Shows

TaikoDeck at The Reginald

October 24, 2011October 24, 2011

This week at The Reginald, Australia’s premiere taiko drumming ensemble TaikOz, presents TaikoDeck, a collaboration with Melbourne DJ and producer DJ M-Royce in a fusion of the old with the new. Traditional bamboo flutes will join the soundscape.

The Reginald is the Seymour centre’s newest theatre. Previously called ‘The Downstairs’ it bears one of the middle names of philanthropist Everest York Seymour who left a very large bequest supporting the arts in Sydney.

Tickets $20-$27;

Book online at http://secure.seymourboxoffice.com.au/tickets/production.aspx?PID=62725

or call (02) 9351 7940

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‘Top of the Pops’ – classical favourites with Simon Tedeschi and the Omega ensemble

November 2, 2012

Pianist Simon Tedeschi is joins forces with the Sydney Omega Ensemble for Top of the Pops, a collection of popular classics from Beethoven, Bruch, Schubert and Gershwin, as well as a few surprises. Simon Tedeschi is one of the finest artists of his generation. He has performed for royalty and at major concert venues throughout the US, UK, Europe,…

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‘Red dragonflies…like a ripple’. Taikoz presents….

February 27, 2012February 29, 2012

Rhythm is fundamental to life. Without it there would be no heartbeat, no pulse, no phases of the moon, no night or day, summer or winter. It is fundamental to music around the world whether generated by the tabla, the snare drum, the timpani or the djembe. Drums create the beat to which music flows. In an…

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The Musician Project Orchestra Returns With Bruckner

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017

The Musician Project Orchestra and conductor Max McBride are back in 2017, returning to the music of Anton Bruckner. The concert opens with Wagner’s passionate reverie, Siegfried Idyll, followed by the original edition of Bruckner’s Third Symphony (1873) which he amended twice more in 1873 and 1877 and which presages the style of his mighty eighth…

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UNSW’s Collegium Musicum Choir Performs Handel’s Messiah

May 25, 2016

UNSW’s choir, the Collegium Musicum Choir performs Handel’s Messiah in its inaugural concert of the 2016 season, conducted by choral director Sonia Maddock and accompanied by an orchestra which includes core members of the Australia Ensemble @UNSW. The 80-voice ensemble performs this pillar of the choral repertoire with its breathtaking arias and choruses, including the immortal Hallelujah chorus and…

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WSO performs lobgesang – Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata

July 7, 2011July 19, 2011

Felix Mendelssohns’s most prolific output was not for orchestras, but for choirs and solo voices. A recent feature in Classic FM magazine estimates his orchestral works as comprising just 12 % of his opus whilst choral and vocal music represent the single largest genre at a sizeable 33%. Most of his best writing is said…

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The Fieri Consort: Out Of The Shadows

August 23, 2017

The Fieri Consort, from the UK makes its second tour to Australia with a concert programme Out of the Shadows reflecting on the transition from darkness to light. The music moves from the intensity of the murderous Prince Carlo Gesualdo and the tortuous chromaticism of Lassus’ Sibylline Prophecies to the searingly beautiful harmonies of 21st-century MacMillan. The programme also includes some…

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