Jane Sheldon with Acacia Quartet and harpist Genevieve Lang, launches her new CD North + South at The Homestead at Bundanon, home of the painter Arthur Boyd.
Tickets: Entry to open Day at Bundanon: $12. Explore the properties, the homestead and Arthur Boyd’s studio. The performance is followed by drinks at The Homestead. Details at www.bundanon.com.au
Soprano Nadia Piave is joined by flautist Tina Marsden, guitarists Gino Pengue and Robert Clancy and Pino Scuro in recitation in Gracias a la vida, an evening of songs from the ‘cancionero iberico’..,,,and remembering Chile, Sept 11, 1973. On the programme are the songs of Rodrigo, De Falla, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Almeida, Victor Jara, Violeta Parra and Horacio Salinas along with the poems…
This year, the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award celebrates 70 years of discovering some of Australia’s finest talents. The final rounds of the competition will be held in Adelaide with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra over 10 days in August. Taking the form of a ‘mini-festival’ the competition includes 7 public concerts in 10…
The amber tones of the viola embellish the core musicians of TRIOZ when viola player Yvette Goodchild joins pianist Kathy Selby, violinist Niki Vasilakis and cellist Emma-Jane Murphy for their “Emerald Crossing” tour which comes to Sydney city (the City Recital Hall) on Tuesday May 17th at 7 pm and Turramurra on Sunday 15th March…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra powers on into the middle of its spectacular 2019 “In Celebration” season with a musical ‘rocket’ amid a firmament of stars! Mannheim Rocket transports listeners back to the explosive birth of the modern symphonic style of Mannheim in the late 18th century. The cutting-edge orchestral sinfonias of Stamitz and…
Hailed as the greatest tenor of our time, Jonas Kaufmann returns to Sydney in August to make his Australian operatic debut for Opera Australia, taking the challenging title role in a concert presentation of Wagner’s Parsifal in three Sydney performances. In 2014, Kaufmann performed a memorable recital series in Australia, in his inaugural tour of this…
The 2014 Aurora Festival opens with some of Australia’s finest composers and performers, amongst them Australian saxophonist, James Nightingale, Roland Peelman, Daryl Pratt, Claire Edwards, didgeridoo player Mark Atkins, members of The NOISE, Ensemble Offspring and the Sydney Conservatorium Modern Music Ensemble. They will also perform music by Alex Pozniak, The NOISE, Ekrem Mulayim and…