‘Blossom and Grow’ with Selby and Friends

‘Blossom and Grow’ with Selby and Friends

  In their opening Sydney concert for 2013, Blosson and Grow, Selby and Friends showcase the piano in a trio, a quartet and a quintet, performing music drawn from the last 250 years. Mozart’s Classical approach in the Piano Trio in G major, KV 564, is followed by Fauré’s impressionistic Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.15. The concert ends with a Romantic era chamber…

From Prodigy to Prodigious with Selby and Friends

From Prodigy to Prodigious with Selby and Friends

For their 2012 finale, Selby and Friends perform music that is the stuff of brilliance by Mozart, Beethoven, Smetana and Norwegian composer Halvorsen. Performing the selection of trios and duos are violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto, cellist Emma-Jane Murphy and pianist Kathryn Selby. The three performers are internationally celebrated professionals. Japanese virtuoso violinist Natsuko Yoshimoto is concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and former leader of…

Selby and friends – a feast of rarities

Selby and friends – a feast of rarities

For the fourth tour of the 2012 Selby & Friends concert season, pianist Kathryn Selby is joined by British violinist Elizabeth Layton, former member of the famed Nash Ensemble and leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Australian violist Glen Donnelly and virtuoso cellist Julian Smiles, in a program of masterpiece for piano quartet. The programme includes My Song…