Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring celebrates its 25th anniversary with Songbirds, a new album of contemporary Australian music that celebrates birds – nature’s own composers. Released on the ABC Classic label, Ensemble Offspring’s new album, Songbirds, is a beguiling collection of chamber works for flute, clarinet and vibraphone inspired by butcherbirds, blackbirds, lorikeets and leafcutter ants, frogs…
Renowned Australian pianist Bernadette Harvey launches the Sonata Project performing new works for the piano that she has commissioned by gifted Australian composers – three of them women. Her performance reaches back to the sensuous Romantic age to forge a whole new way for contemporary audiences to enjoy classical piano music. For the inaugural concert,…
Musica Viva presents the brilliant young duo, violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Andrew Tyson who are making their first tour of Australia. Their program includes works by Mozart, Janáček and Saint-Saëns, as well as a world premiere by Australian composer Jane Stanley that was commissioned by Musica Viva’s Hildegard Project. Their tour program calls…