The Acacia Quartet comprising violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase, are joined by soprano Ayse Goknur Shanal in an exciting programme featuring contemporary Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s How Slow The Wind and Tenebrae, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String Quartet K421 and a world premier by Australian composer Ross Fiddes, The Man in the Other Room for Soprano & String Quartet.
The future of percussion has landed! Bree van Reyk, Evan Mannell and Timothy Constable are space ninjas on a mission – to change the face of music, one BPM at a time. Check My Machine is electro pop, gnarly beat programming and LEDs. Vintage hip hop boxes sit alongside solid state drives, analogue drums with…
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,…
Sydney Chamber Choir under its new Music Director Sam Allchurch with the Muffat Collective presents A Royal Affair, featuring masterworks from two Masters of the Queen’s Music with two of Handel’s grandest royal works. The first non-Briton to hold the royal appointment, Australian composer Malcolm Williamson brought a larrikin spirit to the role. ‘Most of my…
Over four jam-packed days from today (Thursday 9 April) to Sunday 12 April, Musica Viva presents its biennial Musica Viva Festival at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Festival goers of all tastes will be entertained by some of the world’s most talented chamber musicians in seven concerts, along with a number of interactive music-themed festival…
Acacia Quartet, presents La Malinconia, an exquisite afternoon concert which takes its title from the fourth movement of Beethoven’s String Quartet No.6, La Malinconia (‘melancholy’). They will perform three outstanding works in the elegant North Sydney concert venue with its famously magnificent acoustic. Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18, No.6 is the last…
Musica Viva and St James’ Church offer you the unique opportunity to attend a Masterclass with the highly acclaimed Robert Hollingworth, Director of the superb British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini. Observe Robert Hollingworth working with The Choir of St James’ and Sydney Antiphony, learning how music is made in an ‘open lesson’ format. Tickets: At the door Students: $5 Standard Price: $20 Student…