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 Balmain Sinfonia celebrates its 100th performance during the 2017 season with a concert of Borodin, Mozart and Dvorak, showcasing Australian violinist Tinel Dragoi with the orchestra’s recently honoured artistic director Gary Stavrou OAM again holding the baton. And there will be a glass of complimentary ‘bubbly’ for all in celebration of the Sinfonia reaching…
Watching soloists take their curtain calls absorbing the appreciation of the audience, the rise to solo status seems so easy; a natural progression. The scenario belies their years of training and practice, the personal and financial sacrifices, and the unerring focus on the longer term goals. Tenor Edmond Choo has his goals firmly in sight….
The semi-finals of the IFAC Australian Singing Competition are on tonight with 10 brilliant young singers from around the region, competing for five spots in the finals. Accompanied by David Harper, the finalists, New Zealanders Bianca Andrew, mezzo soprano, 23 and Edward Laurenson, 24, baritone; Victorians Hannah Dahlenburg, 25, soprano, Brenton Spiteri, tenor, 24…
The Musician Project Orchestra welcomes back conductor Fabian Russell in a programme that features cellist Jack Bailey and the music of Richard Strauss and Prokofiev. Fabian Russell previously conducted the young ensemble in their 2015 performance of Mahler’s 9th Symphony. Young Australian cellist Jack Bailey returns from studies in the UK to perform with the ensemble.<style>…
A new production of Bizet’s bewitching opera Carmen, captured live during the European summer from the stage amidst the impressive ruins at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, screens in Sydney this weekend. Created by the exciting Latin director Valentina Carrasco of La Fura dels Baus, sets Bizet’s tale of the passionate yet destructive love…
The Australia Piano Quartet (AQ) presents its final concert for the year performing music by Mozart and Saint-Saëns along with the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Sydney composer Alex Pozniak. Resident at the University of Technology, Sydney, the ensemble comprises pianist Evgeny Ukhanov, cellist and co-Artistic Director, Thomas Rann, violinist Rebecca Chan…