In our second workshop for the year Dene Olding, core member of the Australia Ensemble @UNSW and co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, will work with two promising UNSW students.
This masterclass is free and open to the public, offering a rare opportunity to get inside the minds of musicians and learn about how they practice their art.
Pianist Alexander Boyd, another talent from Australia’s illustrious Boyd dynasty, returns to the Art Gallery Society’s Resonate series to showcase his virtuosity. The programme begins with Mozart’s Sonata in A minor, followed by a Chopin Scherzo and two Nocturnes. It concludes with Isaac Albéniz’s Iberia Book I & II, a masterpiece of musical portraiture that brilliantly evokes…
C S Lewis’ fantastic children’s classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe receives its Sydney stage premiere in Irita Kutchmy’s beautiful and heart-warming musical. Presented by Chatswood Musical Society, the huge cast bursting with talent, some as young as 8, performs the thrilling tale which generations have enjoyed as a book and more recently as an…
The Sydney Youth Orchestras kick off an exciting year of music-making with their friend and mentor pianist Simon Tedeschi as guest soloist. In Intensity of Emotion Simon Tedeschi will perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1, Op.15 followed by the orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5, Op.64. Simon Tedeschi says “Brahms’ first piano concerto is a tumultuous battle between piano and orchestra,…
“Meet Fiona Campbell” says the media release. “Venus in voice and form” (Opera-Opera). This mezzo–soprano could have been created by Botticelli – cascading tresses and a goddess gown. Over the page, a complete contrast as she stands arms akimbo. The manicured nails and chandelier earrings prevail, yet the hair is tied back, and Campbell wears a mannish shirt and…
The Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra The Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra (ARCO) concludes its 2018 season in August with Poetical Melodies: Elegaic & Daring, in which the string section of the ensemble takes centre stage in this program, to explore the Poetical Melodies of the Romantic period on gut strings, delving into works by Mendelssohn, Grieg,…
The St John Passion BWV 245 was Johann Sebastian Bach’s first and is his most oft performed passion. It’s a repository of the best of Baroque writing, replete with choruses and da capo arias, recitatives, tutti and small group (concertino) sections. It contains writing and orchestration that makes Baroque music able to fulfil the twin…