The Sydney Chamber Choir celebrates 40 years of music making with the launch of its 2015 programme. Musical Director Paul Stanhope observes “Despite the number of candles on our cake, we are every bit as adventurous as when we were young upstarts!” adding “The choir continues to renew itself through a strong intake of fresh talent,…
The extraordinary events of the 1914 Christmas Truce will be commemorated by Sydney Children’s Choir and Gondwana National Choirs directed by Lyn Williams OAM, in Voices of Angels ‘Miracles’ this December. The centenary of this remarkable event that witnessed the silencing of rifles along the Western Front in exchange for seasonal goodwill will be celebrated in evocative performances…
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) welcomes three guest artists in their final national tour for 2014, Relativity. Award‐winning soprano Greta Bradman will join the ASQ to perform Paul Stanhope’s Sea Chronicles, a song cycle for soprano and string quartet which celebrates Australia’s unique coastal environment and the late Peter Sculthorpe’s Island Dreaming, a single‐movement work which draws together…