Australia’s oldest and most famous early music group The Renaissance Players directed by its founder and international doyen of early music, Associate Professor Winsome Evans BEM OAM, presents the 36th Runnymede Pop Festival, a new 2014 program of medieval European music and poetry. The line-up for this concert series includes singers Jessica O’Donoghue and Mitchell…
Australia’s premier and longest-running early music ensemble, The Renaissance Players will perform British Beasts, Birds and Bards – a concert of English traditional and folk music from the 16th century to the 1970s – with a 20th century twist! A touch of mediæval song (ornamented with flourishes from later times) and music by the young, lusty King…
“We’re righting a wrong to present composers whose works are de rigeur in the rest of the world as a festival event .” A potent statement from Jack Symonds, conductor and music director of Sydney Chamber Opera about the double-bill the company is presenting for the Sydney Festival. Under the collective title His Music…