A world-premiere performance of a new Elena Kats-Chernin work headlines the 2016 Chancellor’s Concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Friday 8 April. The concerto for saxophone entitled Macquarie’s Castle, salutes the magnificent building that was Governor Macquarie’s horse stables turned music school in 1915, and today houses the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The Soviet-born Elena Kats-Chernin…
Composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin, and her long-time collaborator, pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska join forces to showcase their formidable talents in Butterflying, a performance in duet, playing the music of Kats-Chernin. With four hands on one piano, the two pianists will play new treasures and old favourites. Elena Kats-Chernin has created works for choir, chamber ensemble and opera including…
The Australian World Orchestra will celebrate its 5-year anniversary in 2016 with two performances conducted by Alexander Briger and Stanley Dodds. The programmes feature works by Beethoven, Dvorak, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Concerto for 8 double basses The Witching Hour. Following the success of the 2015 season under Sir Simon…