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Bach Akademie Australia at SYD FEST 24, a truly impeccable lineup

Bach Akademie Australia | JS Bach: A Life in Music 23 January, 2024, ACO Pier2/3 Sydney Bach Akademie Australia Director Madeleine Easton Susannah Lawergren – soprano Hannah Fraser – alto […]

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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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Carols in the Cathedral – the gift that kept on giving!

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir | Carols in the Cathedral December 17, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne Carols in the Cathedral was the concert gift that just kept giving. Favourite carols were […]

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A rhapsodic evening with Andrea Lam and the MSO

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody November 30, 2023, Hamer Hall, Melbourne While Bacewicz is still an unfamiliar name to many, recent years have seen this forgotten Polish composer experience […]

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Avan Yu with WSO – a true virtuoso!

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Virtuoso November 25, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The concert given by the WSO at Chatswood Concourse had a large audience attracted by a very popular […]

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Thunderous applause for MSO

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Mozart’s Final Symphonies November 25, 2023, Hamer Hall The Melbourne Symphony under Maestro Jamie Martín presented Mozart’s Final Symphonies, that is, Symphony No. 39, 40 and […]

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Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ exciting 2024!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | 2024 Concert Season Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has announced its thrilling 2024 Concert Season, promising “something for everyone” across an inspirational year of performances, presented in fresh […]

KPO and Beethoven’s powerful, emphatic 5th Symphony

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Beethoven’s 5th November 19, 2023, St Ives Uniting Church. NSW What an enticing programme by the KPO at St Ives Uniting Church which, not surprisingly, was […]

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CD Review: Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Heavenly Mozart

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Heavenly Mozart CD Released November 10, 2023 The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Heavenly Mozart recording features two of Mozart’s supremely popular orchestral pieces […]

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So much to enjoy in MSO’s Spring Gala

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Spring Gala: Symphonic Tales November 11, 2023, Hamer Hall, Melbourne You could not imagine a more magical evening than The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No […]

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Anne-Sophie Mutter and SSO, a truly memorable musical experience

SSO | Anne-Sophie Mutter and the music of John Williams 9 November 2023, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Sydney Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Simone Young Violin: Anne-Sophie Mutter PROGRAM: Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo – […]

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Camerata – Queenland’s Chamber Orchestra launches 2024

“Every Camerata concert I have attended has left me in wonder.” – Caroline B, audience member Experience the wonder and joy that is Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra across four […]

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MCO + Lior World Premiere

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra unveil an exciting new collaboration with singer/songwriter Lior and composer Ade Vincent ‘To Be Human’ is an extraordinary new song cycle commissioned by the MCO, and performed […]

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Yap’s Chocolate Viola a feast for the ears and the soul

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | The Chocolate Viola Performance 15 Oct, 2023 – reviewed from the live recording I’m so grateful that over the past few years we have really gotten […]

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Yerim Lee and Daniel Rojas leave WSO audience spellbound

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Valkyries and Villains October 15, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood A fantastically original programme was put together by conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith, together with, as she told us, […]

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A memorable afternoon with North Sydney Symphony

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Concert 3 September 24, 2023, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney The combination of Verbrugghen Hall with its great acoustics and the talented North Sydney Symphony Orchestra proved […]

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The Beecroft Orchestra, bringing out the best

The Beecroft Orchestra | Spring Gala September 17, 2023, Cheltenham Girls’ High School, NSW In the light-filled spacious new Cheltenham Girls’ High School hall on a hot Sunday afternoon, many […]

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Arthouse Cinema Meets Chamber Music – Camerata Cinematheque 

Camerata | Cinematheque September 15, 2023, QPAC, Brisbane Camerata turned the QPAC concert hall into their own arthouse cinema on Friday night for a special evening of bespoke films and […]

Bach Akademie Australia at SYD FEST 24, a truly impeccable lineup

Bach Akademie Australia | JS Bach: A Life in Music 23 January, 2024, ACO Pier2/3 Sydney Bach Akademie Australia Director Madeleine Easton Susannah Lawergren – soprano Hannah Fraser – alto Richard Butler – tenor Christopher Richardson – bass PROGRAM JS Bach Cantata BWV 106 ‘Actus Tragicus’ Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major BWV 1050 Motet ‘Lobet den Herrn’ BWV 230

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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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Daniel Brace

Carols in the Cathedral – the gift that kept on giving!

Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir | Carols in the Cathedral  December 17, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne Carols in the Cathedral was the concert gift that just kept giving. Favourite carols were enhanced with exciting introductions, wild orchestrations and choral ‘descants’  except not just in the top line, in every part. Each time we reached a new ‘wow’ moment, another was waiting

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A rhapsodic evening with Andrea Lam and the MSO

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody  November 30, 2023, Hamer Hall, Melbourne While Bacewicz is still an unfamiliar name to many, recent years have seen this forgotten Polish composer experience a well-deserved resurgence. Conducted by Jaime Martín, the MSO performed her Overture on Thursday night. Not only was it an energising concert opener, but a pertinent introduction to a program

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Avan Yu with WSO – a true virtuoso!

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Virtuoso November 25, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The concert given by the WSO at Chatswood Concourse had a large audience attracted by a very popular and well thought out program. Star of the show was Avan Yu. Now resident in Berlin, the Canadian Avan won the coveted first prize in the 2012 Sydney Piano Competition

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Daniel Brace

Thunderous applause for MSO

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Mozart’s Final Symphonies November 25, 2023, Hamer Hall The Melbourne Symphony under Maestro Jamie Martín presented Mozart’s Final Symphonies, that is, Symphony No. 39, 40 and 41, otherwise known as Jupiter. There was definitely magic in the music, reflected by the thunderous applause that followed each symphony and at the conclusion of the concert.  Symphony No.

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ exciting 2024!

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | 2024 Concert Season Sydney Philharmonia Choirs has announced its thrilling 2024 Concert Season, promising “something for everyone” across an inspirational year of performances, presented in fresh formats across a range of city venues. In the words of Artistic and Music Director Brett Weymark, “music is needed now, more than ever” and in his program for Sydney

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Tony Burke

KPO and Beethoven’s powerful, emphatic 5th Symphony

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Beethoven’s 5th November 19, 2023, St Ives Uniting Church. NSW What an enticing programme by the KPO at St Ives Uniting Church which, not surprisingly, was full to the brim. The opening overture, Rossini’s Barber of Seville showed the composer’s flair with variety of themes and his famous prolonged crescendos. Rossini’s overtures were more numerous and

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Jane Downer

CD Review: Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Heavenly Mozart

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Heavenly Mozart CD Released November 10, 2023 The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Heavenly Mozart recording features two of Mozart’s supremely popular orchestral pieces – his Piano Concerto in A major no. 23 and the outstanding Symphony in C major no. 41. Taking an historically informed approach to performance, the orchestra purposes to cast

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Daniel Brace

So much to enjoy in MSO’s Spring Gala

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra  | Spring Gala: Symphonic Tales  November 11, 2023, Hamer Hall, Melbourne You could not imagine a more magical evening than The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 and the Scheherazade Suite by Rimsky-Korsakov. These works need no introduction and have sparked imaginations of all ages and romances of all kinds.  The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by

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Anne-Sophie Mutter and SSO, a truly memorable musical experience

SSO | Anne-Sophie Mutter and the music of John Williams 9 November 2023, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Sydney Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Simone Young Violin: Anne-Sophie Mutter PROGRAM: Bernard Herrmann: Vertigo – Suite (1958) John Williams: Violin Concerto No.2 (2021) Nino Rota: The Leopard – Suite (1963) Nigel Westlake: Flying Dream – Suite for Symphony Orchestra (2015) John Williams: The Long Goodbye (1973) John Williams: Harry Potter and the

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Pepe Newton

Camerata – Queenland’s Chamber Orchestra launches 2024

“Every Camerata concert I have attended has left me in wonder.”  – Caroline B, audience member  Experience the wonder and joy that is Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra across four  mainstage concerts, a regional Queensland tour, and two seasons with Queensland Ballet as their Live Music Partner, with a recital series yet to be announced.   February’s opening concert sees the

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Pepe Newton

MCO + Lior World Premiere

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra unveil an exciting new collaboration with singer/songwriter Lior and composer Ade Vincent ‘To Be Human’ is an extraordinary new song cycle commissioned by the MCO, and performed with Lior as part of the Of People and Song concert. ‘To Be Human’ is a fresh contemporary direction for the MCO under the new artistic director, Sophie Rowell. “Together

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Daniel Brace

Yap’s Chocolate Viola a feast for the ears and the soul

Melbourne Baroque Orchestra | The Chocolate Viola Performance 15 Oct, 2023 – reviewed from the live recording I’m so grateful that over the past few years we have really gotten used to enjoying live music both in the concert venue and also at home, thanks to good quality live streaming and recording. But in this case, I think the live

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Tony Burke

Yerim Lee and Daniel Rojas leave WSO audience spellbound

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Valkyries and Villains October 15, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood A fantastically original programme was put together by conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith, together with, as she told us, Nicholas Milton. In fact the effervescent Sarah kept us full informed about the widely varied music. As suggested by the title, Wagner formed the framework of the concert. I never

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Tony Burke

A memorable afternoon with North Sydney Symphony

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Concert 3 September 24, 2023, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney The combination of Verbrugghen Hall with its great acoustics and the talented North Sydney Symphony Orchestra proved serendipitous to say the least with a beautifully balanced program. As so often happens, Mussorgsky never got to hear his Night on the Bare Mountain. He thought of it as

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The Beecroft Orchestra, bringing out the best

The Beecroft Orchestra | Spring Gala September 17, 2023, Cheltenham Girls’ High School, NSW In the light-filled spacious new Cheltenham Girls’ High School hall on a hot Sunday afternoon, many members of the local community enjoyed the Spring Gala held by Beecroft Orchestra, an amateur orchestra that provides opportunities for musicians to make music together and for young soloists, composers,

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Claire Matthews

Arthouse Cinema Meets Chamber Music – Camerata Cinematheque 

Camerata | Cinematheque September 15, 2023, QPAC, Brisbane Camerata turned the QPAC concert hall into their own arthouse cinema on Friday night for a special evening of bespoke films and chamber music.  Featuring specially commissioned short films by Brisbane filmmaker Anthony Lucas, this concert was spooky, suspenseful, surreal and humorous.  Camerata opened the concert with Greig’s Holberg Suite. This lively

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