The Sirius Chamber Ensemble comprising Claire Howard Race (piano), Melissa Coleman (flute), Clare Kahn (cello) and Martyn Hentschel (violin) will present a free lunch time concert featuring the Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, opus 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich and the Flute Sonata in D, opus 97 by Sergei Prokofiev.
The third and final stage of The Metropolitan Orchestra’s Composer Development Programme will give four composers the rare opportunity to workshop their piece with a full orchestra conducted by Artistic Director of TMO, Sarah-Grace Williams. The four finalists will be selected from a group of eight composers who will have participated in the first two stages of…
The Marais Project presents A Bass Affair – music for bass viol and bass violin. For this concert, founding artistic director Jennifer Eriksson welcomes to the ensemble, Tim Blomfield, one of Australia’s finest bass violinists and co-founder of Sydney’s long standing and highly respected early music ensemble, Salut! Baroque. Early music fans may be aware that…
The Australian Chamber Choir directed by Douglas Lawrence OAM presents Keys to Heaven featuring music by composers of the Sistine Chapel – Allegri, Josquin and Palestrina Following their recent European success, the 18 -voice Australian Chamber Choir returns to Australia for this your of Sydney, Melbourne and its surrounding regions, inspired by Pietro Perugino’s Sistine…
Hot on the heels of her involvement with the Brooklyn Academy of Music performances of the Philip Glass Etudes, double ARIA Award winning pianist, composer, conductor and educator Sally Whitwell is performing the music of Glass at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art in association with their exhibition of works by American painter and photographer Chuck Close. …
The Sirius Chamber Ensemble presents its last performance of its 2014 series which will feature the Australian premiere of the recently published original version of Aaron Copland’s Quiet City and a new work written especially for Sirius by Australian composer Paul Smith. The programme: Prokofiev, S: Overture on Hebrew themes for clarinet, string quartet and piano; Smith, P: The…
The Balmain Sinfonia conducted by Gary Stavrou, presents its latest sparkling Sunday afternoon concert on the 31st of May with a feast of Brahms, Elgar, Vivaldi and Donizetti, featuring bassoon virtuoso, Kim Walker. Professor Walker is one of the world’s most celebrated bassoonists, a prolific recording artist and a highly respected international performer, teacher and…