The Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt will present a Masterclass for Musica Viva during her visit to Sydney. The public are welcome to this rare opportunity to learn from the legendary musician.
Tickets: $20 (Adults), $5 (Teachers/Students)
Opera Australia presents Great Opera Hits their annual series of Sunday afternoon concerts featuring favourite opera arias. Great Opera Hits features some of the classics of opera, amongst them, Brindisi,the drinking song from La traviata, Au fond du temple saint, the duet from Bizet’s The Pearlfishers (Les Pêcheurs de perles) and arias from Puccini’s La Boheme and…
Join four of Sydney’s finest young singers in a recital of some of the greatest song cycles in the vocal repertoire. Accompanied by pianist Mikey Curtain, tenors Kaine Hayward and Joel Scott, with baritones Jared Lillehagen and Andrew Williams, will perform music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Mahler. There will be a complimentary glass…
For most of us, the sun rises in the east. For contemporary music fans, dawn happens in Sydney’s west where the aptly named Aurora Festival of Living Music launches on May 4th. Running till the 13th of May the 4th Aurora festival is one of the few arenas which gives voice to living Australian composers of contemporary chamber music. Inaugurated in 2006 by…
Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Sam Allchurch with Joshua Ryan. Organist presents Music on Music, a programme in which music holds a mirror up to itself, revealing new resonances. From the purity of Josquin, Byrd and Palestrina to the humanity of Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and the sheer delight of Bach’s motet Singet dem Herrn, this program of music about music takes us deep…
After the stunning success of Cavalli’s Giasone in December 2013 and already into its second decade of uncompromisingly superb productions, Pinchgut Opera presents its first ever mid-winter production, The Chimney Sweep (Der Rauchfangkehrer) by Antonio Salieri. Conducted once more by the electrifying Erin Helyard, and directed by Mark Gaal, Pinchgut audiences again have the opportunity to hear a rarely…
Australia’s oldest and most famous early music group The Renaissance Players directed by its founder and international doyen of early music, Associate Professor Winsome Evans BEM OAM, presents the 36th Runnymede Pop Festival, a new 2014 program of medieval European music and poetry. The line-up for this concert series includes singers Jessica O’Donoghue and Mitchell…