Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; New York Stories Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House 17 March 2023 Conductor: Andrea Molino, Piano: Simon Tedeschi Firmly rooted in jazz and heavily slanted towards New York in the early 20th century, this popular...
Articles + Reviews By Daniel Kaan
Australian Haydn Ensemble’s String Quartet, a generous sonorous whole
Australian Haydn Ensemble String Quartet | Haydn's Sun and Mendelssohn's Stars February 19, 2023, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Skye McIntosh, violin Matthew Greco, violin Karina Schmitz, viola Daniel Yeadon, cello Aside from the heavenly bodies of the title, the...
BackStage Music | The Mechanical Fiddle – long may the scene live!
Backstage Music: The Mechanical Fiddle Saturday, 4 February 7:30pm, Woodburn Creatives, Waterloo Featuring Kyla Matsuura-Miller on violin, and Claire Edwardes with Niki Johnson, Jack Peggie, Kerryn Joyce and Alison Pratt on percussion. For those not familiar with...
Sydney Chamber Choir, from the depths of Shade to the joy of Light
Sydney Chamber Choir & The Muffat Collective: Light & Shade 19 November 2022, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium In the interest of full disclosure, I used to be a member of this choir when it was first formed as the Sydney University Chamber Choir in...
Ian Munro gets heads a-bobbing and hearts racing
Sydney Mozart Society: Ian Munro in Recital 6 October 2022, Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood Mozart, Mozart, alles Mozart, as far as the eye can see. The Sydney Mozart Society, presenting an all-Mozart program by pianist Ian Munro, whose stated his favourite composer...
Luminescence Chamber Singers’ emotive world premiere brings tears to the eyes
Luminescence Chamber Singers: Ave Regina Sunday 10 April, 2022, Glebe Town Hall Luminescence is a Canberra based group here conducted by Roland Peelman, formerly of Song Company fame in Sydney. The same high standard of a cappella singing to which we had grown...
Hats off to The Song Company for Liquid Days
The Song Company - Close up: Liquid chokbolger mod impotens hvordan hurtigt ges 2 Days The Wharf Studio, Sydney 24/3/2022 Program: Laurie Anderson: Thinking of you Philip Glass: Songs from Liquid Days Paul Simon: The Boy in the Bubble The core work of this program is...
Review: Sinking Cities, an impressive new work
Camerata and The Australian Voices Sinking Cities Composer: Rafael Karlen Libretto: Pearly Black World premiere performance on Australian Digital Concert Hall, Streamed live from Judith Wright Arts Centre, Brisbane, Friday 11 February, 7:30pm The 1,750 km Tigris...
Review: Sinking Cities, an impressive new work
Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, and The Australian Voices Sinking Cities Composer: Rafael Karlen Libretto: Pearly Black World premiere performance on Australian Digital Concert Hall, Streamed live from Judith Wright Arts Centre, Brisbane, Friday 11...
Review: Letters to Juliet fascinating and intriguing
Phoenix Collective Quartet & Jacqueline Dark: The Juliet Letters Hunter Baillie Church, Annandale, 27 November 2021 The Juliet Letters is a song cycle written collaboratively in the early 1990s by English songwriter Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. The...