Sydney Camerata’s City Recital Hall Debut

Sydney Camerata’s City Recital Hall Debut

“We’re very excited to be making our debut at the City Recital Hall in a collaboration with one of Australia’s best known pianists, Kathryn Selby”. So says Artistic Director, cellist and founder of  Sydney Camerata, Mathisha Panagoda. Not bad for a chamber ensemble formed just three years ago.  Directed from the violin by Liz Gormely, they join forces with…

Premiere:”Morgan’s Run Musical” – history in music

Premiere:”Morgan’s Run Musical” – history in music

May 1787 , and the First Fleet is ready to sail from England.  Richard Morgan’s safe and respectable middle-class existence is shattered. He may as well be crossing into Hades as he endures the ocean journey to the colony of New South Wales. Colleen McCullough’s  tale of Richard Morgan in her novel “Morgan’s Run“, has been transformed…

Good Friday fare: Pergolesi and Stainer

Two powerful images from the events of Good Friday at Calvary, are brought together in music on Good Friday, 22nd April when  Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is performed alongside Stainers’  Crucifixion,  at St Stephen’s Church, in Macquarie Street, Sydney.  Pergolesi’s work paints the grieving mother whilst Stainer’s depicts the object of her grief –  the crucifixion death of her Son. In fact,…