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From your roving “reporter” on the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | 2025 February 6 – 9, Bendigo, VIC I am currently sitting in a cafe writing up my notes for this 4 day event and feeling […]

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Orange Chamber Music Festival – 26 hrs Pass now on sale

Established in 2019 the Orange Chamber Music Festival highlights and celebrates the unique features of the Orange Region by combining classical music with carefully curated cultural experiences, in partnership with […]

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Sydney Chamber Music Festival celebrates local composer with world premiere

Sydney Chamber Music Festival | Head, Heart, Heritage November 9, 2024, Manly Art Gallery, NSW Bridget Bollinger – Artistic Director and flute, Alex Dupressoir – clarinet, Myee Clohessy – Violin, […]

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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ ‘Ode to Joy’ – A Celebration of Musical Revolution and Resilience

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs – Ode to Joy October 26, 2024, Sydney Opera House, NSW A packed house at the Sydney Opera House, with standing room only, bore witness to an […]

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Exhilarating playing begins the Scots’ International Organ Series

Scots’ International Organ Series | Concert 1 Saturday Sept 7, 2024, The Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC The performer Asher Watters-Cowan is a talented Australian organist who teaches music in regional […]

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Standing ovations for Southern Cross Soloists’ inaugural Mountain Showcase

Southern Cross Soloists | Mountain Showcase August 18, 2024 | Shambala Estate, Mt Tamborine, QLD Southern Cross Soloists presented a day of fine chamber music on Sunday, in the natural […]

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Blackheath Chamber Music Festival truly world class

Blackheath Chamber Music Festival | Day Three Sunday April 21, 2024, Phillip’s Hall, Blackheath, NSW What a glorious time to visit the autumnal town of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, […]

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Goldner Variations at Blackheath a hit!

Blackheath Chamber Music Festival | Goldner String Quartet – Beethoven & the Goldner Variations April 19, 2024, Phillips Hall Blackheath, NSW After 30 years the Goldner String Quartet are calling […]

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Cut Paste Play – new musical territories in low-stakes spaces

Cut Paste Play Festival 23-24 March 2024, presented by the music box project, Church Street Studios, Camperdown, Sydney audiences were treated to an mind-bending weekend of new music in the […]

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Music, She Wrote Concert 2 – a masterful meeting of minds on an ocean of contemplation & heart

Music, She Wrote Concert 2 – The Wave in the Mind March 21, 2024, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC Katie Yap, viola/voice/curation – Mindy Meng Wang, guzheng – Helen Svoboda, double […]

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Moirai Ensemble make their debut with Mother Line

Music, She Wrote: Concert 1 Moirai Ensemble | Mother Lines 20th March 2024, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC Music, She Wrote is back for its fourth year, fresh and inventive as […]

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Orange Chamber Music Festival Opens with a bang!

Orange Chamber Music Festival | Folk Fables and Pleasures Thursday March 7 | Kinross Wolaroi School, Orange NSW The opening concert of the Orange Chamber Music Festival on Thursday night […]

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OCMF Gala: A celebration of wonders

Orange Chamber Music Festival | Gala Concert Saturday March 9 | Civic Theatre, Orange, NSW A highlight of this year’s Orange Chamber Music Festival was the Saturday night Gala at […]

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Orange Chamber Music Festival 2024 – WOW!

Orange Chamber Music Festival | March 7 to 10, 2024 Wow, another Orange Chamber Music Festival has finished, the fourth so far, and isn’t it going places, covering not just […]

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New Opera co-created with AI now showing at Casula Powerhouse

Margaret and the Grey Mare | Katy B Plummer + Sally Whitwell Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | FREE Margaret and the Grey Mare is an immersive, multi-channel video installation opera […]

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SYD FEST 24 Bach and the Artists – a delight, with a visual bonus

Sydney Festival: Temperament series | Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Bach and the Artists 27 January, 2024, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay The Sydney festival is presenting an interesting series of […]

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SYD FEST 24 Benjamin Skepper – mesmerising and profound

Sydney Festival: Temperament series | Benjamin Skepper: Praeludium y Fuga remixed 27 January, 2024, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay The Sydney festival is presenting an interesting series of seven […]

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Thrilling opening night of the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival

Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields | Recital 1 January 12, 2024, St Patrick’s Ballarat Program G.F. Handel’s Alexander’s Feast (1736/51) Artists The Alchemy Consort and the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra Directed […]

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Peter Hagen

From your roving “reporter” on the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | 2025 February 6 – 9, Bendigo, VIC I am currently sitting in a cafe writing up my notes for this 4 day event and feeling very satisfied that music in the regions is growing. This festival has brought in international performers as well as extraordinary local performers. There seems to be a philosophy of encouragement

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Pepe Newton

Orange Chamber Music Festival – 26 hrs Pass now on sale

Established in 2019 the Orange Chamber Music Festival highlights and celebrates the unique features of the Orange Region by combining classical music with carefully curated cultural experiences, in partnership with local businesses, organisations and individuals. The Orange Chamber Music Festival is the Autumn opener of Regional NSW, returning for its 5th year from March 6th to the 9th. Setting the

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Chamber Music Festival celebrates local composer with world premiere

Sydney Chamber Music Festival | Head, Heart, Heritage November 9, 2024, Manly Art Gallery, NSW Bridget Bollinger – Artistic Director and flute, Alex Dupressoir – clarinet, Myee Clohessy – Violin, Sally Clarke – viola, Teije Hylkema – cello, Hannah Fraser – mezzo-soprano. The Sydney Chamber Music Festival at Manly Art Gallery delivered an evocative blend of music and nature-inspired works,

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ ‘Ode to Joy’ – A Celebration of Musical Revolution and Resilience

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs – Ode to Joy October 26, 2024, Sydney Opera House, NSW A packed house at the Sydney Opera House, with standing room only, bore witness to an afternoon of musical grandeur and revolutionary spirit as the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Festival Chorus, Sydney Youth Orchestra and members of the Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, led by conductor Elizabeth Scott, took

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Daniel Brace

Exhilarating playing begins the Scots’ International Organ Series

Scots’ International Organ Series | Concert 1 Saturday Sept 7, 2024, The Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC The performer  Asher Watters-Cowan is a talented Australian organist who teaches music in regional and remote communities all over Tropical Far North Queensland and Cape York, who presented a program of German baroque and French modern romantic music on The Rieger Organ at Scots’

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Claire Matthews

Standing ovations for Southern Cross Soloists’ inaugural Mountain Showcase

Southern Cross Soloists | Mountain Showcase August 18, 2024 | Shambala Estate, Mt Tamborine, QLD Southern Cross Soloists presented a day of fine chamber music on Sunday, in the natural beauty of Mount Tamborine. Their Soloists’ Mountain Showcase was a reinvention of their Bangalow Chamber Music Festival, held for 20 years in the quaint town of Bangalow, Northern NSW. The reimagined

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Pepe Newton

Blackheath Chamber Music Festival truly world class

Blackheath Chamber Music Festival | Day Three Sunday April 21, 2024, Phillip’s Hall, Blackheath, NSW What a glorious time to visit the autumnal town of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, there was a brisk chill in the air and a gorgeously red and yellow tone bursting from the street trees. Day three of the festival featured the final of 21

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Pepe Newton

Goldner Variations at Blackheath a hit!

Blackheath Chamber Music Festival | Goldner String Quartet – Beethoven & the Goldner Variations April 19, 2024, Phillips Hall Blackheath, NSW After 30 years the Goldner String Quartet are calling it quits, and unbelievably I had never heard them live in person until this, their final year!  It was a bit more than 30 years ago that I recall the

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Lliane Clarke

Cut Paste Play – new musical territories in low-stakes spaces

Cut Paste Play Festival 23-24 March 2024, presented by the music box project, Church Street Studios, Camperdown,  Sydney audiences were treated to an mind-bending weekend of new music in the Cut Paste Play festival at Church Street Studios presented by the music box project. With sheer commitment, passion and energy, the festival paid homage to the greats while celebrating the

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Music, She Wrote Concert 2 – a masterful meeting of minds on an ocean of contemplation & heart

Music, She Wrote Concert 2 – The Wave in the Mind March 21, 2024, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC Katie Yap, viola/voice/curation – Mindy Meng Wang, guzheng – Helen Svoboda, double bass/voice Music, she wrote – and indeed, Katie Yap, Helen Svoboda and Mindy Meng Wang wrote, sung, and soared.  Presented by local arts community staple 3MBS Melbourne, this integral festival

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Lily Begg

Moirai Ensemble make their debut with Mother Line

Music, She Wrote: Concert 1 Moirai Ensemble | Mother Lines 20th March 2024, Tempo Rubato, Brunswick, VIC Music, She Wrote is back for its fourth year, fresh and inventive as ever under the leadership of Artistic Director Katie Yap. With a focus on the role of women in oral and musical tradition and the importance of memory in passing on

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Jennifer Foong

Orange Chamber Music Festival Opens with a bang!

Orange Chamber Music Festival | Folk Fables and Pleasures Thursday March 7 | Kinross Wolaroi School, Orange NSW The opening concert of the Orange Chamber Music Festival on Thursday night was titled Folk Fables and Pleasures. It certainly was a pleasure to witness world-class young clarinettist Lloyd Van’t Hoff, along with violinist Zoe Friesberg and pianist Vatche Jambazian, in an

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Jennifer Foong

OCMF Gala: A celebration of wonders

Orange Chamber Music Festival | Gala Concert Saturday March 9 | Civic Theatre, Orange, NSW A highlight of this year’s Orange Chamber Music Festival was the Saturday night Gala at the Civic Theatre. It showcased “the universal language of music in a display of sound, colour, and dance”, an eclectic mix of old and new, Australian and overseas, involving the

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Jennifer Foong

Orange Chamber Music Festival 2024 – WOW!

Orange Chamber Music Festival | March 7 to 10, 2024 Wow, another Orange Chamber Music Festival has finished, the fourth so far, and isn’t it going places, covering not just music but the visual arts, performing arts, and food & wine! It combined all that is great about the Orange region over four days, particularly our “deep cultural traits”, as

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Pepe Newton

New Opera co-created with AI now showing at Casula Powerhouse

Margaret and the Grey Mare | Katy B Plummer + Sally Whitwell  Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre | FREE Margaret and the Grey Mare is an immersive, multi-channel video installation opera created by visual artist Katy B Plummer and composer Sally Whitwell with the assistance of a bespoke artificial intelligence. Coder Flora Suen has trained the AI to act as a

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Daniel Kaan

SYD FEST 24 Bach and the Artists – a delight, with a visual bonus

Sydney Festival: Temperament series | Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Bach and the Artists 27 January, 2024, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay The Sydney festival is presenting an interesting series of seven concerts, broadly based around the music of JS Bach. In this, the fifth of these concerts, Paul Dyer and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir presented an all-Bach program

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Daniel Kaan

SYD FEST 24 Benjamin Skepper – mesmerising and profound

Sydney Festival: Temperament series | Benjamin Skepper: Praeludium y Fuga remixed 27 January, 2024, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay The Sydney festival is presenting an interesting series of seven concerts, broadly based around the music of JS Bach. In this, the sixth of these concerts, the Melbourne-born classically trained pianist/cellist Benjamin Skepper presented a performance on piano, electric cello

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Daniel Brace

Thrilling opening night of the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival

Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields | Recital 1 January 12, 2024,  St Patrick’s Ballarat Program G.F. Handel’s Alexander’s Feast (1736/51) Artists The Alchemy Consort and the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra  Directed by Gary Ekkel Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) is a setting of an ode by Newburgh Hamilton by the illustrious G.F Handel. Sung in English, the story revolves around a banquet

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