Friday’s ACO Homecast features Artistic Director Richard Tognetti and Principal Violin Satu Vänskä performing in a new release of the music of JS Bach, Paganini and Leclair from their Manly home.
In their final concert for 2012, the students of the Conservatorium High School Orchestra and Choir conducted by Carolyn Watson present Australian works marking the end of the school’s Festival of Australian Music. Students of the Conservatorium High School have collaborated with several Australian composers during the course of this project. The programme features a number of…
The Music Performance Unit at the University of New South Wales presents a free lunch hour workshop on the music of Czechoslovakia by Natalie Shea. Natalie Shea trained as a linguist, teacher, translator, singer and musicologist – all skills which she is delighted to be able to place at the service of music. She is currently…
Christ Church St Laurence presents its Advent Carols – a celebration of the beginning of the new church year and of the ‘official’ lead-up to Christmas on the 27th November. In the church service, the choir, directed by Dr Neil McEwen with Peter Jewkes at the organ, will present music by Tallis, Victoria, Shepherd and Herbert Sumsion…
Omega Ensemble’s principal wind musicians are back with a new instalment of musical favourites, full of colour and bravura in Summer Winds II. From the simple style of Damase to the surprising sounds of Berio, this performance also includes the recently re-discovered and restored Wind Quintet by Gustav Holst, as well as the world premiere…
Armed only with their voices, a sly collection of hats and facial hair, The Spooky Men’s Chorale prepare to lay the country to waste…. These de facto archdeacons of low-frequency vocal mayhem, have performed at festivals and concerts all over Australia and internationally, including six critically acclaimed tours of the UK. Now, these fifteen craggy…
Have You Heard the One About…? Have you heard the tale about the slave story-teller from ancient Greece? Whose fables mysteriously travelled from ancient Greece all around the world? We all know the story of the hare and the tortoise, but Aesop’s Fables play a much richer part of our cultural history than just this famous tale. Over one…