A genius is born not made and when genius is dished out it can be the sunny side of an endowment inextricably linked with darker shadows which set the individual apart from the rest of us in ways that are both blessed and cursed. The extraordinarily gifted pianist David Helfgott has thrilled and intrigued audiences, and…
In the three years since its founding in 2009, the then Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra has accumulated a busy performing schedule and grown rapidly in scope, performing across genres and with many respected soloists, amongst them, clarinetist Francesco Celata, cellist Emma-Jane Murphy, tenors Rosario La Spina and Henry Choo, baritone Barry Ryan, sopranos Anke Höppner and Teresa La Rocca and…
As part of its Indy series and Leichhardt Council’s Site and Sound Festival, the Metropolitan Orchestra presents a chamber music concert featuring Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet K581 and Dvorak’s String Quartet in F major, no 12, opus 96, the ‘American’. The serenely beautiful clarinet quintet is one of Mozart’s later works, written in 1798 and considered to be typical…