Rubiks Collective | The Big Idea 26 September 2025, ACO on the Pier – The Studio, Sydney, NSW by Matthew Shlomowitz & Vid Simoniti | World Premiere Artists: flautist Tamara Kohler, percussionist Kaylie Melville, cellist/bassist Gemma Kneale, guest pianist Alex...
Articles + Reviews By Pepe Newton
From Solfège to Swingle – The Song Company at their eclectic best
The Song Company | Odd Couples Pairings 20 September, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney NSW Guest Director: Huw Belling Soprano – Susannah Lawergren, Amy Moore (Co-Artistic Director) Mezzo-soprano – Jessica O’Donoghue (Co-Artistic Director) Tenor – Timothy Reynolds Baritone –...
Exile and Empire, Then and Now: The Cooperative’s Nabucco
The Cooperative | Verdi’s Nabucco 30 August 2025, Pitt Street Uniting Church, Sydney, NSW Conductor: Toby Wong Director: Menila Moineaux Cast Nabucco: Tristan Entwistle Abigaille: Livia Brash Young Abigaille: Violet Rose Olds Zaccaria: Bernard Leong‑Lokman Fenena:...
New light on the Requiem – Gordon Kerry premieres with ACC
Australian Chamber Choir | Renaissance Requiem 17 August 2025, streamed from Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park, VIC In Missa pro defunctis, composer Gordon Kerry gently rewrites the Requiem tradition, not by burning it down, but by opening windows to let more...
Sun and Grigoryan – dazzling virtuosity meets pulse and fire
Utzon Music | Emily Sun & Slava Grigoryan 17 August 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Today we witnessed the start of a musical partnership that feels like it’s been going for years, such was the spell cast by violinist Emily Sun and guitarist Slava Grigoryan...
Sydney Philharmonia’s Lost Birds soar inside White Bay Power Station
Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers | Lost Birds 16 August 2025, White Bay Power Station, NSW It’s not every day you find yourself sipping coffee inside the belly of a decommissioned coal-fired relic. The towering, echoing and deliciously grungy White Bay Power...
ABO + Circa = music and movement of the highest order
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Circa & The Art of Fugue 13 August 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Where do you look, when everything matters? That was the question circling in my head from the very first Contrapunctus of this astonishing collaboration...
Sjaella sparkle in their Sydney Opera House debut
Utzon Music | Sjaella 13 July 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW With Sydney Harbour glittering through the Utzon Room’s glass wall and Fort Denison posing quietly in the background, the stage was perfectly set for a performance that flitted and fluttered like...
Rather civilised indeed! Operantics brings Austen’s drawing room to life
Operantics | No Charm Equal – Music From Jane Austen’s Drawing Room 11 July 2025 | Mosman Art Gallery, NSW It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in want of refinement must be in want of music. And so it was that a small, well-appointed audience gathered...
Sydney Chamber Choir – Five Composers, Fifty Years, One Word: Love
Sydney Chamber Choir | 50th Anniversary Gala July 5, 2025 City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir Sam Allchurch - Conductor Brooke Window - Soprano Richard Butler - Tenor Nicola Bell - Oboe/Cor anglais Richard Shaw - Clarinet Andrew Barnes - Bassoon Euan...











