Trio Dali reviewed
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Haydn Ensemble/Prussian Quartets City Recital Hall, 14 March. Chamber music of Classical refinement and elegance, was the theme in the Australian Haydn Ensemble’s presentation of Prussian Quartets, string quartets by Ignaz Pleyel, W A Mozart and F J Haydn, composers linked inextricably in history. Performed live in Sydney, the concert was also streamed on…
Ensemble Offspring: Hatched Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Thursday, October 30 at 8pm Callum G’Froerer, trumpet/ Jeremy Rose, saxophone/ Claire Edwardes, percussion/ Jason Noble, clarinet/ Lamorna Nightingale, flute The Hatched Academy has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for its two inaugural ‘hatchlings’, Melbourne-based trumpeter Callum G’Froerer and composer/saxophonist Jeremy Rose. Ensemble Offspring artistic directors Claire…
The sound was beautifully blended in the ensemble moments and carefully balanced in the solo passages. The Australian Haydn Ensemble a cornerstone of keeping alive the incomparable music and the elements of the Classical era.
Testament, Acacia Quartet 19 May,2019 The Independent Theatre, North Sydney Written by Ria Andriani Acacia Quartet’s programme Testament, was a rich offering, from the ice-breaker Mozart, to Alice Chance, reflective Mansurian and luscious Debussy. Mozart’s String Quartet in C major, K465, nicknamed ‘Dissonance’ offered a good introduction to the group’s character and musicality. Though considered dissonant…
Descending the spiral staircases into the darkened subterranean caverns of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), was like entering the recesses of the subconscious. The museum was about to host the inaugural coming together of a collision of sensory experiences in the form of Synaesthesia: Music of Colour and Mind, a festival that…
It was a novel idea for a sleepover – a live, all-night performance by Max Richter, of his album Sleep. For eight hours, patrons immersed themselves in Richter’s inimitable music. Performing with him in the spaces of the Sydney Opera House were his colleagues who also featured on the album – New York’s American Contemporary…