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:
Soprano Ellen Winhall presents the first of her recitals in series of classic works for unaccompanied voice. Called Recitation I, this is the first concert in Sydney and indeed, in Australia, for the recently arrived British born soprano. Exploring how the voice can be used as a flexible instrument, the programme includes seminal works, amongst them, Luciano Berio’s famous Sequenza III, a selection…
Hoang Pham, the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year returns to Sydney with a piano recital titled Mostly Chopin, in which he plays a broad selection of Chopin’s most famous works including the Ballade in G minor, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Scherzo in B-flat minor and a selection of nocturnes, waltzes and mazurkas. As a chamber music bonus,…
The Music Performance Unit at the University of New South Wales presents a free lunch hour workshop on the music of Czechoslovakia by Natalie Shea. Natalie Shea trained as a linguist, teacher, translator, singer and musicologist – all skills which she is delighted to be able to place at the service of music. She is currently…
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…
The Australia Quartet presents a programme of Halloween themed music with a one-off concert on Thursday 31 October. Schoenberg’s gothic masterpiece Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) anchors a programme which includes a world premiere and performance by Elena Kats-Chernin. In a unique collaboration, and a rare opportunity to hear her perform, Kats-Chernin will join the…
Members of Sirius Ensemble will be presenting a concert for wind trio and piano at Lane Cove Music, comprising a selection of duos, trios and quartets by J.S Bach, Robert Schumann, W.A Mozart, Astor Piazzolla, Tony Wheeler, Mikhail Glinka and Elaine Fine. The Performers: Ian Sykes (clarinet), Melissa Coleman (flute), Alison Evans (bassoon) and Benjamin…