The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) kicks off 2013 and their Met season with two performances of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Brahms’ Double Concerto for Violin and Cello and Sibelius’ Symphony no 3. Guest artists Katherine Lukey (Principal First Violin, Melbourne Symphony) and cellist Simon Cobcroft (Associate Principal Cello, Queensland Symphony) will travel to Sydney to perform as…
The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams finishes its 2012 season with its largest orchestra for the year, presenting music that it new to its repertoire. It will be the first time TMO has performed a Brahms symphony, when they perform his Symphony No 1 in C minor opus 68, alongside Schubert’s Symphony Number 8 in B minor ‘Unfinished’ , D…
Cellist Patrick Murphy Cellist Patrick Murphy joins the Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO), conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams, for its September MET series concerts in North Sydney and Balmain, performing Camille Saint-Saëns’ much loved Cello Concerto No 1 in A minor, opus 33. Although his first concerto for cello, Saint-Saëns was already an experienced composer of the larger orchestral form, having already written four…