The Balmain Sinfonia conducted by Gary Stavrou opens its 2015 season with an all-French program of music by Bizet, Berlioz and Franck which features Australian mezzo-soprano Ellen Malone. Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 showcases his remarkable gifts for melody, orchestration, rhythmic energy and his ability to capture regional flavors. The incidental music for a 1872 production of…
The Balmain Sinfonia concludes its 2014 season with a concert of classics that features a reunion with violinist Susie Park. In 1995, Sydney teenager Susie Park won the Balmain Sinfonia Concerto Competition and the Richard Goldner Award, with her performance of Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2. She went on to play that concerto with the…
The Balmain Sinfonia celebrates the start of Spring with a brilliant program featuring popular classics and a ‘buffet’ of music from the times of Lachlan Macquarie. Featured items are Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto, with soloist Clemens Leske and Saint-Saens’ beautiful Organ Symphony (No.3). The other ‘surprise treats’ – music from the times of Lachlan Macquarie –…