‘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…
Sydney Youth Orchestras present Live at Level 28, a one night overlooking VIVID Sydney from the 28th floor of the Deutsche Bank Building. Guests will have access to the exquisite Allens’ private contemporary Australian art collection, paired with music from some of Sydney’s finest young musicians, curated by Umberto Clerici, Principal Cello of the Sydney…
Sydney Chamber Choir’s first performance for 2016 takes the audience to the excesses and restraints, peaks and troughs of 13th and 14th century Europe, which still influence our thinking today. The program features Carl Orff’s exciting two-piano/percussion version of the profane Carmina Burana conducted by Richard Gill OAM, with baritone Alexander Knight. Says Mr Gill “Here’s…
Cellist Umberto Clerici and guitarist Karin Schaupp are to undertake an extensive concert tour under the auspices of Music Viva, to launch their new album, Wayfaring, recorded on the ABC label (ABC 481 6811). The Italian-Australian Clerici and the German-Australian Schaupp met when they first played together at the biennial Musica Viva Festival several years ago. ‘It…
The Australian World Orchestra will celebrate its 5-year anniversary in 2016 with two performances conducted by Alexander Briger and Stanley Dodds. The programmes feature works by Beethoven, Dvorak, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Concerto for 8 double basses The Witching Hour. Following the success of the 2015 season under Sir Simon…
Soprano Nadia Piave is joined by flautist Tina Marsden, guitarists Gino Pengue and Robert Clancy and Pino Scuro in recitation in Gracias a la vida, an evening of songs from the ‘cancionero iberico’..,,,and remembering Chile, Sept 11, 1973. On the programme are the songs of Rodrigo, De Falla, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Almeida, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra and Horacio Salinas along with the poems…