Pianist Kathy Selby teams up with clarinettist Cathy McCorkill and cellist Julian Smiles for Selby and Friends’ third tour of the year called Magical Miniatures. The programme features bite-sized pieces of music written for various combinations of this classic trio of instruments. The programme includes music by three great German Romantic masters, Bruch, Brahms and Schumann, French impressionists Debussy and Fauré,…
Over the years, the Sydney Chamber Choir has garnered a reputation for its sophisticated performances of the best in both established and emerging choral music. Musical Director Paul Stanhope has also extended the concept of ‘classical’ choral performances and pioneered programmes of music that crosses faiths and underscores similarities rather than differences in beliefs. The ultimate question of this aesthetic is whether religion and music can…
Willoughby Symphony will launch its 2012 Symphonic Odyssey concert series with the passionate and exhilarating Enigma Variations, at their newly developed Concert Hall on The Concourse in the Chatswood city centre. Performing under the baton of Chief Conductor, Dr Nicholas Milton, the Willoughby Symphony will open the concert with Graeme Koehne’s thrilling Elevator Music (1997). Joining…