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Threading The Light Launch And Premiere

Pitt Street Uniting Church 264 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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.

An Evening with Stephanie McCallum

Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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.

Advent At Christ Church St Laurence

Christ Church St. Laurence 812 Railway Square, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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’s Médée

City Recital Hall 2 Angel Place, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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 Performs Dowland

Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Wharf 4/5, 15 Hickson Rd, Dawes Point, Australia

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 Autobiochemistry

Summer Hill Church 2, Henson Street, Summer Hill, NSW, Australia

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).

Castalia Vocal Consort ‘Her Eyes’

aMBUSH Gallery 4 James Street, Waterloo, NSW, Australia

Castalia Vocal Consort presents Her Eyes, a musical and artistic exploration of Mary as a woman outside of her spiritual status. It features music by Alice Chance, Brooke Shelley, Herbert Howells, Elliot Gyger and Francis Poulenc, paired with the artworks of artists including Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Picasso.

Australian Haydn Ensemble Features CPE Bach

City Recital Hall 2 Angel Place, Sydney, NSW, Australia

The Australian Haydn Ensemble presents C.P.E. Bach: Universe of Harmony featuring Guest Director and harpsichord soloist Chad Kelly and cello soloist Daniel Yeadon.  There are concerts in Bathurst (Tuesday December 13) and Canberra (Wednesday December 14) as well as in Sydney. The Sydney performance will be streamed live on Australian Digital Concert Hall.

River City Voices ‘Slam Messiah’

Riverside Theatre, Parramatta

River City Voices in partnership with WestWords presents Handel’s Messiah, as you’ve never seen or heard it before, creating a groundbreaking Australian premiere when a choral Christmas tradition meets a beloved Western Sydney art form. 

Omega Ensemble Highlights French Horn

Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Circular Quay East, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Nicolas Fleury, Principal Horn of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, joins Omega Ensemble for a program containing some of the most glorious music written for French horn including the premiere of apiece commissioned by Omega Ensemble.

Choir of St James’ Messiah

St James' Church King Sreet, Sydney, NSW, Australia

The Choir of St James' with Bach Band at St James' performs Handel’s immortal oratorio Messiah, in a unique and intimate chamber setting.