Omega Ensemble Plays A Double Feast

Omega Ensemble Plays A Double Feast

The Omega Ensemble presents a double feast of quartets and quintets of grand masterpieces, watershed moments and world premieres with Artistic Director David Rowden, violinists Natsuko Yoshimoto and Ike See, violist Neil Thompson and cellist Paul Stender. This programme of two quartets and two quintets features The Lark string quartet by Haydn, is a perfect representative of the…

Album Review: Omega Ensemble: Mozart/ Munro/ Palmer

Album Review: Omega Ensemble: Mozart/ Munro/ Palmer

The Sydney based Omega Ensemble has come of age with its debut album Mozart-Munro-Palmer (ABC Classics 481 4667) that gathers a triptych of works for clarinet and chamber ensemble. The album features Artistic Director David Rowden, who founded the ensemble in 2005, as the clarinet soloist anchoring the tracks with the matchless Clarinet Quintet in…

Omega Ensemble Perform ‘Mozart Three Ways’

Omega Ensemble Perform ‘Mozart Three Ways’

Omega Ensemble with guest conductor and clarinetist Paul Meyer and soloist Ben Hoadley (bassoon) under the artistic direction of David Rowden presents Three Parts Mozart in which the music of Mozart is ‘served’ three ways in an alluring feast of classical treats. Guest directed by renowned French clarinetist and conductor Paul Meyer, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in…