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The Idea of North brings its trademark silken smooth vocal blend to Camelot for the first time since 2016 showcasing their most recent and best iteration yet. With the addition of incredible vocal percussionist Kai Kitamura, the group’s repertoire, sound and musical expression have broadened in ways that make your experience of what these singers…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra presents Ayres & Graces in 5 live performances and a digital premiere. Set on a transformed City Recital Hall stage, experience a dreamworld of colour and sound as the Brandenburg musicians perform before an impressive stage-wide LED screen, illuminated with stunning images curated by Australian designer Silvana Azzi Heras. The performers: Melissa…
ARIA Award winning a capella quartet ‘The Idea of North’ returns to their Sydney city haunt, The Basement this week. Alto Naomi Crellin is back singing with soprano Sally Cameron, tenor Nick Begbie and Andrew Piper, after taking time out for maternity leave. Here’s what The Basement has to say about The Idea of North: “They have a distinct sound and style,…
Thoroughbass performs Fans, fantasias and fandangos – music from or influenced by the Spanish baroque with its vigorous rhythms, outlandish dissonance and heart-felt melodies which express the soul of Spain. Thoroughbass musicians Shaun Ng (viola da gamba), Shaun Warden (violin) and Diana Weston (harpsichord) brings the past into the present in this concert with present-day music based…
The Balmain Sinfonia makes a long-awaited return in June with its second 2013 concert in its newly refurbished home, the Macquarie Theatre at Macquarie University, North Ryde. The centrepiece of the concert is that rarest of beasts, a piece featuring a bass trombone solo – the Rhapsody by American composer Eric Ewazen. The rest of the program includes the popular Waltz from Gounod’s Faust,…
The defence forces are well-known for the rousing music they perform at ceremonial occasions. Now you can hear them in concert when the Commodores Chamber Ensembles from the Royal Australian Navy Band, Sydney perform a chamber music program featuring works for two flutes, solo vibraphone and a woodwind trio. Six gifted full-time musicians from the…