Get ready for good times as award-winning vocal group Soulfood a Cappella sings your favourite Aussie classics in Songs from our Backyard! This rippa of a show is chock-a-block with fresh, original covers of Paul Kelly, Missy Higgins, Hoodoo Gurus, Icehouse, Sia, and heaps more from our own backyard.
The ARIA award-winning Grigoryan brothers, Slava and Leonard will join flautist Jane Rutter for the final Live at Lunch concert for 2015. The brothers will perform a selection of exciting and technically demanding classical and contemporary works for two guitars. Born nine years apart, Slava and Leonard have developed a fusion of styles that create a unique sound that…
The Penrith Symphony Orchestra is joined by four soloists from Opera Australia and a chorus of more than a hundred voices to perform Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent Requiem. This masterpiece will be heard live for the first time in Penrith, under the baton of the orchestra’s artistic director Paul Terracini. Soprano Annabelle Chaffey, mezzo-soprano Anna Yun, tenor Jin…
ARIA award-winning quartet The Idea of North takes the stage alongside acclaimed 50 voice local choir Soulfood a Cappella in Vocal Feast, a concert of arrangements of pop classics by Stevie Wonder, Sting, Michael Jackson and more. In this first-time collaboration between these two accomplished vocal groups, the superb vocal agility of The Idea of North…
Omega Ensemble presents American Masters, a concert that will feature music by Philip Glass and John Adams as well as a new work by the acclaimed, ground-breaking American composer Nico Muhly. Commissioned for Omega Ensemble for their 2019 Season, the new work is written for chamber ensemble and solo baritone, featuring Australian baritone Brett Brown who…
The legendary cellist Steven Isserlis is joined by brilliant young Canadian pianist Connie Shih on his fourth tour for Musica Viva, presenting works by four great composers united by their love of all things French. The programme commences with Saint-Saëns’ first cello sonata, a wild and dramatic work with a gripping opening that gives way to passionate…
Central Coast Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s much-loved La bohème, conducted by Patrick Brennan and directed by Warwick Doddrell. An affiliate of Central Coast Conservatorium, Central Coast Opera’s production, of La bohème, is set to continue the successful run of productions delivered by this growing opera company. Following successful productions of Bizet’s Carmen in 2017, Mozart’s The Magic Flute in…