The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) will premiere Nigel Westlake’s new work Sacred Sky in an evocative program alongside works by Charles Ives and Claude Debussy. Commissioned by the ASQ and written as an homage to the spirit of his late sister Kate, who passed away in early 2018, Westlake’s piece renders emotions related to life…
Australian String Quartet. Image Jacqui Way The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) welcomes the return of its cellist Sharon Grigoryan who has been on parental leave after the birth of her and husband Slava Grigoryan’s first child. The ASQ comprising violinists Dale Barltrop and Francesca Hiew and violist Stephen King are thrilled to be once again…
The Australian String Quartet’s (ASQ) “Travel across time” program presented by the Sydney Mozart Society features works across the centuries by composers expressing the noblest of feelings. It begins with the Baroque sophistication of Scarlatti’s graceful sonata; Romantic lushness heightens the tenderness of Puccini’s Crisantemi; Mozart’s string quartet has charm and delicacy expressed with Classical elegance,…