Nicholas Parle | A Golden Age of Keyboard Music August 25, 2024, St Brigid’s Marrickville, NSW On an overcast afternoon in inner west Sydney, I had the pleasure of attending […]
Orange Chamber Music Festival | Folk Fables and Pleasures Thursday March 7 | Kinross Wolaroi School, Orange NSW The opening concert of the Orange Chamber Music Festival on Thursday night […]
Orange Chamber Music Festival | Gala Concert Saturday March 9 | Civic Theatre, Orange, NSW A highlight of this year’s Orange Chamber Music Festival was the Saturday night Gala at […]
Orange Chamber Music Festival | March 7 to 10, 2024 Wow, another Orange Chamber Music Festival has finished, the fourth so far, and isn’t it going places, covering not just […]
A Viennese Bouquet: Music for flute and piano | Melissa Farrow and Erin Helyard Featuring two well-known Australian exponents of period instruments, flautist Melissa Farrow and fortepianist Erin Helyard, playing […]
Emily Granger and Sally Walker | Something Like This CD released October, 2023 In their first CD collaboration, flautist Sally Walker and harpist Emily Granger combine the old with the […]
The Beecroft Orchestra | Spring Gala September 17, 2023, Cheltenham Girls’ High School, NSW In the light-filled spacious new Cheltenham Girls’ High School hall on a hot Sunday afternoon, many […]
Mozart composed a set of 6 String Quartets, dedicated to his mentor, Josef Haydn, in 1782-85, the second of which is the only one in a minor key and which […]
Emily Granger, a well-known American harpist now residing in Australia, has released her debut solo album, In Transit, on the independent boutique label Avie and what a treat it is! […]
Bach Akademie Australia | Obbligato Sonatas Holy Name Church Wahroonga, June 20, 2021 On a cold, wet, and windy winter’s afternoon, the audience at the Parish of the Holy Name […]
A Scottish lass named Lucy Havens who migrated to Sydney with her family in 1839 was in possession of a large portfolio of sheet music, comprising of some 2,500 works, […]
Melbourne Ensemble and Dale Barltrop | Schubert’s Octet Melbourne Digital Concert Hall’s Hamer Hall Series | Nov 25, 2020 In 1824, towards the end of his tragically short life, Schubert […]
On a pleasant Tuesday evening just over a week before Christmas, River City Voices, a choral group from western Sydney in its inaugural year, joined forces with members of the […]
On a cool overcast Sunday afternoon in Sydney, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, a leading period instrument group established in 2012, gave its final concert for 2019 under the guest directorship […]
As a celebratory segue to the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven‘s birth in 2020, the final Willoughby Symphony Orchestra concert for 2019 began with the instantly recognisable Egmont Overture, Op. 84. Beethoven […]
The final concert of the inaugural week-long Eastside Sydney Music Festival (ESMF), curated by Professor Neal Pere da Costa and supported by Sydney University, was an all-Baroque affair held at […]
A new recording on the independent Australian label, Tall Poppies, showcasing transcriptions for violin and piano, is cleverly and most appropriately named “In Other Words“. Both violinist, Anna McMichael, and […]
How better to spend a rather chilly, drizzly, overcast Saturday afternoon in Sydney than to attend a concert given by the Australian Haydn Ensemble (AHE), a group specialising in historically-informed […]
