The Flinders Quartet launches its 2014 season with with a program of chamber music that is both popular and central to the repertoire. Based in Melbourne, the ensemble comprises violinists Helen Ayres and Shane Chen, and founding members violist Helen Ireland and cellist Zoe Ireland. Helen Ayres explains that the repertoire by Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvořák. has…
Opera Australia Young Artist soprano Natalie Aroyan will give a recital centred around the Art Songs of Richard Strauss whose 150th birthday is being celebrated this year. Accompanied at the piano by Andrew Greene, Natalie Aroyan’s recital will include his first collection of printed songs, published as his Opus 10, which contains some of his…
The Song Company presents Madrigalesque: Le Parole as part of The Independent Theatre’s ‘A Prelude in Tea Song’ Concert Series. The Song Company hand-pick some of their favourite repertoire in the first of an exciting singer-selected series in which the ensemble will feature the a cappella ‘hits’ of the 16th and 17th centuries. The now legendary Independent…
Legendary Japanese collective, Marginal Consort, will perform a rare site-specific concert for Carriageworks. Building on the experimental music traditions of Japan, they create deeply spatial works that sit at the nexus of performance and installation. Kazuo Imai, Kei Shii, Masami Tada and Tomonao Koshikawa together craft instruments and create evolving sound environments that are entirely site…
The music of master Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt is explored in an intimate performance by pianist Chris Cartner. Coincidentally it is the birth anniversary of Liszt on October 22nd (b 1811). From the exquisite tenderness of the D-flat Consolation, through the devilish drama of the Mephisto Waltz, and with all the exuberance of…
The Choir and Orchestra of St James’ King Street presents Songs of the Divine, the exquisite sacred music of J S Bach and Handel in their inaugural concert for 2014. Under the direction of Warren Trevelyan-Jones, the ensemble will perform J S Bach’s Mass in A BWV 234, the motet Der Gerechte kommt um, attributed to Bach, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus….