The Scots’ Church International Organ Series | Concert 4: Student Recital September 14, 2024, The Scots' Church, Melbourne, VIC Organ and harpsichord students from Thomas Heywood, Jennifer Chou, Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence Opportunities for performance...
Articles + Reviews By Daniel Brace
VO’s Sweeny Todd spectacularly gruesome and entertaining
Victorian Opera | Sweeney Todd September 14, 2024, Playhouse Theatre, Melbourne, VIC This production is spectacularly gruesome and entertaining in the best way. The talent shines on and off the stage, with first mention going to Conductor Phoebe Briggs, the Victorian...
Exhilarating playing begins the Scots’ International Organ Series
Scots' International Organ Series | Concert 1 Saturday Sept 7, 2024, The Scots' Church, Melbourne, VIC The performer Asher Watters-Cowan is a talented Australian organist who teaches music in regional and remote communities all over Tropical Far North Queensland and...
Freshness, vitality and wonderful sound from St Pauls’ Messiah
St Paul's Cathedral | Handel's Messiah September 6, 2024, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne Vic For lots of the boys and girls of the combined choir and no doubt for some in the packed out pews of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne - including my Dad and my step-mum, Gina -...
MSO’s Fauré Requiem – kind, gentle, with outstanding soloists
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Fauré's Requiem August 29, 2024, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presented a program of miniature masterpieces, perfect pieces that left us completely satisfied. The first half of the program was...
GALA NextGen showcases emerging talent on the ‘King of Instruments’
GALA NextGen Organ Concert | May 26, 2024 Presented by the Australian New Zealand College of Organists (anzco.org) on The Fincham Grand Organ at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. GALA NextGen is a regular showcase for emerging talent on the ‘King of Instruments’...
MSO Chorus – fine singing bursting with drama and humour
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus | Song Cycles 26 May, 2024, Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne, VIC Like me, you’ve probably enjoyed the chorus of your symphony orchestra in wonderful works like the Beethoven Ninth, and no year seems complete without a performance of...
MSO celebrates Indigenous Australian composers and musicians
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | First Voices Showcase 22 May, 2024, Iwaki Auditorium, Southbank, VIC Two years ago Aaron Wyatt picked up his conductor's baton and made history as the first Indigenous Australian to have conducted one of the state symphony orchestras in...
MSO presents a charming and emotional evening at Melbourne Town Hall
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Jaime conducts Enigma Variations 3 May, 2024, Melbourne Town Hall, Vic In Victorian times the Melbourne Town Hall must have buzzed as the centre of social and musical society, although it wasn’t until 1929 that the Grand Organ was...
200 years later, The Orchestra Project presents Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with energy and vitality
The Orchestra Project | Bicentenary of the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis April 7, 2024, St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, VIC Lee Abrahmsen, Liane Keegan, Robert Macfarlane, Christopher Hillier, The Chorus and Players of the Orchestra...