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…

Omega Ensemble: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Omega Ensemble: Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Omega Ensemble performs one of the masterpieces of the Late Romantic era, Elgar’s Cello Concerto, with acclaimed Dutch cellist Teije Hylkema, Principal Cellist of the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Omega Ensemble is  the City Recital Hall Ensemble in Residence and true to its style, its programme features diverse classical and contemporary works. David Rowden, Artistic…

Cello Heaven With The Metropolitan Orchestra

Cello Heaven With The Metropolitan Orchestra

The Eight Cellists of The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) will be delivering an afternoon of superb music with favourite works by Apocalyptica, Bach, Byrd, Piazzolla, Mancini, Purcell, Pärt and others. The concert also features the Australian premiere of Ladainha by Brazilian Composer Gustavo Tavares and a world premiere of a work written especially for the TMO cellists…