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.
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Taikoz presents Seven Flowers, featuring numerous guest artists including Riley Lee. Seven Flowers is inspired by Noh playwright and theoretician Zeami. The work will explore Zeami’s once-secret 15th Century treatise ‘Fushikaden’. In the first chapter, Zeami describes the seven periods of an artist’s life and work which, in terms of Noh, begins at the tender…
Three singers are through to the finals of the Sydney University Graduate Choir Joan Carden Award. They are Morgan Balfour, soprano, Ashlyn Tymms, mezzo-soprano and Soonki Park, baritone. For the final round of this competition they will perform two arias with orchestral accompaniment. The winner will be announced following adjudication by Miss Joan Carden AO, OBE,…
Ever since its first performance in Leipzig on Good Friday 1724, J.S. Bach’s setting of the St John Passion BWV 245, has been a mainstay of the Lenten musical calendar in both concert hall and church. Bach’s emotive, Baroque setting recounts the harrowing last days of Jesus of Nazareth. A solo narrative of the events leading…
Italian baritone Luca Micheletti makes his Opera Australia debut in the role of the devilish Don Giovanni Sir David McVicar’s highly acclaimed production of Mozart’s eponymous opera. This thrilling gothic, production explores themes of repentance and moral ambivalence. Luca Micheletti is known not only for his magnificent voice, but also his outstanding acting. He brings…
The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams celebrates it first concerts for 2012 this weekend with a performance in Balmain on Saturday night, and one in North Sydney on Sunday afternoon. The Principal Clarinet in the MCO, Andrew Doyle will be the soloist in Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No 1, in F minor opus 73 (1811) in a classical programme which also…
From Handel and Bach to contemporary works by Latvia’s Peteris Vasks and Australia’s Iain Grandage, the Sydney Chamber Choir is presenting Dixit Dominus, a joyous plethora of prayers to life, love, nature, courage and hope. Leading choral conductor, Jonathan Grieves-Smith, Chorus Master of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus and, more recently, Director of Music at Trinity College,…