With the news that Britain’s House of Commons has approved same-sex marriage in England and Wales, a Sydney recital with a twist aims to raise funds for Australian Marriage Equality. Sopranos and tenors, altos and baritones swap arias to raise money and awareness for marriage equality rights in Australia. Popular arias by Mozart, Puccini,…
The Sydney Consort presents an evening of exquisite devotional music composed throughout the years especially for Good Friday. Caldara’s masterpiece Stabat Mater is the centerpiece of this concert. Written for soprano, alto, tenor and bass with trombones, strings and organ, the poignant arias and the dramatic beauty of this work stems from writing that is heartfelt and distinctly…
The Bangalow Music Festival is 10 years old! The milestone festival this year runs from the 12th– 14th August and offers 10 concerts of mostly chamber music and culminating in a Baroque opera – Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas as a grand finale. The Southern Cross Soloists provide the nerve centre for the performances. It comprises Artistic Director…
Omega Ensemble presents the first of four concerts in their 2019 Virtuoso Series with a performance of Mozart’s incomparable Serenade No 10 in B flat, the Gran Partita, K361 . Considered Mozart’s greatest work for winds, the ‘Gran Partita’ Serenade for 13 musicians is as captivating today as it was groundbreaking at its first performance. For this concert,…
The Sydney International Piano Competition presents its recent Showbiz Classics recital to watch online. Recorded live on 17 October in Verbrugghen Hall, pianist Gerard Willems takes a personally curated journey through some of the great classical music that has featured on the stage and silver screen. He and well-known broadcaster and author Rachael Kohn then…
Iranian percussion virtuoso Mohammad Reza Mortazavi will make his Australian debut in the intimate Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House Born in Isfahan and now based in Berlin, Mortazavi first took up the tombak – a Persian goblet drum – at the age of six, quickly surpassing his teacher and winning the highly prestigious annual…