The Sirius Woodwind Trio comprising flautist Melissa Coleman, clarinettist Ian Sykes and bassoonist Alison Evans presents a short program featuring music by Piston, Greenbaum, Washburn and Szekely as part of the Australia Day recitals at St Stephen’s Uniting Church in Macquarie Street.
The concert is free.
The Sydney Consort’s programme Musical Friends is a reunion of composer colleagues and friends. The concert features the two most predominant musical figures of the eighteenth century – contemporaries Telemann and Handel and showcases their association and friendship. The Sydney Consort comprising Stan w Kornel playing baroque violin & viola d’amore with Monika Kornel at the harpsichord,…
If you’re looking for an evening of exceptional entertainment, tonight, Musica Viva presents the world famous clarinettist Sabine Meyer with the Modigliani String Quartet performing the music of Ian Munro, ( a new commission) Claude Debussy and Johannes Brahms. Meyer performs again on Saturday afternoon 12th November. Meyer shot to prominence when Herbert von Karajan…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Fellows perform jazzy, folky, dancelike and devilish, playful modern masterpieces by Stravinsky, Bartok and Lutoslawski. Inspird by Russian folk traditions, jazz and more, Stravinsky wrote The Soldier’s Tale, the story of a deal with the devil. Originally a music theatre piece, Stravinsky recycled the spiky tangos, waltzes, rags and diabolical fiddling…
Fresh from their tour to Europe, Sydney choral ensemble Bel a cappella presents Brahms’ A German Requiem and Liebeslieder Waltzes and the delightful motet Abendfeir in Vendig by Clara Schumann. Featuring soloists soprano Celeste Lazarenko and bass Alex Knight, with pianists Jo Allan and Michael Curtain and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Richard Miller on Timpani, Musical…
For the fourth tour of the 2012 Selby & Friends concert season, pianist Kathryn Selby is joined by British violinist Elizabeth Layton, former member of the famed Nash Ensemble and leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Australian violist Glen Donnelly and virtuoso cellist Julian Smiles, in a program of masterpiece for piano quartet. The programme includes My Song…
The Palace Gate Orchestra transports you to the grandeur of Russian musical life with its concert on Saturday August 13th. Named after the gates of the magnificent Winter Palace in St Petersburg, home to Russia’s Tsars from 1732 till the revolution in 1917, the orchestra brings you the greats from the Russian repertoire throughout the…