The Australia Ensemble@ UNSW presents a lunchtime concert featuring Connesson’s Disco toccata for clarinet and cello, as well as Ian Munro’s Clarinet Quintet , Bartok’s Suite paysanne hongroise and Brahms’ Hungarian Dance Suite.
Admission is free. Open to the public.
Learn how to play the awe-inspiring taiko, by joining members of TaikOz for a 90 minute Taiko is for Everyone drumming workshop in Sydney. Enjoy this unique experience that will allow you to feel the awesome power of the taiko, the vitality of the rhythm and the fun of making music in a group. Taiko…
ARTSONG NSW presents the 14 song settings by Franz Peter Schubert which became known posthumously as the song cycle ‘Schwanengesang’ (Swan Song) D 957. Composed between 1827– 8 the texts were written by the poets are Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Rellstab and Johann Gabriel Seidl . Acclaimed lieder tenor Robert MacFarlane and pianist John Martin will perform this selection…
For their 2014 Lenten concerts, the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence is joined by the St Laurence Baroque Orchestra conducted by Dr Neil McEwan to present J. S. Bach’s mighty St John Passion, BWV 245. Although Bach never wrote an opera, both his surviving Passions owe a great deal to the operatic tradition. The St John Passion is…
TaikOz is thrilled to announce an exciting collaboration with award-winning media arts producer and sound artist, Tokyo Love-In: Origin of O. Incorporating video, photography and graphics with computer-generated music and live performance, Origin of O fuses the heart thumping, primal beats of the taiko with digitally created soundscapes. Explore the organic beauty of the taiko, as demonstrated by the TaikOz…
The Omega Ensemble presents an unusual and intimate performance of the music of Mahler in the July concert of their Virtuoso Series with guest artist soprano Jane Sheldon. Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 is one of the closest to chamber music of all of Mahler’s immense output. This unique arrangement by Klaus Simon from 2007 retains Mahler’s…
Ensemble Offspring is turning 20 this year and is celebrating with a double concert they have called Future Retro. Ensemble Offspring started in 1995 as a handful of musicians from the Sydney Conservatorium. Two decades and hundreds of premieres later, Sydney’s foremost new music ensemble is still pushing boundaries and breaking rules much to the delights…