Musica Viva Festival 2017

Musica Viva Festival 2017

The 2017 Musica Viva Festival brings a four-day celebration of chamber music, family events, food and wine, where the world’s great performers rub shoulders with rising stars, composers and fans. Returning to the Sydney Conservatorium from 20-23 April, 2017, it offers an impressive guest list topped by legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman, pianist Lambert Orkis and Australian…

North Sydney Symphony presents rare double bass concerto

North Sydney Symphony presents rare double bass concerto

    The North Sydney Symphony Orchestra continues its 2012 series with a programme of orchestral music grounded in northern Europe. The concert opens with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnole,  Koussevitsky’s Concerto for Double Bass and the Symphony No.2 by Jean Sibelius. Steven Hillinger will conduct the orchestra which is joined by Double Bassist Kees Boersma who comments: “My last…