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.

Ensemble Offspring leads us down their garden path

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Book tickets to a Sunday morning recital at ‘someone’s house’ in the inner west Sydney suburb of Tempe (address to be disclosed to ticket holders […]

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Ensemble Offspring leads us down their garden path

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Book tickets to a Sunday morning recital at ‘someone’s house’ in the inner west Sydney suburb of Tempe (address to be disclosed to ticket holders […]

Sydney Eisteddfod launches 2022 Festival

Are you longing for the stage? Well, Sydney Eisteddfod are longing to watch you perform! Now in its 89th year, the Sydney Eisteddfod is emerging from two years of COVID […]

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Camerata, one of Australia’s busiest ensembles, bursts into 2022

Performing without a conductor, Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra’s Artistic Associates and their guests proudly take full ownership of their music-making in the spirit of chamber music to form a […]

CD review: Yardley’s transcendent medieval-inspired music for modern times

David Yardley, The Lost Codex of Avalon Album Launch – Dec 18, 2021, Sydney ‘Fantasy and medieval music for our times’ is what David Yardley’s website promises and, judging by […]

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s 2022 Concert Season

The past two years have taught Rachael Beesley & Nicole van Bruggen, Co-Artistic Directors of Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, a great many things, but what they have learned above […]

Australia Ensemble UNSW 2022 – A sumptuous feast of music

With a sense of renewed hope, the Australia Ensemble UNSW returns to the stage in 2022 for their 43rd annual subscription season with a sumptuous feast of music, ranging from […]

Review: Twist’s triumphant Australian Song Cycle

Sydney Chamber Choir | Garden of the Soul November 20, 2021 – Independent Theatre, North Sydney, It’s not every day you find yourself musically swept into a warm deep ocean […]

3 New Concert Series – Live at Yours launches 2022

World class music on your doorstep With three new concert series in Sydney Live at Yours, an ambitious, musician-led initiative by internationally recognised Australian conductor Vladimir Fanshil and acclaimed soprano […]

$21,000 Freedman Classical Fellowship live streaming on NOV 25

Don’t miss the Finale for the 2021 Freedman Classical Fellowship in a deciding concert to be Live Streamed for audiences On Thursday November 25 from 7:30pm, four trail-blazing young instrumentalists […]

Claire Edwardes and Nick Russoniello, real, live musical enigmas

Just down the street from Sydney’s Green Square station, is a funkily designed space with high ceilings, terrazzo flooring and tessellated tiles, to me Mecca coffee screams out “make music […]

Why Joe Twist’s new work, An Australian Song Cycle, is so special…

Sydney Chamber Choir is this month premiering An Australian Song Cycle by Joe Twist. ClassikON talks to the eclectic composer about writing for so many mediums and why this new […]

Emily Mirla Harrison’s story of Remembrance. Lest we Forget.

At just 17 and 19 years of age Mirla and Arthur were falling in love, just as the events of the Second World War overtook and then separated them. On […]

Adelaide Chamber Singers Change the Baton after 36 years

25 October, 2021 The Adelaide Chamber Singers today announced that its founding Artistic Director and conductor, Carl Crossin OAM, will be stepping back from his duties at the close of […]

New Chamber Music Collective for Queensland – look out for small hall concert crawls…

You wouldn’t expect a small community hall in the Queensland hinterland township of Eudlo to be the home of fine classical music outside of Brisbane, but this charming country hall […]

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Ensemble Trivium unearths gems from female American composers

Ensemble Trivium highlights 3 very different works by major female American composers It was heartening to see that Rising, Ensemble Trivium’s last concert for 2021, was sold out. It’s hard […]

SYO | Sheer Joy – their largest orchestra ever

Sheer Joy is a recording project from the musicians of Sydney Youth Orchestras. The project demonstrates the orchestra’s strength and resilience and celebrates moments of joyfulness, despite being isolated and […]

Phoenix Collective | 2021 in just 6 weeks

Like countless other musicians across Australia Dan Russell, Artistic Director of the Phoenix Collective Quartet, has faced disappointment after disappointment over the last few months, having had to reschedule the […]

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