For their October concert, the Sirius Chamber Ensemble is joined by the engaging and talented soprano Taryn Srhoj who returns to perform in Postcards from Vienna, featuring music premiered in Vienna between 1777 and 1913. The earliest piece, Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D major (No.1) will be followed by the more recent, Seven Early Songs…
The Australian Haydn Ensemble under Artistic Director performs a rare chamber version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, along with a virtuosic Flute Sextet by Boccherini and Mozart’s much-loved String Quartet in D minor. It has been suggested that Mozart may have written his string quintets K. 515 and K. 516 to impress King Friedrich Wilhelm…
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge directed by Stephen Layton tours Australia this July for Musica Viva. Stephen Layton is one of the leading choral directors of our time. For this tour they will perform one of the 20th-century’s most beautiful choral works: the 1922 Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir by Frank Martin and a rich cache of…
Soulfood a capella ensemble is running a masterclass on arranging, offering a hands-on, behind-the-scenes look at creating that signature Soulfood sound. Soulfood’s Artistic Director, Melissa Kenny will conduct this three-hour during which four original arrangements ranging from up tempo to ballads will be deconstructed and put together again. Participants will then create a new piece in…
Gluck’s rarely performed comic opera Les pèlerins de la Mecque (The Pilgrims to Mecca) comes to life this week in a co-production between the The Sydney Conservatorium of Music’s Opera Studio and its Early Music Ensemble. The last of Gluck’s comic operas, it was written in 1764 and is also known as La Rencontre imprévue (The Unexpected Encounter). It is…
The Streeton Trio’s Czech Masterpieces explores the masterworks of some of the most beloved Czech composers as well as celebrating the release of the ensemble’s new CD. Their programme includes The Elegy for Piano Trio by Suk as an appetiser before Dvorak’s famous ‘Dumky’ piano trio and Smetana’s Piano Trio in G minor piano trio. As ever…