèrè
iv. Final: Joyeux – Allegretto
Edgard Varèse (1883 – 1965)
Density 21.5 (solo)
Jacques Ibert (1890 – 1962)
Flute Concerto
ii. Andante
Henri Dutilleux (1916 – 2013)
Sonatine for Flute and Piano
| 7′ | 8′ | 13′ | 4′ | 8′ | 9′ |
ABOUT ALEX
Alex Byrne is an honours student at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, having recently completed his Bachelor of Music (Advanced) – Classical Performance course under the tutelage of Dr Julia Grenfell, and previously Elizabeth Koch AM. Alex recently made his concerto debut with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra (of which he was previously a member), performing Mozart’s Flute Concerto in D major.
Alex is a casual musician with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and has played in the Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra as well as being selected as a member of the Australian Youth Orchestra Camp 2024. Alex was recently selected as a fellow for the Recitals Australia program and has experienced successes in the Adelaide Eisteddfods. He has received numerous awards and scholarships including the Victor Edgeloe Scholarship for Woodwind, the Cowan Family Grant, Robert Brown Grant, the David Cubbin Medallion, and he received first prize in the Elder Conservatorium Top Class 2024 competition.
ABOUT SIMÓN
Simón Pazos Quintana is a Spanish-born, Adelaide-based classical pianist, accompanist and teacher.
He obtained his Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide, under the tutelage of Professor Stefan Ammer. In 2018, he made his concerto debut with the Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of maestro James Lowe. Later that year, he was awarded the Peter Schodde Memorial Piano Scholarship, with which he travelled throughout Germany, Austria and England, playing for highly respected professors and performers to further his technical abilities and musicianship.
Upon his return to Adelaide, Simón was a finalist in the 2019, 2021 and 2023 Geoffrey Parsons
Awards for piano accompaniment. He accompanies classes and exams in the Elder Conservatorium, where he is also a piano teacher as part of the Open Music Academy. He is a sought-after accompanist and regularly features in the Recitals Australia lunchtime concerts.
Simón completed his performance-based PhD last year under the supervision of pianist Konstantin Shamray. The doctorate was centred around recordings of the full works for solo piano by composer Aleksandr Mosolov and was awarded with a Dean’s Commendation.
As a solo recital pianist, Simón performed in the 2024 PianoLab festival, where he presented works by Mosolov, and will feature in the Elder Conservatorium 2025 Lunchtime Concert Series in September, performing works by Dvořák and Turina.