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Omega Ensemble Premieres Gordon Kerry Clarinet Quintet Online
If you missed Omega Ensemble’s live from the Sydney Opera House, you can now watch the world premiere of Gordon Kerry’s Clarinet Quintet on-demand, broadcast from the Joan Sutherland Theatre to your living room. Composed in five movements, performers David Rowden (clarinet), Anna Da Silva Chen (violin), Tim Yu (violin), Neil Thompson (viola) and Paul…
Graham Abbott Explores Béla Bartók’s Piano Music On Classics Unlocked
Popular broadcaster Graham Abbott’s fifteenth episode of his fascinating podcast series ‘Classics Unlocked’, is available now on YouTube, Apple Music and all other podcast platforms. Every episode is also hosted on the Classics Direct website. In this episode of ‘Classics Unlocked’, Graham explores the piano music of Béla Bartók whose music was strongly influenced by…
Cousin Quartet Win Musica Viva’s Inaugural Strike A Chord National Chamber Music Championship
Congratulations to the Cousin Quartet who are the inaugural winners of Musica Viva’s Strike A Chord, the first National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school ensembles. Performing live from the City Recital Hall in Sydney, the group claimed the Robert Salzer Prize, worth $5, 000. This inaugural Strike A Chord Grand Final was livestreamed from…
Musica Viva Announces Strike A Chord Finalists
Musica Viva has announced the performers in the grand finals of Strike A Chord, the very first National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school ensembles. The 12 finalist ensembles will compete streamed across Australia at 2pm AEST on Saturday 12 September, 2020. After an intense period of listening and deliberation, the jury selected the twelve…
Lise Davidsen Live In Concert
In the latest of the Met Stars Live in Concert series, soprano Lise Davidsen offers a program of the soaring arias and songs that have rocketed her to stardom around the world: selections from Wagner’s Tannhäser, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, as well as Scandinavian songs by Sibelius and Grieg. Davidsen first came to…
Create NSW Opens Applications For Country Arts Support Program 2021
Create NSW has called for applications for the Country Arts Support Program (CASP) 2021 for regional NSW not-for-profit organisations and local collectives. Funding is available to support regional NSW community arts and cultural development through grants of up to either $3,000 or $5,000, for projects including arts activities as part of community festivals or events,…
Latest reviews
Concert Review: Midori And Mozart/ Midori Seiler/ Australian Haydn Ensemble
Midori and Mozart Midori Seiler/Australian Haydn Ensemble Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney COnservatorium of Music, 24 November, 2019. A programme of violin concerti and symphonies by Mozart and Haydn featured in Midori and Mozart, a refined afternoon concert by the Australian Haydn Ensemble, led from the violin by Guest Director and soloist Midori Seiler. The AHE’s Artistic…
Chamber Opera Review: Acis And Galatea/ Ensemble Polyphème
Acis and Galatea/ Ensemble Polyphème Paddington Uniting Church 10 November 2019 Written by Alex Siegers Ensemble Polyphème is Sydney’s newest “historically informed” performance ensemble” founded by harpsichordist Nathan Cox and tenor Nathan Bryon. For its inaugural season the ensemble presented Acis and Galatea, (HWV 49), a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text…