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This week, Stefan Duwe, viola player with Acacia Quartet shares his insights into the music of Beethoven. A performer and a teacher, Stefan was born in Oldenburg, Germany. He has worked with many orchestras including the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Folkwang Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Hungarica, Philharmonie Essen, Düsseldorfer Sinfoniker and Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In Australia,…
Sydney-based chamber music group, Omega Ensemble has announced Norman Gillespie as incoming Chair of the Board.
Gillespie will join the Omega Ensemble board in December 2024, after serving ten years as Chair of Pinchgut Opera.
The dynamics of a small music ensemble have always been intriguing – remember Vikram Seth’s 1999 novel An Equal Music? More recently movies like Quartet and A Late Quartet have revisited the theme. Zoe Knighton, cellist with the Flinders Quartet writes about her experiences in Classic Melbourne. The Flinders Quartet performs at the Utzon…
Twelve finalists performing on the oboe, flute, violin and piano have been selected to compete in the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year finals for 2014 to take place in Adelaide in August. Representing New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, the young musicians Andrew Kawai, Anna Da Silva Chen, Anne-Marie Johnson, Catherine Gregory, David Soo, Glenn Christensen, Grace…
Watched by more than 500 thousand viewers on ABC TV, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo marched into Sydney’s ANZ Stadium in October 2019, with over 1500 performers from 14 countries coming together for the largest Tattoo ever staged in its 69-year history – only the fifth time that the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has left…
When Synergy Percussion under its Artistic Director Timothy Constable presents Masterpieces of Time, later this August, some of the music performed will pre-date by centuries, the instruments on which it will be performed. Herr Bach, Monsieur Couperin and Mr Handel will meet the marimba, vibraphones, bells, gongs, mechanical music boxes, prepared piano and steel drums. It doesn’t make the original versions obsolete, but…