Add some spark to your day with the Australia Ensemble’s free lunchtime concert series.
Join one of Sydney’s finest chamber ensembles, resident at the University of New South Wales, for a program of sumptuous music from the old to the new, including Haydn’s Flute Quartet in D, Sculthorpe’s String quartet no. 8 and Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite (arr. Ian Munro)
Sarah Grunstein Sarah Grunstein, the internationally acclaimed Australian pianist, returns to the Sydney Opera House to perform two concerts in 2018. The first concert will be a programme of music by three of the composers she most loves to play: Beethoven’s Sonata in E major, Op. 109, Brahms’ Fantasien, Op. 116, and Schumann’s Fantasie in C major, Op. 17. In…
The Australia Ensemble@UNSW returns to the stage in March with the inaugural concert of its 2016 season. The programme entitled Transfigured Night takes its name from Arnold Schoenberg’s masterful string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), an early work reflecting this composer’s interest and mastery of late Romantic musical ideas. Inspired by a poem of the expressionist poet, Richard…
Californian choral music comes to Sydney when Bakersfield College Chamber Choir from California and Sydney University Madrigal Society perform together in an Evening of Sublime Song. Touring Australia for the first time, Bakersfield College Chamber Choir directed by Dr Jennifer Garrett, will make its Sydney debut in this historic church, sharing the stage with their contemporaries from…
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Noël! Noël! concerts have become an annual fixture during the Christmas season. This year the orchestra, under the direction of Paul Dyer AO, is again joined by the Brandenburg Choir and introduces New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa to embrace the community spirit and enjoy Brandenburg traditions in celebrating the spirituality, the splendour…
The Orava Quartet is a young ensemble fast making its mark in chamber music performance across USA, Asia and Australasia. Later this week they perform in Sydney under the auspices of the Trinity Grammar School’s Society of the Arts as part of its 2015 Concert Series. Founded in 2007, the ensemble comprises brothers Daniel Kowalik (violin)…
The long weekend has a treasure in store with the screening on SBS TV of Sir David McVicar’s production of Richard Strauss’ sinister masterpiece Salome. Based on the play by Oscar Wilde,which in turn is derived from the Biblical tale, the one-act opera has some famous moments in opera, amongst them the Dance of…