Omega Ensemble Explores Time, Mortality and Eternity

Omega Ensemble Explores Time, Mortality and Eternity

Omega Ensemble presents Three Quartets of Time, Mortality and Eternity, featuring the music of Schubert, Barber and Messiaen. Death and music have always made an unlikely couple, but perhaps no two composers have directly reflected on their own mortality more than Schubert and Messiaen. Written and premiered in the dead of winter whilst Messiaen was a…

Concert Review: A Brahms Affair/ Omega Ensemble

Concert Review: A Brahms Affair/ Omega Ensemble

A Brahms Affair Omega Ensemble City Recital Hall 7 September, 2016 At the vanguard of performing live clarinet repertoire in Sydney, Omega Ensemble presented A Brahms Affair, featuring the swoon-worthy later works of Schumann, Borodin and Brahms in configurations of 2, 4 and then 5 players. Omega Ensemble co-directors clarinettist David Rowden and pianist Maria…

Omega Ensemble – A Brahms Affair

Omega Ensemble – A Brahms Affair

The Omega Ensemble presents A Brahms Affair – a celebration of chemistry, romance and love that will engage your senses and leave you breathless. Featuring the music of Brahms, Borodin and Schumann, co-artistic directors of Omega Ensemble, David Rowden and Maria Raspopova are joined by guest artist Alexandra Osborne, violin who appears by courtesy of the National Symphony…