The University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music will stage a week-long music festival featuring an eclectic concert program led by international guest musicians and alumni who are returning to ‘the Con’ to celebrate its centenary. The Centenary Festival, 6-11 October 2015, is the second major event to mark 100 years of music at the Con…
It was an evening when the gentlest of instruments took centre stage. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, performed music for fortepiano and period flute by Mozart and his contemporaries. Upstaged by its more precocious descendent the pianoforte, the fortepiano is infrequently heard as a solo instrument, often being relegated to the role of an accompanying instrument….
Commemorating twenty-five years of performance since its inception in January 1990, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has released Brandenburg Celebrates a new studio recording of Baroque exemplars which showcases the talents of the ensemble as well as the more challenging task of snapping a cross-section of its repertoire over this time. Artistic Director and Co-Founder…