Calvin Bowman, Australian composer, pianist and organist, joins the Decca Australia label with a world première recordings of his songs, Real and Right and True released on July 13, 2018. The title Real and Right and True, is taken from a set of nine poems by celebrated Australian cartoonist, writer and painter Michael Leunig, whose painting ‘Autumn Harvest’…
Australia Ensemble is joined by guest artists soprano Sara Macliver, Andrew Barnes, bassoon, Robert Johnson, horn and Andrew Meisel, double bass in a programme entitled Thirteen ways of Looking at a Blackbird, after the poem by Wallace Steven. The concert includes the first performance of a new work for voice and ensemble by Ian Munro,…
Beautiful Boccherini – Australian Haydn Ensemble with Sara Macliver, soprano Skye McIntosh (Artistic Director & violin)/ Simone Slattery (violin)/ James Eccles (viola)/ Anthony Albrecht (cello)/ Jacqueline Dosser (double bass)/ Melissa Farrow (flute) Cell Block Theatre, Darlinghurst Sunday 13 March 2016 The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s (AHE) inaugural Sydney concert for their 2016 season opened with the first movement of Boccherini’s Flute Quintet in g…