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Australian Haydn Ensemble | 2026 Season Launch

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” William […]

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Welcome to Salut! Baroque’s 2026 Season

Power, Passion & Politics “Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life […]

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Angelic voices and joyful trumpets – heavenly Bach with Sydney Chamber Choir

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 […]

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Marais Project’s Fantastical Life of Daniel Solander, simply charming

The Marais Project | The Fantastical Life of Daniel Solander November 23, 2025, Rehearsal Studio 1 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, NSW Jenny Eriksson – Artistic Director and viola da gamba […]

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Downright fabulousness for MBO’s 10th anniversary

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Celebrating 10 Years of Melbourne Baroque November2, 2025, Church of All Nations, Carlton, VIC “While music is my field and plow, and serves to give me […]

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SSO’s Cocktail Hour: What a delightfully varied concert!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra I Cocktail Hour: Mozart and Harrison October 22, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Program Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 Harrison: Spitfire Performers […]

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The Brandenburg’s inspired dialogue across centuries, a sheer delight

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Water Music October 11, 2025, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion A weekend that moves on four legs with the Caulfield racing season, and on […]

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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 […]

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Van Diemen’s Band + Ensemble Kaboul’s virtuosic journey across time + cultures

Van Diemen’s Band & Ensemble Kaboul | Where Everything is Music 4 October 2025, Leichhardt Town Hall, NSW Leichhardt Town Hall was packed on a warm Saturday night, an impressive […]

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A Patch of Blue Somewhere – Rubiks Collective’s The Big Idea is absurdly brilliant

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 […]

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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 […]

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SSO Chamber – Great music and wine, who could ask for more?

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Schoenberg & Williams, Radiance and Invention 29 August 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW JUSTIN WILLIAMS: Movement for Woodwind Quintet (2025) CAROLYN HARRIS: flute SHEFALI […]

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MCO’s stunning brilliance and inspiring collegiality on show

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Musette 24 August, 2025 Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Sophie Rowell’s brilliantly-curated programme, on Sunday 24 August at Melbourne Recital Centre, had the MCO touring musical Australia, […]

Moonlite, an Australian true-crime queer love story in oratorio form – first class!

Homophonic! and the Consort of Melbourne | Moonlite 26 July, 2025, Fitzroy Town Hall, VIC Based on The Moonlite Papers, the letters and statements of Andrew George Scott, which were […]

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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 […]

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Kew Philharmonic Chamber Choir’s glorious and heavenly Charpentier

Written in 1699, the Missa Assumpta est Maria is Charpentier at the height of his powers, musically, expressively and technically. It’s also beautifully French with all the Baroque trimmings you […]

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A satisfying and energetic performance from SSO Fellows

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows | Bach, Stravinsky and Spohr 11 April 2025, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW PROGRAM JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G Major, BWV 1048 Stravinsky: Concerto […]

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Apeiron brings Canberra to life with Vaughan, Lane and a touch of d’amore

Apeiron Baroque | Pluckers and Scratchers 23 March 2025, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, ACT PROGRAM BECKER, Dietrich (1623–1679) – Sonata a2 JARZEBSKI, Adam (1590–1649) – Concerto Secundo FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo (1583–1643) […]

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Pepe Newton

Australian Haydn Ensemble | 2026 Season Launch

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” William Blake Auguries of Innocence, The Pickering Manuscript circa 1803 “In 2026 we have an array of beautiful music to enjoy, with works by Haydn (of course!), Mozart, Beethoven and some exciting and

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Welcome to Salut! Baroque’s 2026 Season

Power, Passion & Politics “Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.” Plato, The Republic, 375BC Throughout history, music has absorbed, dazzled and entertained us. We swoon at its beauty, laugh at its humour and dance to its rhythms. It can

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Heidi Hereth

Angelic voices and joyful trumpets – heavenly Bach with Sydney Chamber Choir

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 Collective Orchestra and renowned soloists, Sarah Macliver (soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (alto), Andrew Goodwin (tenor) and David

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Alan Holley

Marais Project’s Fantastical Life of Daniel Solander, simply charming

The Marais Project | The Fantastical Life of Daniel Solander  November 23, 2025,  Rehearsal Studio 1 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, NSW Jenny Eriksson – Artistic Director and viola da gamba Tommie Andersson – lute and guitar Susie Bishop – soprano and violin A little over 25 years ago I read the totally absorbing book, Nature’s Argonaut – Daniel Solander 1733-1782

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Daniel Brace

Downright fabulousness for MBO’s 10th anniversary

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | Celebrating 10 Years of Melbourne Baroque November2, 2025, Church of All Nations, Carlton, VIC “While music is my field and plow, and serves to give me many of my keenest pleasures, I have lately attached myself to a new suitor, namely the love of flowers.” (1742) – Georg Phillip Telemann  The stage was set with two

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Daniel Kaan

SSO’s Cocktail Hour: What a delightfully varied concert!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra I Cocktail Hour: Mozart and Harrison October 22, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Program Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581 Harrison: Spitfire Performers Alexander Morris, clarinet Lerida Delbridge, violin Sophie Cole, violin Justin Williams, viola Timothy Nankervis, cello Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet is a quintessential classical work. Performing it has both advantages and disadvantages.

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Warren Wills

The Brandenburg’s inspired dialogue across centuries, a sheer delight

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Water Music October 11, 2025, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne, VIC The Occasion A weekend that moves on four legs with the Caulfield racing season, and on two with the Melbourne Marathon. Across the city, communities glow with the Indian Diwali Festival of Lights and the Chinese Moon Cake Festival — a celebration of movement, light, and shared humanity. The Venue

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Heidi Hereth

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 Magnificals Chamber Orchestra perform a musical soirée. The program included many works with piano, featuring a piano concerto

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Pepe Newton

Van Diemen’s Band + Ensemble Kaboul’s virtuosic journey across time + cultures

Van Diemen’s Band & Ensemble Kaboul | Where Everything is Music  4 October 2025, Leichhardt Town Hall, NSW Leichhardt Town Hall was packed on a warm Saturday night, an impressive turnout for a program that promised something genuinely different. Where Everything is Music, the collaboration between Van Diemen’s Band and Ensemble Kaboul, offered a journey through time and across cultures. From

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Pepe Newton

A Patch of Blue Somewhere – Rubiks Collective’s The Big Idea is absurdly brilliant

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 Raineri and mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean From the very first beat, literally, drama unfolded in this intimate space at ACO

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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 – Hayden Barrington Bass – Andrew O’Connor Percussion – Nicki Johnson It’s not often you go to a choral concert and leave thinking

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Daniel Kaan

SSO Chamber – Great music and wine, who could ask for more?

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Schoenberg & Williams, Radiance and Invention 29 August 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW JUSTIN WILLIAMS: Movement for Woodwind Quintet (2025) CAROLYN HARRIS: flute SHEFALI PRYOR: oboe OLLI LEPPÄNIEMI: clarinet MATTHEW WILKIE: bassoon EUAN HARVEY: horn ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Transfigured Night, Op.4 (1899) HARRY BENNETTS: violin VICTORIA BIHUN: violin ROSEMARY CURTIN: viola JUSTIN WILLIAMS: viola TIMOTHY

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David Hood

MCO’s stunning brilliance and inspiring collegiality on show

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Musette 24 August, 2025 Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Sophie Rowell’s brilliantly-curated programme, on Sunday 24 August at Melbourne Recital Centre, had the MCO touring musical Australia, Austria, France and Italy. Cellist Li-Wei Qin featured in Haydn’s C major Concerto which, giving the ‘big-boys’ (Dvorak, Elgar, etc.) a head start, was rediscovered only in 1961. Haydn, very

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Daniel Brace

Moonlite, an Australian true-crime queer love story in oratorio form – first class!

Homophonic! and the Consort of Melbourne | Moonlite 26 July, 2025, Fitzroy Town Hall, VIC Based on The Moonlite Papers, the letters and statements of Andrew George Scott, which were written on death row in the late 19th century in Sydney’s Darlinghurst Goal and are now held in the archives of the National Library of Australia, ‘Moonlite’ an oratorio contains

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Pepe Newton

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 Harvey – French horn Emily Granger – Harp Jess Ciampa – Percussion What an extraordinary gift

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Daniel Brace

Kew Philharmonic Chamber Choir’s glorious and heavenly Charpentier

Written in 1699, the Missa Assumpta est Maria is Charpentier at the height of his powers, musically, expressively and technically. It’s also beautifully French with all the Baroque trimmings you could wish for, elegant, ornamented, and fluid, moving effortlessly through multiple rhythms and time signatures.  Such a work is a momentous challenge for the performers, and that challenge was accepted

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Daniel Kaan

A satisfying and energetic performance from SSO Fellows

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows | Bach, Stravinsky and Spohr 11 April 2025, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW PROGRAM JS Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3  in G Major, BWV 1048 Stravinsky:  Concerto in E flat “Dumbarton Oaks ” Monteverdi arr. Mase: Four Madrigals Spohr: Nonet  in F major, Op.31 ARTISTS Conductor: Timothy Constable Musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra 2025 Sydney Symphony Fellows

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Pepe Newton

Apeiron brings Canberra to life with Vaughan, Lane and a touch of d’amore

Apeiron Baroque | Pluckers and Scratchers 23 March 2025, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, ACT PROGRAM BECKER, Dietrich (1623–1679) – Sonata a2 JARZEBSKI, Adam (1590–1649) – Concerto Secundo FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo (1583–1643) – Toccate Tertii Toni from Codex Chigi JENKINS, John (1592–1678) – “Aria” a2 JONES, Richard (c1680–1744) – Sonata #4 from Chamber Airs Op. 2 LAWES, William (1602–1645) – Harp Consorts

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