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 Marais Project’s 2013 concert season kicks off with yet another Marais Project first: music by five of the great gamba composers of the French baroque – Marais, Couperin, Forqueray, Dolle and Caix D’Hervelois alongside music by a modern Australian composer – Rosalind Page. Director of the Marais Project, gambist Jennifer Eriksson is fresh from her residency at…
Max Richter, one of the most influential composers of our time is in Sydney to perform as part of Vivid 2016! Depending on how you respond, experiencing Max Richter’s Sleep could either lull you into somnolence in your sleepover at the Sydney Opera House, or it might be that sleep is the furthest thing from your…
The Acacia Quartet will be joined by pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska in a concert presented by Hunter’s Hill Music. Together they will perform one of the cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire, Johannes Brahms’ Piano Quintet. Also on the programme, violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy, violist Stefan Duwe and cellist Anna Martin-Scrase will perform Ludwig…
This Sunday, the Italian Opera Foundation of Australia holds the final of its vocal competition in which six singers will compete for a scholarship to Italy worth $50,000. Angela Brun, Jin Hee Uhm, Amy Corkery, Natalie Aroyan, and Celeste Haworth, all from NSW and Kang Wang (QLD) along with Reserve Finalist Erika Simons (NSW) were selected during the…
“Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are such supreme jewels of Baroque music that 30 years ago I named the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in their honour,” says Paul Dyer, the Brandenburg’s Artistic Director. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra directed by Paul Dyer AO from the harpsichord, performs five of J S Bach’s iconic Brandenburg concertos in commemoration of this anniversary. They will…
Five finalists have been selected from eleven semi-finalists to compete in this year’s IFAC Australian Singing Competition. The finalists who are all under 26, are sopranos Kate Amos and Anna Voshege form Victoria, from Western Australia, sopranos Samantha Clarke and Corinne Cowling and New Zealand soprano Isabella Moore. The five finalists will compete in…