‘Carolfest’ with Sydney University Musical Society


The Metropolitan Orchestra with Conductor and Artistic Director Sarah-Grace Williams celebrates its seventh birthday with a world premiere performance from acclaimed Australian composer Sean O’Boyle AM, based on Mendelssohn’s work titled Fantasy on a Theme of Mendelssohn and a performance of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony no 4, which was performed by TMO in their first ever concert back…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra this month, celebrates and acknowledges three decades outstanding leadership by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti. The ACO is one of Australia’s proudest cultural exports, with a global profile. Despite the straitened times, the ACO pays homage to Tognetti with treasures from their archive and a week of HomeCasts. The programme: Monday 15…
Opera Australia tenor Brad Cooper is preparing to sing the role of the Second Jew in Richard Strauss’ Salome opening in Sydney on March 6th, with a star cast of young Australian singers and a couple of foreign superstars. Brad also performed in Wozzeck, and last year in The Nose. In this presentation by the Sydney Opera Society,…
American saxophonist Branford Marsalis has long been regarded as one of the world’s greatest living musicians. Marsalis will make his much-anticipated debut with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) this May, when he will perform a Latin American inspired program with the orchestra featuring the music of Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, and Ginastera, directed by ACO Principal Violin Satu…
Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud joins the Australian Chamber Orchestra as soloist and guest director for a September national tour, Grieg and Beyond, which celebrates the music of Norway’s most well-known composer. The concert includes a world premiere by Ross Edwards and the Australian premieres of music by Kraggerud himself. Henning Kraggerud is Artistic Director of the Arctic Philharmonic…
Hot on the heels of her involvement with the Brooklyn Academy of Music performances of the Philip Glass Etudes, double ARIA Award winning pianist, composer, conductor and educator Sally Whitwell is performing the music of Glass at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art in association with their exhibition of works by American painter and photographer Chuck Close. …