Australian Piano Quartet – Love And Death in Liebestod

The Australia Piano Quartet with guest violinist Anna Da Silva Chen, performs a quartet of four works in a programme titled Liebestod.

The Australia Piano Quartet with guest violinist Anna Da Silva Chen, performs a quartet of four works in a programme titled Liebestod.
Continuing a long tradition of carol singing, UNSW’s massed choir, Collegium Musicum, presents its annual Festival of Carols with the Burgundian Consort, the UNSW Handbell Ensemble, violinist Dene Olding, pianist Patrick Keith and organist Lloyd Grant. Bringing its 39th year of choral singing at UNSW to a close, the concert will celebrate the many characters of the Nativity,…
Opera Australia’s summer program opens with Gale Edwards’ production of La Bohème, a revival of Puccini’s classic bohemian love story presented against the backdrop of 1930s Berlin. Opening on New Year’s Eve at the Sydney Opera House, there will be fireworks at 9 o’clock, during intermission and afterwards guests can join the midnight celebrations at…
Musica Viva presents the brilliant young duo, violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Andrew Tyson who are making their first tour of Australia. Their program includes works by Mozart, Janáček and Saint-Saëns, as well as a world premiere by Australian composer Jane Stanley that was commissioned by Musica Viva’s Hildegard Project. Their tour program calls…
The Choir of St James’, directed by Warren Trevelyan-Jones, performs Capitivity & Freedom, music for Lent by William Byrd, Philip Moore and many others, exploring themes of captivity and freedom, personal struggle and renewal. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in April 1945, only weeks before the camp was liberated. Philip Moore’s sensitive…
New York boy band the JACK Quartet will be performing at Carriageworks this August. With a reputation for virtuosity and fearless innovation, this string quartet pushed the boundaries with The Washington Post saying “The string quartet may be a 250-year-old contraption, but young, brilliant groups like the JACK Quartet are keeping it thrillingly vital.” Making its Australian debut…
Next year, Opera Australia presents King Roger by the Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1882 – 1937). Get the story behind this rarely performed opera when the Sydney Opera Society presents a talk by Dr David Schwartz on this 20th century masterpiece. Opera Australia’s presentation in January 2017, is a co-production from the Royal Opera Covent Garden, directed by Kasper Holten….