The Sydney International Piano Competition launches online this evening. Reigning champion and 2016 winner Andrey Gugnin will perform a spectacular Opening Night Gala concert with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, recorded in front of a live audience at the Moscow Conservatory, exclusively for The Sydney.
Selby & Friends’ winter tour Mavericks features Kathryn Selby AM and her preeminent guest artists, violinist and SSO Concertmaster Andrew Haveron, and ACO Principal cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, playing music by three composers whose activist rigour and individualism made them mavericks who not only carved out a significant place in music history but paved the way for many who would follow.
Elysian Fields, Australia’s only electric viola da gamba ensemble, bring their genre-defying blend of classical, jazz, and world music to Melbourne Digital Concert Hall in a profoundly moving exploration of ensemble leader Jenny Eriksson’s Swedish heritage. Featuring exquisite arrangements of Swedish folk songs, music by leading Scandinavian composers and materials by band members inspired by the Far North.
Leading recorder player, Genevieve Lacey and sensational Australian harpist, Marshall McGuire, are a unique combination of recorder and harp in Bower.
The string players of The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) led by Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams presents a concert which features a unique selection of works including a rarely seen trio of viola soloists, a world premiere titled Cellar Door, plus Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings.
Celebrate Bastille Day with French Favourites from award-winning violinist, Emily Sun, and pianist, Andrea Lam. Drawn from Emily’s highly acclaimed debut album, Nocturnes (ABC Classics), enjoy La Vie en Rose, Autumn Leaves, Clair de Lune, and one of the best-loved sonatas ever written for violin and piano, by César Franck.
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO) returns in August with it concert tour EMERGE, is a celebration of development and renewal, featuring some of Australia’s brightest young talents.
Directed by Christopher Bowen, OAM, the Sydney University Graduate Choir presents two great works: Fauré's Requiem and Schubert's Stabat Mater, with soloists Elke Hook, Richard Butler and Andrew O'Connor.
Thoroughbass, comprising soprano Danielle Grant, violinist Tara Hashambhoy and Diana Weston at the piano presents Home and Hearth, a concert of intimate music for voice, piano and violin by Schubert, Haydn, Pleyel and traditional Scots tunes.
The Metropolitan Orchestra performs Raiders of the Lost Ark in Concert on the 40th Anniversary of this ultimate adventure classic first gracing the silver screen.
Ensemble Offspring launches Offspring for All, a digital concert platform with artistic director and percussionist Claire Edwardes centre stage for the concert premiere of Rhythms of Change.
Ensemble Offspring’s core members Claire Edwardes (marimba) and Jason Noble (bass clarinet) team up with acclaimed harpist Emily Granger in Blue Silence, an online concert to unearth masterpieces from the depths of living musical imagination.