The Sydney Chamber Choir directed by Paul Stanhope presents Going Bjork, a concert in which they will be joined by ARIA Award-winning a cappella quartet The Idea of North to explore the music of Icelandic pop princess Bjørk, and Scandinavian composers both popular and classical, including The Real Group, Knut Nystedt, Jan Sandström and ABBA. Also in the program…
Faure’s Requiem The Sydney Chamber Choir and The Metropolitan Orchestra, April 12 2014. the City Recital Hall, Sydney. In a world where concert producers seem to draw on a dizzying array of devices to tantalise audiences, the Sydney Chamber Choir delivered a potent reminder of the power of music, dispensing with distractions and focusing…
Chamber/cello – There are two outstanding chamber music events in April with the Sitkovetsky Trio presented by Music Viva performing the music of Smetana, Beethoven (the Archduke Trio) and the world premiere of a new work by Carl Vine, commissioned for Music Viva by Julian Burnside AO QC to commemorate the composer’s 60th birthday. April…