Salut! Baroque presents Musical Moonlighters illustrating the struggle for composers between creativity and livelihood, a necessary balance for Baroque composers, not dissimilar to artists today.
Phoenix Collective with Dan Walker, presents The Juliet Letters, a song sequence for string quartet which marries chamber music with Beatles-esque art-pop, inspired by the true story of a Verona professor who responded to letters addressed to Juliet, of Romeo and Juliet fame.
Flautist Jane Rutter and pianist Simon Tedeschi appear in concert, live and online, playing music by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Schumann and Gershwin.
The Pitt Street Lunchtime Organ Festival runs on selected Fridays from May to September, 2022. Artistic Directors Kurt Ison and Stacey Xiaoyu Yang have gathered some of some of Sydney's finest organists to perform on the historic Hill and Son pipe organ in the sanctuary of Pitt St Uniting Church, metres from Town Hall station.
Pinchgut Opera fans have another terrific musical event to look forward to with the Australian debut of Antonio Cesti's Orontea, one of the most popular operas of the 17th century....
HERE is a conceptual concert of music, art, and poetry, presented by a new interdisciplinary collective of Inner West-based artists. Formed in response to the lost bond of intimacy between neighbours during lockdown, HERE explores the theme of locality and transition through a collaboration between words, music, and visuals.
Musica Viva Australia's second Morning Masters concert of 2022 brings together two powerhouse performers: tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Sonya Lifschitz.
Ensemble Offspring presents Another Future in which each work explores themes pertinent to our lives today. From climate change and natural disasters to global pandemics and human connection, four new works by bold female compositional voices offer moving sonic insights into life on planet earth in 2022.
The Sydney Con Jazz Festival 2022 features trail-blazing jazz artists from the US and Europe alongside the crème of Australian jazz. Multi-show discounts available
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra takes you to The Italian Baroque, featuring some of the greatest compositions of that grand era with concerts in Sydney and Wyong.
Phoenix Collective Quartet (PCQ) presents ‘Enlightenment’, performing in Sydney, Canberra and the Central Coast, exploring ideas of liberty, progress and individualism and performing the world premiere of Sally Whitwell's piece 'Toward.'
Bach Akademie Australia's The Weapons of Rhetoric concerts in June feature not only Bach’s celebrated Double Violin Concerto, but also writer-actor Jonathan Biggins and urbane rhetorician Jonathan Horton QC, one of Australia’s outstanding legal brains, as guest presenter-performers. The duo will demonstrate the art of rhetoric and the relationship between speech and music in theatrical debate interwoven throughout the program.