‘Carolfest’ with Sydney University Musical Society


Sydney: The City Recital Hall Thursday 4 July, 7:00pm Turramurra: Turramurra Uniting Church – Sunday 7 July, 2:00pm Selby and Friends promise a mix of passion and romance when they present three works of by a trio of composers from the Romantic era – Edvard Grieg’s Andante con moto in C minor EG116 for piano trio, Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio…
Learn how to play the awe-inspiring taiko, by joining members of TaikOz for a 90 minute Taiko is for Everyone drumming workshop in Sydney. Enjoy this unique experience that will allow you to feel the awesome power of the taiko, the vitality of the rhythm and the fun of making music in a group. Taiko…
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…
Judging by its popularity amongst listeners of ABC Classic FM as Australia’s most popular composition by Mozart, the Clarinet Concerto in A Major K.622 is listened to an awful lot. Some of these performances would be on a modern ‘liquorice stick’ clarinet, not the basset clarinet, which was the instrument of Mozart’s time for which he would have written the…
In tonight’s episode of International Choral Insights, two of Australia’s great choral educators converse as Lyn Williams AM sits down with Dr Jonathon Welch AM in Reimagine: Choirs and Social Justice, a discussion about the ways in which choral music is used in the community at all levels and particularly in response to social justice…
Melbourne based vocal group Invenio, present a free masterclass at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as part of their national tour. Formed by Gian Slater in 2010,the Invenio singers to perform the large commission piece Gone without saying. Since then, Invenio has premiered Gian’s second large work Us and Others, with Speak Percussion in 2011….