The Australia Ensemble@ UNSW presents a lunchtime concert featuring Connesson’s Disco toccata for clarinet and cello, as well as Ian Munro’s Clarinet Quintet , Bartok’s Suite paysanne hongroise and Brahms’ Hungarian Dance Suite.
Admission is free. Open to the public.
The Sydney Schubert Society presents baritone Barry Ryan OAM and pianist Jeanell Carrigan performing Schubert’s immortal song cycle Winterreise (D911) one of the great Romantic masterpieces and a profound reflection of human fate. , Completed in the autumn of 1827, Winterreise left the composer in a state of exhaustion. According to reports, Schubert had been gravely ill for a long…
The Willoughby Symphony opens its 2018 season with Gala, dazzling Italian-themed concert under Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton AM. This inspirational program includes the powerful and passionate music of Verdi, Rossini’s wit and perennial freshness, Mascagni’s glorious Intermezzo and Respighi’s Pines of Rome with its thunderous climax. Gala will also welcome to the Concert Hall stage the…
One hundred years after her birth in 1912, and her untimely death in 1952 aged 41, the English contralto Kathleen Ferrier remains a revered and much-loved figure. In her honour, mezzo-soprano Prudence Dunstone and pianist Maryleigh Hand present A Tribute to Kathleen Ferrier to recreate some of the aura around Ferrier and the songs she sang. Kathleen Ferrier started her…
Gain invaluable insights into the artistry of pianist Stephen Hough when Musica Viva and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, supported by the Sydney Conservatorium Association, offer the opportunity to attend a Masterclass with Stephen Hough. Observe him working with talented music students in an open lesson format. Tickets: Free entry but bookings essential at musicaviva.com.au/masterclasses…
The Streeton Trio will ‘jazz it up’ at their upcoming edition of the popular Prelude in Tea Sunday afternoon concert series with Sydney couple violinist Emma Jardine and pianist Benjamin Kopp joined by guest cellist, Blair Harris from Melbourne. Together they explore the works of composers who were inspired by jazz in this fun collection of…
50 is the new 30! Strathfield Symphony at 50 years young is looking towards the next 50 years. The orchestral players come together and perform through a love of music, collaboration and community. This concert, The Future, is all about bigger and better future and you can’t get much bigger than Mahler’s Symphony No.5. And…