The NSW Doctors Orchestra presents Around the World in 80 minutes, its annual fundraising concert which this year features music from all around the globe. As well, the concert showcases pianist Simon Tedeschi who will perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and the Hummingsong Women’s choirs. Musicus Medicus is an orchestra founded in 2004 by General Practitioner Dr Cathy Fraser…
The Sydney Youth Orchestras kick off an exciting year of music-making with their friend and mentor pianist Simon Tedeschi as guest soloist. In Intensity of Emotion Simon Tedeschi will perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1, Op.15 followed by the orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5, Op.64. Simon Tedeschi says “Brahms’ first piano concerto is a tumultuous battle between piano and orchestra,…
Earlier this month, clarinet player Lloyd Van’t Hoff from Brisbane, won the prestigious 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, playing Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch at Federation Concert Hall in Hobart. As the dust settles from his career-making win, Lloyd admitted to SoundsLikeSydney what he thought…