At 9 25 pm Sunday 20th October, ABC TV1 will screen Autopsy On a Dream – The Making of the Sydney Opera House.
‘For the first time on Australian TV, the controversial 1968 BBC film Autopsy On A Dream, thought lost for 45 years. Includes a new prologue The Dream Of Perfection to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Opera House.”
Stolen “….old elder young honesty turned ashen……” Anne Stephenson, ‘Willow Song’ Bursting with musical riches, Stolen explores ideas of displacement, dislocation and identity through the integration of music and visual image. The performances present three world premieres and bring together two of Australia’s most innovative new music ensembles for the first time; Halcyon, Sydney’s acclaimed vocal chamber music…
Gondwana Choirs proudly presents the 2020 Festival of Summer Voices, featuring Australia’s best young choral singers in concert across four nights at UNSW. More than 300 young singers from around Australia will perform four public concerts with repertoire form around the world, from 16-19 January, directed by some of Australia’s finest choral conductors. Led by…
The Balmain Sinfonia concludes its 2014 season with a concert of classics that features a reunion with violinist Susie Park. In 1995, Sydney teenager Susie Park won the Balmain Sinfonia Concerto Competition and the Richard Goldner Award, with her performance of Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2. She went on to play that concerto with the…
The Sydney Consort presents its annual organ recital featuring New Zealand born organ virtuoso, Thomas Gaynor. Winner of the Saint Albans International Organ Competition, the Third International Bach-Liszt Organ Competition in Erfurt/Weimar, Germany, the Sydney International Organ Competition and the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing competition, as well as being a prizewinner in the Miami and…
The crystal voiced soprano, Julia Lezhneva is to perform in Sydney with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in Baroque Brilliance – a programme of music that is beautifully suited to the voice of the young Russian singer. Just 26 years old, Lezhneva had completed an honours degree in voice and piano by the age of 15, and…
For the final concert in the Selby & Friends 2013 series, pianist Kathryn Selby indeed meets up with old friends violinist Sophie Rowell and cellist Julian Smiles to perform two cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire, the Piano Trio in E flat major opus 1 no 1 by Beethoven and the Piano Trio No.4 in E minor, Op.90…