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When the Choir of St James’ gives its debut performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall this week, it will be celebrating another first – the premiere of the newly formed BachBand@St James’. The choir and band with soloists directed by St James’ Head of Music, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, will perform J S Bach’s St John Passion,…
After hotly contested preliminary rounds involving almost 30 a cappella (unaccompanied) choirs, ten choirs entered the finals of the Short + Sweet Voices Festival held at the Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, last weekend. Performing in every sort of musical genre and style and in ensembles of all sizes, from quartets to more than 50 singers, the…
When: Thursday December 31, 2020 At: 11.15 pm Where: Online Cellist Rachel Scott will entertain on New Year’s Eve, with a programme of solo Bach in her popular series Bach in the Dark. She will play Bach’s 3rd cello suite – full of joy, hope and energy as we turn to face a new year….
Alison Morgan is a freelance soprano based in Sydney who along with mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong co-directs acclaimed ensemble Halcyon, Australia’s leading exponent of new chamber music for voice. ‘First Stones’ is Halcyon’s inaugural chamber song project for emerging composers. This is her account of the early stages of this project. The First Stones 2011 Emerging Composers…
The Sydney Eisteddfod’s Stage At Home series continues throughout June and July with new videos being released each week. Entries are still welcome from all performers at home in dance, drama, music and song. Stage at Home was created for the created for the Sydney Eisteddfod community so that the talent of the 2020 Festival…
The death was announced earlier this evening of Peter Sculthorpe AO, OBE, arguably the best known Australian composer of the day. He was aged 85. His output included works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments and choral works. He is possibly best known for his integration of Aboriginal and South East Asian idioms into his writing creating a distinct…