Chamber Groups

Rapturous applause for Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Viennese Vogue March 17, 2023, The Neilson, Walsh Bay On a very hot (38ºC) evening it was a pleasure to step into the cool […]

Friday Music Series in Macquarie Street a continuing joy

St Stephen’s Friday Music | Sirius Chamber Ensemble March 17, 2023, St Stephen’s, Sydney Melissa Coleman – flute Ian Sykes – clarinet Mark Quarmby – piano The surprise at the […]

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The Song Company, in a word – ethereal

The Song Company | Songs Under the Southern Cross March 17, 2023, The Neilson, Walsh Bay In her program notes for Songs Under the Southern Cross Guest Director Amy Moore […]

Orange Chamber Music Festival – programming nothing short of fantastic!

Orange Chamber Music Festival 2023 March 9 to 12, 2023 | Orange, NSW It was a nostalgic experience driving to the Central West of NSW as I was a regular […]

Camerata pulls on our heartstrings

Camerata | Heartstrings Saturday February 25, QPAC, Brisbane Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presented a romantic evening of chamber music on Saturday night in the QPAC concert hall. Heartstrings was […]

Ensemble Offspring’s exhilarating brand of living new music up close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens 1 Sunday February 26, 2023, A home in Alexandria Back in 2020 Ensemble Offspring got creative, rather than just sitting around waiting for venues to […]

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s String Quartet, a generous sonorous whole

Australian Haydn Ensemble String Quartet | Haydn’s Sun and Mendelssohn’s Stars February 19, 2023, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Skye McIntosh, violin Matthew Greco, violin Karina Schmitz, viola Daniel Yeadon, […]

Salut! A spoonful of Baroque on a Sunday afternoon

Salut! Baroque | Medicinal Music Sunday 20 November, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Reflecting on the uncertainty and chaos of the last two years, where the concept of time warped and […]

Camerata and Lior – not your average classical concert!

Camerata and Lior | Compassion Friday Sept 2, 2022, QPAC Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presented their Compassion concert in collaboration with singer-songwriter Lior Attar on Friday night at QPAC. […]

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra – Sweet, rich, mellow, like Viennese chocolate

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Tempestuous Skies August 24. 2022, City Recital Hall We were pleased that the skies were NOT tempestuous when we made our way to the […]

Salut! Baroque – Music like this sets us free

Salut! Baroque | The New World Sunday 14 Aug, 2022, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Artists: Susannah Lawergren – Soprano Sally Melhuish & Hans-Dieter Michatz – Recorder Stan Kornel, Bridgitte Holden – […]

Australian Haydn Ensemble brings symphonies into my sitting room

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Beethoven’s Eroica Mon 8 August, 2022 | ADCH (live at City Recital Hall) The pandemic was great for one thing – being able to watch a […]

Ensemble Offspring bend time and rhythm in all their glory

Ensemble Offspring | Time as Revelator Sat 16 July, 2022 | Carriageworks ‘Twas a brisk Winter’s evening in Sydney, but this did not curb the enthusiasm of the full house […]

The virtuosic fervour of Van Diemen’s Band

Van Diemen’s Band – Bach Concertos Thursday 30th June 2022, ADCH livestream – Palais Theatre Franklin, Tasmania A newly purchased harpsichord, hand-crafted from the Spanish workshop of Titus Crijnen was the […]

The Art of Good Conversation

Bach Akademie Australia | The Weapons of Rhetoric Sunday 12 June, Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood A wise choice was made to change our tickets for the sunny Sunday afternoon […]

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The Muses’ Delight – beauty with an inner layer of complexity

The Muses’ Delight | Messengers for Elegant Society Wednesday, 25 May, 2022, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and The Muses’ Delight The Muses’ Delight […]

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Secret chamber music with lusty gusto

Australian Chamber Choir | Secret Chamber May 22, 2022, Art Gallery of NSW On a cool and damp Sunday evening, it was a pleasure to enter the Art Gallery of […]

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Agata’s Cantata a heavenly gem

Australian Chamber Choir Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agata’s Cantata Live streamed from the Scots’ Church, Melbourne on 7 May, 2022 and available on demand at access.auschoir.org Vivaldi’s well-known Gloria is one of my […]

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Heidi Hereth

Rapturous applause for Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Viennese Vogue March 17, 2023, The Neilson, Walsh Bay On a very hot (38ºC) evening it was a pleasure to step into the cool new home of the ACO – The Neilson, on Pier2/3, Walsh Bay. It was the perfect space for the Viennese chamber music played by members of the historically informed Australian

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Alan Holley

Friday Music Series in Macquarie Street a continuing joy

St Stephen’s Friday Music | Sirius Chamber Ensemble March 17, 2023, St Stephen’s, Sydney Melissa Coleman – flute Ian Sykes – clarinet Mark Quarmby – piano The surprise at the Friday Recital this week was the appearance of the director of the Series, Mark Quarmby, as guest pianist replacing an indisposed Claire Howard Race. The whole program had to be

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Pepe Newton

The Song Company, in a word – ethereal

The Song Company | Songs Under the Southern Cross March 17, 2023, The Neilson, Walsh Bay In her program notes for Songs Under the Southern Cross Guest Director Amy Moore describes The Song Company as “an energetic and engaging group of musicians with a passion for storytelling through the transformative beauty of the human voice,” hear hear Amy, I could

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Tony Burke

Orange Chamber Music Festival – programming nothing short of fantastic!

Orange Chamber Music Festival 2023 March 9 to 12, 2023 | Orange, NSW It was a nostalgic experience driving to the Central West of NSW as I was a regular at the Mudgee Music Festival for 20 years. The two festivals are quite different however with the Orange Chamber Music Festival being spread out over many venues and, at least

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Claire Matthews

Camerata pulls on our heartstrings

Camerata | Heartstrings Saturday February 25, QPAC, Brisbane Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presented a romantic evening of chamber music on Saturday night in the QPAC concert hall.  Heartstrings was a fitting title for a program full of warmth and passion that really tugged on our heartstrings. It brought together classical and contemporary works for a thoroughly enjoyable evening.  The

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring’s exhilarating brand of living new music up close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens 1 Sunday February 26, 2023,  A home in Alexandria Back in 2020 Ensemble Offspring got creative, rather than just sitting around waiting for venues to get back to normal they created a series of outdoor events starting with ‘Ah Tempe!’, a musical walking tour of an inner Sydney suburb, and in 2022 ‘Avant Gardens’ was

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Daniel Kaan

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s String Quartet, a generous sonorous whole

Australian Haydn Ensemble String Quartet | Haydn’s Sun and Mendelssohn’s Stars February 19, 2023, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House Skye McIntosh, violin Matthew Greco, violin Karina Schmitz, viola Daniel Yeadon, cello Aside from the heavenly bodies of the title, the unifying theme of this concert is the fugue. As a foretaste from the master, the AHE Quartet played the first

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Simon Hirtzel

Salut! A spoonful of Baroque on a Sunday afternoon

Salut! Baroque | Medicinal Music Sunday 20 November, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Reflecting on the uncertainty and chaos of the last two years, where the concept of time warped and twisted until it became elastic and unpredictable, it was reassuring — despite yet another Covid wave and a fully masked audience — to step into the warm afternoon light of

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Claire Matthews

Camerata and Lior – not your average classical concert!

Camerata and Lior | Compassion Friday Sept 2, 2022, QPAC Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra presented their Compassion concert in collaboration with singer-songwriter Lior Attar on Friday night at QPAC. After two years of cancellations due to covid, it was great to finally experience it. Presented as part of Brisbane Festival, Compassion was not your average classical concert. It skipped

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Heidi Hereth

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra – Sweet, rich, mellow, like Viennese chocolate

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Tempestuous Skies August 24. 2022, City Recital Hall We were pleased that the skies were NOT tempestuous when we made our way to the City Recital Hall to experience Tempestuous Skies with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. This all-Mozart program was superbly played mainly on 19th century instruments or copies thereof in the

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Ron Ringer

Salut! Baroque – Music like this sets us free

Salut! Baroque | The New World Sunday 14 Aug, 2022, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Artists: Susannah Lawergren – Soprano Sally Melhuish & Hans-Dieter Michatz  – Recorder Stan Kornel, Bridgitte Holden – Baroque Violin; John Ma – Baroque Viola Tim Blomfield – Bass Violin Simon Martyn-Ellis – Theorbo George Wills – Guitar Jack Peggie – Percussion Monika Kornel – Harpsichord   Sunday’s

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Jacqui Smith

Australian Haydn Ensemble brings symphonies into my sitting room

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Beethoven’s Eroica Mon 8 August, 2022 | ADCH (live at City Recital Hall) The pandemic was great for one thing – being able to watch a beautiful concert in the comfort and warmth of one’s home when the sniffles return. Thanks Australian Digital Concert Hall for this last minute option B for those under the weather.

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Jacqui Smith

Ensemble Offspring bend time and rhythm in all their glory

Ensemble Offspring | Time as Revelator Sat 16 July, 2022 | Carriageworks ‘Twas a brisk Winter’s evening in Sydney, but this did not curb the enthusiasm of the full house for Ensemble Offspring’s latest large-scale performance, in partnership with Carriageworks. Although our party was halved, the tickets were snapped up by an eager waiting list and we were warmly welcomed

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Jane Downer

The virtuosic fervour of Van Diemen’s Band

Van Diemen’s Band – Bach Concertos Thursday 30th June 2022, ADCH livestream – Palais Theatre Franklin, Tasmania A newly purchased harpsichord, hand-crafted from the Spanish workshop of Titus Crijnen was the centrepiece of the Bach Concertos programme given by Van Diemen’s Band at the historic Palais Theatre Franklin in Tasmania’s Huon Valley, streamed live through the Australian Digital Concert Hall. Formed

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Jacqui Smith

The Art of Good Conversation

Bach Akademie Australia | The Weapons of Rhetoric Sunday 12 June, Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood A wise choice was made to change our tickets for the sunny Sunday afternoon concert in a previously unknown church in Chatswood. Bach always sounds better in a church, and Our Lady of Dolours was exceptional. We sat under the awesome dome with the

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The Muses’ Delight – beauty with an inner layer of complexity

The Muses’ Delight | Messengers for Elegant Society Wednesday, 25 May, 2022, Primrose Potter Salon, Melbourne Recital Centre Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre and The Muses’ Delight The Muses’ Delight (Meredith Beardmore – flute, Lizzy Welsh – violin, Edwina Cordingley – violoncello, and Donald Nicolson – harpsichord) eloquently describe themselves as “musical explorers who open a window to the past,

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Secret chamber music with lusty gusto

Australian Chamber Choir | Secret Chamber May 22, 2022, Art Gallery of NSW On a cool and damp Sunday evening, it was a pleasure to enter the Art Gallery of NSW to hear the Australian Chamber Choir. The theme and title of this concert was “Secret Chamber”, performed in the not so secret entrance court of the Art Gallery of

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Agata’s Cantata a heavenly gem

Australian Chamber Choir Vivaldi’s Gloria, Agata’s Cantata Live streamed from the Scots’ Church, Melbourne on 7 May, 2022 and available on demand at access.auschoir.org Vivaldi’s well-known Gloria is one of my favourite choral works to sing. Joyful and exuberant it’s my regular go to for a quick pick-me-up. As soon as I hear that blasting trumpet fanfare-like opening it puts a

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