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Phoenix Collective Quartet opens an enchanted gateway into Hisaishi’s music

Phoenix Collective Quartet | The Art Music of Joe Hisaishi 17 May, 2026, The Utzon Room | Sydney Opera House NSW As devotees of soirées at the Utzon Room, Sydney […]

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Baroque Without Borders at the Utzon Room a fascinating concert

Utzon Music | From Prague to Tasmania: Baroque Without Borders 10 May, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Helena Zemanová – Violin Julia Fredersdorff – Violin Jane Gower – […]

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Melbourne Classical Quartet’s programme left me wanting more!

Melbourne Classical Quartet | The Classical Flute May 2, 2026, St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, VIC Cameron Jamieson; Meg Cohen, violins; Katie Yap, viola; Rosanne Hunt, cello, with Kim Tan, […]

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Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Spring is truly magnificent

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Mozart’s Spring March 8, 2026, Paintings Room, State Library, Sydney, NSW AHE 2026, the first program for their year, consisted of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Mozart string […]

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Barton & Brodsky – Thrilling. Accessible. Millennial. Sublime.

Brodsky String Quartet & William Barton February 25, 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC The Occasion Midweek, late February in Melbourne — summer in decline. Beware the Ides of March. Around […]

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Utzon Music begins the season in quintessentially Australian style

Utzon Music | The Edge of Zen 1 Feb, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW The Edge of Zen was a meditative musical merger of East and West, modern […]

Superb craft and musicianship from Selby & Friends in Epic Diva

Selby & Friends | Epic Diva November 23, 2025, Turramurra Uniting Church, NSW Johannes Brahms was not at the zenith of his career in 1862 when he composed his 2nd […]

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ASQ celebrates forty years of artistry from Elegy to Ecstasy

Australian String Quartet | Convergence October 21, 2025, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW There’s something that feels just right about hearing a string quartet in The Neilson. The […]

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Takács Quartet shines in Musica Viva’s 80th birthday season

Musica Viva Australia | Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken 18 August, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Takács Quartet Edward Dusinberre violin Harumi Rhodes violin Richard O’Neill viola András Fejér […]

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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 […]

AVÉ concert launches new album of Australian works – immensely enjoyable

AVÉ: Australian Vocal Ensemble | Thought is surrounded by a halo 10 August, 2025, The Neilson, ACO, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW VOICES: Katie Noonan: Soprano and Artistic Director Fiona […]

Nexas Quartet launches new Gershwin album – a hit concert!

Nexas Quartet | Gershwin Album Launch 9 August, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney, NSW Four saxophones sound a bit excessive, but not when you hear them played by Nexas, a quartet […]

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MBO & Craig Hill’s sensitive exploration of the glorious basset clarinet

Craig Hill with the MBO Classical Quartet | Mozart Clarinet Quintet 28 June 2025, St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, VIC Craig Hill, basset horn and basset clarinet; Cameron Jamieson and […]

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A delight to be in the Utzon Room with AHE’s quartets

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Haydn’s Sunrise March 17, 2025, The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director and violin Matthew Greco – violin Karina Schmitz – […]

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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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Phoenix Collective Quartet: An Emotional Journey Through Strings

Phoenix Collective Quartet | Beethoven, Vasks, Daft Punk 16 November, 2024, Hunter Baillie Church, Annandale, NSW Before the first note of the program proper, we were treated to a few […]

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A transcendent performance of Beethoven by Flinders Quartet

Sydney Mozart Society | Flinders Quartet October 23, 2024, The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW MENDELSSOHN Capriccio for string quartet in E minor, Op.81 no.3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat […]

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Orava marks a ten-year milestone with a stunning, fun performance

Orava Quartet | A Dream within a Dream September 20, 2024 Brisbane, QLD Overlooking the Brisbane river, the State Library of Queensland’s Edge auditorium was the perfect setting for an […]

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Phoenix Collective Quartet opens an enchanted gateway into Hisaishi’s music

Phoenix Collective Quartet | The Art Music of Joe Hisaishi 17 May, 2026, The Utzon Room | Sydney Opera House NSW As devotees of soirées at the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House heed, the early bird gets the best seats. Packed house with 20 minutes to go before the accomplished members of the Phoenix Collective Quartet strode onto the stage

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Pepe Newton

Baroque Without Borders at the Utzon Room a fascinating concert

Utzon Music | From Prague to Tasmania: Baroque Without Borders 10 May, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Helena Zemanová – Violin Julia Fredersdorff – Violin Jane Gower – Dulcian Lars Ulrik Mortensen – Harpsichord   At one point during this remarkable Utzon Music recital, harpsichordist Lars Ulrik Mortensen described the repertoire as “a kind of written-out improvisation.” It

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David Hood

Melbourne Classical Quartet’s programme left me wanting more!

Melbourne Classical Quartet | The Classical Flute May 2, 2026, St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, VIC Cameron Jamieson; Meg Cohen, violins; Katie Yap, viola; Rosanne Hunt, cello, with Kim Tan, classical flute   I’ve played piano in St. Stephen’s, previously, so I knew what a pleasant, welcoming space it is: light, airy, some beautiful stained-glass and, not to be overlooked,

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Richard Wong

Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Spring is truly magnificent

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Mozart’s Spring March 8, 2026, Paintings Room, State Library, Sydney, NSW AHE 2026, the first program for their year, consisted of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Mozart string quartets. Here, the AHE performs as a string quartet, whereas in last year’s incarnation, they were a symphony orchestra! Never mind, they are playing Beethoven’s fourth symphony as part of

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Warren Wills

Barton & Brodsky – Thrilling. Accessible. Millennial. Sublime.

Brodsky String Quartet & William Barton February 25, 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC The Occasion Midweek, late February in Melbourne — summer in decline. Beware the Ides of March. Around the corner at Hamer Hall the future beckons with a laser/synthesiser reimagining of the prophetic AI apocalyptic film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But nestled snugly within the extraordinary honeycombed acoustic

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Heidi Hereth

Utzon Music begins the season in quintessentially Australian style

Utzon Music | The Edge of Zen 1 Feb, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW The Edge of Zen was a meditative musical merger of East and West, modern and contemporary, held in the Utzon Room with appropriately serene views of the tranquil harbour in silvery-grey afternoon light. The program was, in the words of curator and recorder virtuoso,

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Tony Burke

Superb craft and musicianship from Selby & Friends in Epic Diva

Selby & Friends | Epic Diva November 23, 2025, Turramurra Uniting Church, NSW Johannes Brahms was not at the zenith of his career in 1862 when he composed his 2nd Piano Quartet. His first Piano Concerto had been so badly received that he had to leave the auditorium after the first movement while his ill-fated attempt to join in the,

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Pepe Newton

ASQ celebrates forty years of artistry from Elegy to Ecstasy

Australian String Quartet | Convergence October 21, 2025, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW There’s something that feels just right about hearing a string quartet in The Neilson. The warm wood panelling, the intimacy of the space, the sense of shared stillness between audience and performers, even from the balcony it feels close. It’s the ideal setting for the

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Alan Holley

Takács Quartet shines in Musica Viva’s 80th birthday season

Musica Viva Australia | Takács Quartet with Angie Milliken 18 August, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Takács Quartet Edward Dusinberre violin Harumi Rhodes  violin Richard O’Neill  viola András Fejér cello with Angie Milliken narrator Program Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809)    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3 ‘The Rider’ (1793)  Cathy MILLIKEN    Sonnet of an Emigrant

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Pepe Newton

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 Station, newly reopened as a cultural venue after decades of dormancy, made a fitting backdrop for Lost Birds, Sydney

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AVÉ concert launches new album of Australian works – immensely enjoyable

AVÉ: Australian Vocal Ensemble | Thought is surrounded by a halo 10 August, 2025, The Neilson, ACO, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW VOICES: Katie Noonan: Soprano and Artistic Director Fiona Campbell: Mezzo-soprano Louis Hurley: Tenor Andrew O’Connor: Bass-baritone PROGRAM: Andrew O’Connor: Thought is Surrounded by a Halo Perry Joyce: My father’s gun Joseph Twist:  Refugee Thomas Luis de Victoria: Heth Misericordiae

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Tony Burke

Nexas Quartet launches new Gershwin album – a hit concert!

Nexas Quartet | Gershwin Album Launch 9 August, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney, NSW Four saxophones sound a bit excessive, but not when you hear them played by Nexas, a quartet which has performed with few changes for over twenty years. Indeed, the sounds were so intertwined and complementary that it sounded just like a classical wind quartet but more engaging.

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MBO & Craig Hill’s sensitive exploration of the glorious basset clarinet

Craig Hill with the MBO Classical Quartet | Mozart Clarinet Quintet 28 June 2025, St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, VIC Craig Hill, basset horn and basset clarinet; Cameron Jamieson and Meg Cohen, violins; Caroline Henbest, viola; Rosanne Hunt, cello Craig Hill’s expertise in historical clarinets covers a wide range of periods and types, but in this concert the focus was

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Alan Holley

A delight to be in the Utzon Room with AHE’s quartets

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Haydn’s Sunrise March 17, 2025, The Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director and violin Matthew Greco – violin Karina Schmitz – viola Daniel Yeadon – cello HAYDN String Quartet Op. 76 No. 4 in B flat major Sunrise BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1 in F major FANNY MENDELSSOHN (HENSEL)

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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 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

Phoenix Collective Quartet: An Emotional Journey Through Strings

Phoenix Collective Quartet | Beethoven, Vasks, Daft Punk 16 November, 2024, Hunter Baillie Church, Annandale, NSW Before the first note of the program proper, we were treated to a few bars preview of Dan Russell’s new violin, crafted by Carlo Antonio Testore. A snippet of The Lark Ascending soared through the room, the high notes shimmering and spine-tingling. Though Russell

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A transcendent performance of Beethoven by Flinders Quartet

Sydney Mozart Society | Flinders Quartet October 23, 2024,  The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW MENDELSSOHN Capriccio for string quartet in E minor, Op.81 no.3  BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op.18 no.6   MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F minor, Op.80   Elizabeth Sellars (violin), Wilma Smith (violin), Helen Ireland (viola), Zoe Knighton (cello)  Travelling to this concert my mind wandered back

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Claire Matthews

Orava marks a ten-year milestone with a stunning, fun performance

Orava Quartet | A Dream within a Dream  September 20, 2024 Brisbane, QLD Overlooking the Brisbane river, the State Library of Queensland’s Edge auditorium was the perfect setting for an evening of chamber music on Friday night. Presented as part of Brisbane Festival, Orava Quartet’s A Dream within a Dream concert gave audiences the chance to unwind before the weekend.  

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