Sirius Chamber Ensemble’s first project for the year is a concert of music for wind quintet, featuring classics from the repertoire alongside recent music by Australian composers. Performances will be held in Sydney, Picton and Newcastle. Carl Nielsen’s Quintet Op.43 is perhaps the best-known and loved work for wind quintet. Dedicated to the members of…
For their October concert, the Sirius Chamber Ensemble is joined by the engaging and talented soprano Taryn Srhoj who returns to perform in Postcards from Vienna, featuring music premiered in Vienna between 1777 and 1913. The earliest piece, Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D major (No.1) will be followed by the more recent, Seven Early Songs…
Clarinetist Ian Sykes is pianist Chris Cartner’s guest instrumentalist in a programme of seductive and stirring music from France. The centrepiece in this enticing bill is Poulenc’s haunting and brilliant Sonata for Clarinet and Piano.The programme also features the luscious, late-romantic Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Saint-Saëns and the playful Duo Concertante by Darius Milhaud,…