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…
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…
Three Parts Mozart Omega Ensemble, Paul Meyer, clarinet City Recital Hall November 3, 2016 Written By Deen Hamaker The music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is such a fundamental part of the classical repertoire it is easy to forget that he died when he was just 35. He was an incredibly prolific, composing over 600…