‘Bears with guns’ this weekend – not as dangerous as it sounds

“An opportunity to shake hands across the centuries”. So says conductor Jonathan Grieves-Smith, who will be travelling from Melbourne to conduct the Sydney Chamber Choir in their concert “Bach to the Future” this weekend. Anchored by three of JS Bach’s immortal motets (“Komm, Jesu, komm”, “ Singet dem herrn ein neues lied” , and “Lobet…
International stars and Australian jazz heavyweights descend upon Sydney as The University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music hosts its third annual International Jazz Festival. Tickets are now on sale. Formed in 2017 with Australian jazz at its core, Artistic Director and Head of the Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Studies Program, David Theak, a tireless advocate for…
The Sydney University Graduate Choir is delighted to announce the three finalists in the Joan Carden Award for 2017. They are: mezzo-soprano Barbara Jin, tenor Joshua Oxley and baritone Haotian Qi. The three finalists will perform with full orchestra at the choir’s upcoming performance of Mozart’s Requiem with the winner announced at the end of…
Omega Ensemble’s principal wind musicians are back with a new instalment of musical favourites, full of colour and bravura in Summer Winds II. From the simple style of Damase to the surprising sounds of Berio, this performance also includes the recently re-discovered and restored Wind Quintet by Gustav Holst, as well as the world premiere…
Blush Opera and Sirius Chamber Ensemble join forces to perform Fancy Me Dead, a macabre comedy of operatic proportions by Paul Smith. Blush Opera premiered the newly written cabaret opera, Fancy Me Dead, at the Festival of Voices in Hobart. After a sell-out performance at the Hayes Theatre as part of the New Music Network Mini…
Stephen Taberner’s Big Singlet is a pop-up choir – ” it’s a thing, it’s a thing, it’s a sing.” Stephen Taberner has arrived back from overseas places with some secret new ditties and a fresh-faced desire to transform roomloads of galoots into singing angels. it’s worked before, so why not now? big singlets are one-off or…