‘Carolfest’ with Sydney University Musical Society


The new music director of the Sydney Chamber Choir, Richard Gill, will conduct the choir’s landmark 40th anniversary concert Six Times Three, featuring a unique mix of six Australian a cappella works and early music classics. Richard Gill’s drive is to bring alive the links between a cappella music of the high Renaissance and Impressionists, in tandem with Australian choral…
Composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin, and her long-time collaborator, pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska join forces to showcase their formidable talents in Butterflying, a performance in duet, playing the music of Kats-Chernin. With four hands on one piano, the two pianists will play new treasures and old favourites. Elena Kats-Chernin has created works for choir, chamber ensemble and opera including…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Principal Cellist Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve features in a double-bill on ACO HomeCasts this weekend. Following his solo HomeCast on Friday July 17, Valve performs Debussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, recorded during the ACO’s 2017 ACO Soloists tour. The sonata was written in 1915, three years before the composer’s death, and…
Acacia Quartet is playing the last concert in their 2019 concert series with The American – a program of Mozart, Chance and Dvorak. They would love to welcome guests to a great Sunday afternoon as part of the Independent’s ‘A Prelude in Tea Concert’, featuring a scrumptious afternoon tea served from 2:30 – 3:30pm. The…
Musica Viva Sessions presents unique music in unexpected spaces, inviting you to outside the ordinary and enter a series of intimate musical encounters in unexpected settings all over Sydney. The 2019 season opens on 28 August with a chance to explore the Sydney Jewish Museum, then immerse yourself in the electro-acoustic brilliance of harpist Alice…
The Leichhardt Espresso Choir presents the Australian premiere Luminosity, and the world premiere of Magnificat, at St James Church. The concert will be followed by Easter-inspired drinks. Luminosity was composed by James Whitbourn in 2008. The text, compiled and edited by the composer, centers on the beauty of creation expressed by luminaries down the ages. Texts are taken…