Melbourne Digital Concert Hall’s Sydney season presents violinist Emma Jardine with pianist Benjamin Kopp,performing form the National Art School.
A concert performance of the groundbreaking opera, Harvey Milk will premiere in Sydney in November, presented by Left Bauer Productions and the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir. Composed by Stewart Wallace to libretto by Michael Korie, the production will be directed by Cameron Lukey and conducted by Sarah Penicka- Smith with pianist Chris Cartner. In January 1978, after his…
Omega Ensemble is joined by Melbourne cellist Howard Penny in its final Virtuoso Series concert for 2018, Momentum, featuring the music of Schubert and Mendelssohn. Scored unusually for two violins, viola and two cellos, Schubert’s Cello Quintet was composed during the final weeks of the composer’s life, and ranks among his greatest accomplishments. This momentous…
A capella ensemble Bel a capella conducted by its Music Director Anthony Pasquill, presents Sergei Rachmaninov’s Vespers opus 37 in a programme of Russian choral music in early November. The world was in turmoil when Rachmaninov composed this work in 1915. The first world war was being waged and the social, religious and political landscape…
A novel and exciting collaboration is born with drumming ensemble TaikOz and classical Indian dance company Lingalayam joining forces to perform Chi Udaka, a world premiere presented by the Sydney Festival and the Seymour Centre. The powerful rhythms of TaikOz merge with the intricate classical Indian dance movements of Bharatha Natyam and Kuchipudi as both…
Rhythm is fundamental to life. Without it there would be no heartbeat, no pulse, no phases of the moon, no night or day, summer or winter. It is fundamental to music around the world whether generated by the tabla, the snare drum, the timpani or the djembe. Drums create the beat to which music flows. In an…
Baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes and flautist Jane Rutter perform together in a concert which will include music by Handel, Schubert, Mozart, Donizetti, Faure and Tosti. As well, Teddy Tahu Rhodes will sing some of his favourite love songs from Rogers and Hammerstein and the duo will perform some best-loved Celtic Folk Songs, with Jane Rutter showing…