The Marais Project performs The Fantastical Life of Daniel Solander: Australia’s First Swede, featuring Swedish folk and art music and songs from the Australian Colonial Era with dramatised excerpts from the diaries of Sir Joseph Banks & Captain James Cook.
The Australian Haydn Ensemble celebrates a decade of performance with the launch of its 10th anniversary season in Mozart:Viennese Star a program of sparkling chamber works from the years of Mozart’s rise to stardom in 1780s Vienna.
Flautist Jane Rutter and pianist Simon Tedeschi appear in concert, live and online, playing music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Schumann and Gershwin.
Bach Akademie Australia's The Weapons of Rhetoric concerts in June feature not only Bach’s celebrated Double Violin Concerto, but also writer-actor Jonathan Biggins and urbane rhetorician Jonathan Horton QC, one of Australia’s outstanding legal brains, as guest presenter-performers. The duo will demonstrate the art of rhetoric and the relationship between speech and music in theatrical debate interwoven throughout the program.
The Australian Haydn Ensemble presents Haydn Speaks featuring acclaimed thespian John Bell telling the story of the rise of this great composer. This tour takes in Sydney, Canberra and New South Wales regional centres. It will also be broadcast on Australian Digital Concert Hall on Sunday 16 October August 5pm with the livestream available for 72 hours after concert.