Friday’s ACO Homecast features Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and Principal Violin Satu Vänskä performing in a new release of the music of JS Bach, Paganini and Leclair from their Manly home.
The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) with its artistic director and chief conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, welcome the renowned percussionist, Claire Edwardes to perform the world premiere of Daniel Rojas’ Chamber Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra. The Chilean born Australian composer has created this work especially for The Metropolitan Orchestra. Claire Edwardes is recognised internationally as one of the most important percussionists of her generation….
The Australia Ensemble will begin its 2020 season with a powerful program, Storm and Tempest. Performing with guest artists, the ensemble will explore the tumult of stormy weather, tempestuous emotion, and the promise of new things rising from the ruins of the old. Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin channels a revolutionary spirit and the anarchy of…
Selected as one of the top 20 choirs in the world by Gramophone Magazine in 2011, the world-renowned British early music vocal ensemble, The Tallis Scholars will be touring Australia in October and November of this year. Founded in 1973, by Peter Phillips who continues to direct the ensemble, The Tallis Scholars have established themselves…
The Apollo Opera Collective presents George Frideric Handel’s Ariodante in partnership with the Sydney Baroque Music Festival. This thrilling modern production of a rarely performed work, uses historically informed performance practice to explore the twisted and dangerous love story of Ariodante and Ginevra, under the direction of Anthea Hewett. The Apollo Opera Collective is an exciting new…
Composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin, and her long-time collaborator, pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska join forces to showcase their formidable talents in Butterflying, a performance in duet, playing the music of Kats-Chernin. With four hands on one piano, the two pianists will play new treasures and old favourites. Elena Kats-Chernin has created works for choir, chamber ensemble and opera including…
Pinchgut Opera performs live on ABC Classic in a performance curated by Artistic Director Erin Helyard, featuring a selection of musical pieces written by a youthful Handel during his time studying in Italy. Watch and listen as Pinchgut Opera performs Handel in Italy live, as part of ABC Classic’s baroque-fest. “Handel was only twenty-one when Ferdinando…