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Beethoven 250- Impressions: Nicole van Bruggen
This week, Nicole van Bruggen co-artisitic director and principal clarinet with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO), shares her insights into her experiences with the music of Beethoven. Originally from Sydney, Nicole studied modern clarinet at the Sydney Conservatorium and won a Queen’s Trust Scholarship to continue her studies abroad. She moved to The…
Musica Viva Celebrates 75 Years With Highlights From The Past
Musica Viva is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a swag of memories, sharing clips from some favourite performances over the years. Joyce Yang’s rendition of Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody was a highlight of the 2018 season. Musica Viva welcomed Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang to the stage for a series of solo piano recitals. Renowned for her…
Willoughby Symphony’s Inaugural Online Mini-Concert – Great For The Kids!
To celebrate its new Facebook page, Willoughby Symphony presents a mini virtual concert (hopefully the first of many) – A Spoonful Of Sugar, especially fun for the kids, conducted by George Ellis with soloists from the Pacific Opera alumni. Watch on Facebook and please like and share. You can sing along as well!
Learn From The Best – The First Virtual Benedetti Sessions, Free And Open For Registrations
Violinist Nicola Benedetti has created a project, The Virtual Benedetti Sessions which hopes to offer organisations across the world the opportunity to engage with and together, learn, provide, uplift and excite. Programmes of activity will be available for young musicians, conservatoire and university level music students, instrumental teachers, adult learners, non-instrumentalists, amateur musicians, parents, siblings…
Selby & Friends Chamber Music on Stage & Online
Selby& Friends has broken the ‘living-room broadcast’ barrier with a socially distant concert performance of Mozart, Beethoven and Dvořák, filmed live in Sydney! The first of Kathy’s concerts “Let’s Get Personal” features a piano trio with her friends, Sydney Symphony Orchestra violinist and concertmaster Andrew Haveron and co-principal cellist Umberto Clerici, filmed live on stage…
Ian Whitney Wins Australia Ensemble’s Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship
The Australia Ensemble UNSW has announced the winner of the winner of the Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship for 2020-21. Ian Whitney has been awarded the $10,000 Fellowship, given to an Emerging Composer to write two chamber music works as part of the Australia Ensemble UNSW’s outreach program which fosters greater engagement in and recognition of…
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Concert Review: Music On Music/ Sydney Chamber Choir
Music on Music Sydney Chamber Choir Great Hall, The University of Sydney Saturday 30 March 2019 7.30pm Written by Victoria Watson Sydney Chamber Choir was formed in the 1970s by students of Sydney University. In the decades since, it has evolved into a fine, tightly knit ensemble of musicians, dedicated to presenting choral works that…
Concert Review: Ascension/ Bach Akademie Australia
Ascension, Bach Akademie Australia St Francis of Assissi Church, Paddington, Sydney 29 March, 2019 Despite the innumerable words written about the music of J S Bach, there is nothing that touches the soul quite like hearing it performed by those who understand it best. JS Bach’s music brims with inexplicable harmonies and poignant melodies against…