In our second workshop for the year Dene Olding, core member of the Australia Ensemble @UNSW and co-concertmaster of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, will work with two promising UNSW students.
This masterclass is free and open to the public, offering a rare opportunity to get inside the minds of musicians and learn about how they practice their art.
Led by conductor and music educator James Pensini, the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra welcomes spring, performing a special concert for families at the Australian Botanic Garden in Mount Annan. This family friendly performance has been designed to be an interactive, informative and fun way for young children to be introduced to orchestral music. Children are…
One of the greatest voices of this generation the legendary Roberto Alagna is to perform in Australia this July. A sought after tenor and charismatic artist, his performing world includes the opera theatre, the concert stage, the recital hall and the recording studio. This will be Roberto Alagna’s debut tour of Australia, following a three-month season starring with…
The celebrated American pianist, and conductor Stephen Drury is to visit Sydney this November. He will give two public recitals in the magnificent rock-walled New Hall of Sydney Grammar School. Stephen Drury (b 1955) was student of Claudio Arrau and is now on the piano faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He performs repertoire…
Soprano Ayse Göknur Shanal and pianist Patrick Keith will be presenting Cannakale-Gallipoli Songs, a program of 4 newly commissioned song cycles which were written for the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, 1915. The songs are written by Ross Fiddes, Wayne Dixon, Diana Blom, and Erberk Eryilmaz, who first took soldiers’ personal accounts of these times, which…
Australia’s premier vocal ensemble, Song Company presents the internationally renowned lutenist, Nigel North, as guest artistic director for the second concert in their 2013 season entitled Dowland’s Lute. Celebrating the 450th anniversary of the birth of English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist John Dowland, the Song Company has invited celebrated lutenist Nigel North for an all-out…
The Sydney Chamber Choir performs the music of Monteverdi, Gesualdo and Purcell in their October concert which includes a complete concert performance of Purcell’s masterpiece, the opera Dido and Aeneas. Monteverdi takes us to the lonely shores of Naxos, where Ariadne, having sacrificed everything to save her beloved Theseus from the claws of the Minotaur, watches…