Continuing its Homecasts this week, the Australian Chamber Orchestra presents violinist Maja Savnik in ‘The Balkan Express’ a quirky and stirring tribute to her Balkan heritage, filmed from her Sydney home. “I created this video as an homage to my former homeland of Yugoslavia and as a way of sharing our culture, but also with the intention of making people smile and remember that we’re all in this together” she says.
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton AM leads the Willoughby Orchestra and Choir in a celebration of masterpieces in Last Night of the Proms, performing favourite like the Dambusters March, Jerusalem and Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March. The concert will feature guest soloists from Pacific Opera, as well as a special performance by outstanding…
UNSW’s choir, the Collegium Musicum Choir performs Handel’s Messiah in its inaugural concert of the 2016 season, conducted by choral director Sonia Maddock and accompanied by an orchestra which includes core members of the Australia Ensemble @UNSW. The 80-voice ensemble performs this pillar of the choral repertoire with its breathtaking arias and choruses, including the immortal Hallelujah chorus and…
The Metropolitan Orchestra invites you to grab your family and friends, a picnic basket and rug for this free outdoor concert presented by the Inner West Council. Performed in the gorgeous sandstone setting of Sydney College of the Arts in Callan Park, join members of The Metropolitan Orchestra and Leichhardt Espresso Chorus as they perform…
Join four of Sydney’s finest young singers in a recital of some of the greatest song cycles in the vocal repertoire. Accompanied by pianist Mikey Curtain, tenors Kaine Hayward and Joel Scott, with baritones Jared Lillehagen and Andrew Williams, will perform music by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Mahler. There will be a complimentary glass…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra under Artistic Director and Lead Violin, Richard Tognetti, presents Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 in D minor, opus 125 in the climax of its cycle of Beethoven symphonies. It is, of course, the ‘Choral’ Symphony and it is the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge directed by Graham Ross, that will perform with the orchestra…
The magic of a candlelit century old church is the setting for The Idea of North’s next Sydney concert in April. In ‘Ballads by Candlelight’ the a capella quartet will present, in their inimatable style, the songs of The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Sting and Joni Mitchell. The concert marks the return of alto Naomi Crellin to…