Pepe Newton

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Pepe Newton

Pepe is classikON's Managing Director. She is an avid concert-goer and self confessed choir nerd, regularly performing and touring with no less than 5 different choirs to countries ranging from Poland to Cuba over the last few years. Through her board positions in choirs and her role with classikON she is actively involved in the exciting Australian art music scene, including the promotion and commissioning of new Australian music. Running classikON presents a perfect opportunity for Pepe to pair her love of classical music with her ‘real life’ qualifications in business management and administration.

SOH Concert Hall – A world class home for a world class orchestra

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Mahler 2 July 20, 2022, Sydney Opera House Oh, how we have missed you so in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall SSO! […]

Sydney Eisteddfod’s $61,000 Opera Scholarship for 2022 to be decided June 26

Over the last month, 38 talented young classical singers from across Australia and New Zealand, have competed in the heats for a place in the 2022 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship […]

Conductor Sam Allchurch reflects on Innocence & Experience

Sam Alllchurch is the Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Choir which is performing Innocence & Experience for two concerts on Saturday 25 June. The concert is a celebration of Sydney […]

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HERE: a meditation on identity, locality, and reconnection

Coming to Sydney’s inner west at Annandale Creative Arts Centre on May 30, 2022 – HERE is a meditation on identity, locality, and reconnection in the wake of isolation told […]

Orange Chamber Music Festival sparkles with freshness

Back in the 60’s you could purchase a few hundred grams of rare Mt Canobolas Ozone “Canned under supervision on the summit of Mt Canobolas during Cherry Blossom to capture […]

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Rob Hao – Hipster-inspired Music and Romantic Miniaturism

Rob Hao | Indie Ditties Utzon Room, April 8, 2022 A concert rarely offers the opportunity to listen to hipster-inspired music and Romantic miniaturism in the same night. Rob Hao’s […]

Ensemble Offspring launch ‘The Offcast: Conversations with musical mavericks’

On May 3 Ensemble Offspring launches their new podcast ‘The Offcast’ – In a series of punchy and upbeat interviews Artistic Director Claire Edwardes chats to musical mavericks and pioneers […]

Composer Feature: Anne Cawrse – Advice to a Girl

Advice to a Girl Music by Anne Cawrse Album released February 2022 With thanks to Chamber Music Adelaide classikON hears from composer Anne Cawrse about her first album…   Advice […]

The Orchestra Project triumphantly celebrates 20 years

The Orchestra Project April 17, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney When I walked into the Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Easter Sunday the place was positively buzzing. Don’t […]

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Coro Austral’s MisaTango a triumph

Coro Austral | TANGO April 10, 2022, Mosman Art Gallery The Mosman Art Gallery and Community Centre has hosted many fine concerts. On Sunday 10 April 2022, the impressive stained-glass […]

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Camerata announces 2022 Regional QLD Tour

Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presents a sublime program of music intertwining a new Australian work with timeless masterpieces on their 2022 regional tour, visiting Mackay, Rockhampton, Emerald, Barcaldine and […]

Three cheers to the organisers of BAMF!

Bowral Autumn Music Festival 24 – 27 March 2022 I must say up front… Three cheers to the organisers of BAMF for their sheer tenacity and agility last weekend! As […]

Composer Byron Mark releases first single from new album…

Burbujas’ is the first release off Australian composer Byron Mark’s new instrumental album Odyssey. Scored for piano, string quartet, tabla (Indian drum) and cajon (flamenco drum) the piece is inspired […]

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Australian Chamber Choir bring to life a female composer’s work from 280 years past

During Vivaldi’s time teaching at the Ospedale della Pietà (1703-40), this orphanage developed an international reputation for its concerts, presented exclusively by the young women who were educated there. His […]

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50 Years of Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra!

The Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra returns with a full year of exciting concerts and celebrates its 50th Anniversary year, kicking off celebrations with Fiftieth Anniversary Pictures on Saturday 12 March at […]

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Phoenix Collective Quartet’s darkness and light

Whilst sitting in Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church, you get encapsulated by an amazing ambient atmosphere that allows for the most sedate and gentle of sounds to add to the […]

Murakawa + Gorbach in secret passages under the city

We’re in Buenos Aires, sipping on an Argentinian Malbec and watching the sultry shadows of dancers glance off the blue lit walls of the secret underground portico hosting tonight’s clandestine […]

Review: Melbourne Baroque Orchestra – Bursting back onto the scene

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Courting the Timpani February 13, 2022, 3pm at Toorak Uniting Church Right now is a very special time to attend concerts. Musicians whose diaries had previously […]

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