Anne Sofie von Otter in Sydney
The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
The world fanous mezzo-soprano performs in Sydney with the SSO this week:
The Sydney Consort extends a welcome to all music lovers for its new music series – The Organ Recital. For many years, this early music group has been the ensemble-in-residence at St Augustine’s Catholic Church in Balmain. This new series offers Sydney audiences the opportunity to explore the beauty of the church’s historical pipe organ…
The Balmain Sinfonia conducted by Gary Stavrou opens its 2015 season with an all-French program of music by Bizet, Berlioz and Franck which features Australian mezzo-soprano Ellen Malone. Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 showcases his remarkable gifts for melody, orchestration, rhythmic energy and his ability to capture regional flavors. The incidental music for a 1872 production of…
The defence forces are well-known for the rousing music they perform at ceremonial occasions. Now you can hear them in concert when the Commodores Chamber Ensembles from the Royal Australian Navy Band, Sydney perform a chamber music program featuring works for two flutes, solo vibraphone and a woodwind trio. Six gifted full-time musicians from the…
John Dowland, the poet of the lute and recognised as the greatest English composer of lute music and lute songs was born in 1563 (d,.1626), which makes 2013 the 450th anniversary of his birth – a milestone that is slipping quietly by with barely a lute being tuned – except for a group of Sydney musicians who have…
An appearance in a courtroom is not something that might generally be considered desirable, but for Sydney Camerata this is a cause for celebration. Their upcoming performance of chamber music in the Courtroom of the Justice & Police Museum celebrates 5 years of superb music making. On the programme are three ‘must hear’ works –…
Until Art Song NSW devised its programme of recitals through out the year, there were few regular opportunities for professional singers to perform art song in public recitals and for audiences to hear them. Art Song NSW has filled this desperate need and here in Sydney we now have occasions on which to hear a…