In the three years since its founding in 2009, the then Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra has accumulated a busy performing schedule and grown rapidly in scope, performing across genres and with many respected soloists, amongst them, clarinetist Francesco Celata, cellist Emma-Jane Murphy, tenors Rosario La Spina and Henry Choo, baritone Barry Ryan, sopranos Anke Höppner and Teresa La Rocca and…
As part of its Indy series and Leichhardt Council’s Site and Sound Festival, the Metropolitan Orchestra presents a chamber music concert featuring Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet K581 and Dvorak’s String Quartet in F major, no 12, opus 96, the ‘American’. The serenely beautiful clarinet quintet is one of Mozart’s later works, written in 1798 and considered to be typical…
It’s not so old, but already the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra has re-invented itself and will, in future be known as The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO). Here’s the announcement from the orchestra: “It is with great pleasure and excitement that we announce that the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra will officially be rebranded as THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA (TMO) at our next…