Sydney Chamber Choir | Bach’s Mass in B minor November 22, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW The full-house audience at the City Recital Hall were buzzing with excitement in anticipation of the Sydney Chamber Choir performing Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Muffat...
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Cathy-Di Zhang shines in Festival Chorus’ dazzling German Requiem
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs - Festival Chorus | Brahms' German Requiem 25 October, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW The German Requiem by Johannes Brahms is no ordinary Requiem - it is extraordinary! Unlike the Latin Requiem Masses by other composers, Brahms used...
The new Magnificals Chamber Orchestra played up a storm
The Magnificals Chamber Orchestra | A Musical Soirée October 3, 2025, St Stephens Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW On a lovely spring evening an audience of friends and followers gathered at St Stephens Uniting Church in Macquarie St, Sydney to hear the magnificent...
Bel a cappella expertly brings Shakespeare’s words to song
Bel a cappella | O Mistress Mine 6 September, 2025, Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman, NSW It was a sunny Saturday afternoon, with the sun shining through the stained glass windows of the hall at the Mosman Art Gallery enhancing the pleasant atmosphere. Bel a cappella were...
Sydney Chamber Choir’s Faure – spine shiveringly beautiful
Sydney Chamber Choir | Fauré Requiem 5 April, 2025, St James Church, Sydney, NSW On a golden Autumn afternoon we entered the historic St James Church in King St., Sydney to hear the Sydney Chamber Choir sing the Fauré Requiem and other works by various composers....
The exuberant joy of Bel a cappella’s ‘O Sing!’
Bel a cappella | O Sing! 29 March, 2025, St Augustine's Church, Balmain, NSW “O Sing!" - This is what Bel a cappella do - they have been doing it for 30 years, and they do it very well. They did it again with exuberant joy in this beautifully curated program dedicated...
A great evening with Ensemble Nobiles – Always entertaining!
Goethe Lounge | Ensemble Nobiles 20 Februrary, 2025, Goethe-Institut, Woollahra, NSW It was a beautiful summer’s evening when we entered the Goethe Lounge at the Goethe-Institut in Woollahra. We were welcomed by the Institute Director, Christoph Mücher and Jochen...
Bel a cappella’s concert with Balmain Sinfonia a sheer delight!
Bel a cappella | Sanctus August 25, 2024, St Augustine's, Balmain, NSW There was a frisson of excitement as music lovers crowded into Balmain’s beautiful St.Augustine’s Catholic Church on a warm, cloudy Sunday afternoon. Bel a cappella were to perform with members of...
This concert was DIVINE! AHE Heavenly Sopranos
Australian Haydn Ensemble | Heavenly Sopranos Tuesday April 16, 2024, City Recital Hall, Sydney NSW Although it is tempting to play with words around Celeste, Skye and Heavenly, I will simply say this concert was DIVINE! The AHE with Skye McIntosh and Matthew Greco on...
Song Company’s Superbloom ‘a form of worship in song’ superbly performed
The Song Company | Superbloom March 7, 2024, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Superbloom describes the miraculous blooming of the desert after unusual rain - there is an extreme contrast between the arid and the lush. Guest Director Jane Sheldon embraced this...









