Harbour Light Acacia Quartet Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House November 9, 2016 One of the gifts of an ensemble playing the music of a living composer is that the two are able to build a creative partnership, ensuring that the writing is suited to the musicians and in return, the composer is able to coach…
Harbour Light, Acacia Quartet’s final concert in their 2016 Utzon Room series, celebrates new string quartets by multi-award winning Australian composers Joe Twist, Sally Whitwell and Nick Wales alongside favourites by American composers Philip Glass, George Gershwin and Bernard Herrmann. The works by Sally Whitwell and Joe Twist, especially commissioned by Acacia for this occasion, touch…
The Acacia Quartet will be joined by pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska in a concert presented by Hunter’s Hill Music. Together they will perform one of the cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire, Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quintet. Also on the programme, violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase will perform Ludwig…