Soulfood a capella ensemble is running a masterclass on arranging, offering a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at creating that signature Soulfood sound.
Soulfood’s Artistic Director, Melissa Kenny will conduct this three-hour during which four original arrangements ranging from up tempo to ballads will be deconstructed and put together again. Participants will then create a new piece in five-part harmony and hear it come to life with some of Soulfood’s singers live on stage.
Soulfood invites people with all levels of experience whether they are new to arranging, looking to build on existing skills, or just wanting to see some of the work that goes on behind this award-winning a cappella group.
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall presents its Faces of Sydney Festival, on August 1-2, supporting and showcasing great, Sydney-based artists in collaboration with UNSW and Kawai Australia. MDCH will stream four stunning recitals live from the Sir John Clancy Auditorium at UNSW, co-curated by MDCH Co-Director Chris Howlett and Sydney double bassist Kirsty McCahon, with all…
Susannah Lawergren and Alistair Nelson perform a short lunchtime recital of Handel, Debussy, Massenet, Rachmaninoff, Stenhammar and Dvorak. Alistair Nelson has been Acting Organist at St. James’ Church since September 2011 where he is enjoying accompanying the splendid Choir of St James, indulging his love of organ improvisation, appreciating the fine liturgy at St. James…
Drumming ensemble TaikOz presents The Spirit Dancer, in which they will be joined by esteemed guests Iwasaki Onikenbai Hozonkai who will perform the dazzlingly vibrant Onikenbai, a traditional Japanese Buddhist dance, the only Australian performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. This program showcases TaikOz performing a Buddhist prayer dance which pays homage to ancestral spirits at the midsummer Lantern…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra under Artistic Director and Lead Violin, Richard Tognetti, presents Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 in D minor, opus 125 in the climax of its cycle of Beethoven symphonies. It is, of course, the ‘Choral’ Symphony and it is the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge directed by Graham Ross, that will perform with the orchestra…
TaikOz is thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration with award-winning media arts producer and sound artist, Tokyo Love-In: Origin of O. Incorporating video, photography and graphics with computer-generated music and live performance, Origin of O fuses the heart thumping, primal beats of the taiko with digitally created soundscapes. Explore the organic beauty of the taiko, as demonstrated by the TaikOz…
When Carl Czerny learnt piano from Beethoven, he was about 10 years old. Young and impressionable, it is possible that Beethoven played to him a piano trio he was composing. The young Czerny apparently described it (in the vernacular of the day) as ‘spooky’, giving Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D major, opus 70 No 1 the nickname by which it continues…