Melbourne Digital Concert Hall’s Sydney season presents violinist Emma Jardine with pianist Benjamin Kopp,performing form the National Art School.
After a brief hiatus during the early part of 2013, new music vocal ensemble Halcyon is back in collaboration with the New Music Network to present The Journeys. The concert features two major works, performed by female voices, harp, narrator and percussion with projected images and silhouettes by visual media artist Michael Bates. The two hauntingly beautiful…
Opera Australia Young Artist Jonathan Abernethy will perform selections from Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with pianist Andrew Greene as part of the Lunchtime Concert Series at St James’ King Street. Jonathan made his very successful mainstage debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year and is covering for Don Ottavio in…
For their 2017 Lenten concert, the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence will be performing J. S. Bach’s incomparable Mass in B Minor. Written for 5-part chorus with orchestra and soloists, this setting of the Latin Mass was completed in 1749, the year before his death. It was Bach’s last finished work. Dr Neil McEwan…
Richard Gill guides you through the music of Chopin, a composer who truly made the piano sing, with a full performance of the beautiful Piano Concerto No.2. Also on the program is the brilliant waltz from the ballet Les Sylphides, derived from CHopin’s piano music and transformed for orchestra. Richard Gill – Conductor Raymond Yong – Piano Program: CHOPIN Les…
The Sydney Youth Orchestra, led by Chief Conductor, Alexander Briger AO, injects a fresh new energy into Beethoven’s majestic Symphony No 5 which is coupled with Copeland’s vibrant suite from the 1944 ballet Appalachian Spring – a nod to the classic simplicity of musical Americana. Join Christopher Lawrence, Chief Artistic Advisor in a pre-concert talk. Bookings
With its roots in early music, Thoroughbass presents French courtly music and song, featuring the richly amber tones of the viola da gamba – an instrument beloved by Bach and by the French – from an era characterised by formality, procedure and excess, but also subtlety and ambiguity. Is this the ultimate in refinement and bon gout or mannered…
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