Taryn Fiebig — A Celebration will be a tribute to the much loved soprano who died of of ovarian cancer in March 2021. Join a star-studded cast of opera and music theatre talent, accompanied by a full orchestra, in this joyful tribute to a much-loved and versatile performer. All proceeds to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
Bach Akademie Australia closes its 2022 season in November with two concerts in Sydney and Chatswood, dedicated to thanksgiving, traversing a path from Italy to Germany and featuring music by Monteverdi, Marini, Merula, Gabrieli, Schütz and of course, the inspiration for this ensemble, J S Bach.
Cellist Rachel Scott, artistic director of Bach in the Dark concert series is joined by classical guitar duo Raffaele and Janet Agostino in a program that has a little 'something for everyone' in it. Concerts in Sydney and Katoomba.
Sydney Chamber Choir with the Muffat Collective directed by Sam Allchurch presents Light & Shade, with music by J S Bach, Heinrich Schütz, John Rutter and Brooke Shelley including the world premiere of her new piece commissioned by the choir.
Salut! Baroque presents ‘Medicinal Music’ in Sydney and in Canberra with beautiful and healing baroque music by Bach, Albinoni, Zelenka, Marais and Charpentier.
Composer Felicity Wilcox's Threading the Light will be launched and premiered in two live performances in Sydney this weekend featuring the voices of Jenny Duck Chong, Alison Morgan, and Mark Donnelly, and contrasting with the timbre and tuning of string and percussion ensemble conducted by Sada Muramatsu, and featuring soloists Anna McMichael, Luke Spicer and Anthea Cottee. The CD is already available through Move Records or to download or stream from your favourite digital music provider.
Concert pianist premieres a new set of Preludes by the award winning Australian composer Aristea Mellos, and revisits her long-held passion for the works of the reclusive French Romantic composer Charles-Valentin Alkan.
Christ Church St Laurence will be celebrating Advent with a 'full' version of their annual Service of Lessons and Carols, on the evening of Advent Sunday, 27 November. The music even includes a new (well, written in 2020) piece by one of my fellow choristers - as she is a chorister, she knows how to...
Pinchgut Opera, Australia’s only specialist Baroque opera company, concludes the 2022 season with the Australian premiere of Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, one of the greatest operas of the French Baroque era.
The Marais Project presents a selection of the finest English songs in 'A Pilgrime’s Solace: Dowland’s last songs & Danyel’s funeral tears.' Featuring tenor Koen van Stade with lutenist Tommie Andersson and Jenny Eriksson playing the viola da gamba, the concerts celebrate the extraordinary composer and lutenist, John Dowland (1563–1626) whose popularity endures nearly 400 years after he died.
Halcyon presents the world premiere of Elliot Gyger's Autobiochemistry (2019), a new 13-movement work scored for voice and cello, each one named for a different chemical element. This piece which won the prestigious 2022 Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize. Also on the program is the Australian premiere of British composer Nicola Lefanu's The Tongue and the Heart (2008), inspired by newly written love lyrics by John Fuller, and Swedish composer Madeleine Isaksson’s Blad över blad (2000/2019).
The legendary pianist Roger Woodward AC will return to Sydney for one performance celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by its artistic director Paul Terracini.