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Jenny Duck-Chong + Jo Allan = Delightful.

Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano + Jo Allan piano | Recital 18 April, 2026, St John’s Darlinghurst, NSW Two of Sydney’s cultural warriors for the ‘new’ Jenny Duck-Chong and Jo Allan […]

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Luminescence’s Tenebrae II: when the choir sang, the magic began

Luminescence Chamber Singers | Gesualdo Tenebrae II Thursday, 19 April, The Neilson Theatre, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW The venue was wharf 2, where the ACO (Australian Chamber Orchestra) have […]

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Duo de Graaf Connie bring sparkling Art Song to the intimate Athenaeum Library

Christelise de Graaf and Meredith Connie | Splendid: Art Songs through the Ages 13 March, 2026, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne VIC The Melbourne Atheneum Library was treated to a beautiful […]

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Australia Ensemble UNSW’s Soldier’s Tale nothing less than sublime

Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 1 March 14, 2026, University of NSW, NSW To hear a cleverly inspired solo actor play is a privilege – when it is accompanied by […]

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Ensemble Offspring’s 2026 opener – Epic, Up Close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Summer March 1, 2026, Glebe, NSW Ensemble Offspring opens its 2026 season not in a concert hall but in a generous supporter’s living room. The […]

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A scintillating and genre-defying performance from Roomful of Teeth

Roomful of Teeth | Voices beyond borders 11 February 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC The Occasion Such joy as heading to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday night in the midst of […]

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ACO’s Cocteau’s Circle – Encore Chloe Lankshear!

Australia Chamber Orchestra | Cocteau’s Circle November 17, 2025, Melbourne Recital Hall The Occasion A Monday night in the inventive and exploratory hands of Richard Tognetti and the ingenious ACO, […]

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Music for Medicine’25, an inspiring evening of generous artistry

Music for Medicine ’25 28 August, 2025, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW Nearly 600 people gathered at Wollongong Town Hall for a concert, raising over $20,000 in support of Médecins Sans […]

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Sara Macliver dazzling with SSO under Stephen Layton

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stephen Layton conducts Bach Mozart & Handel 21 August 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW PROGRAM: JS BACH Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV51 MOZART Exsultate, jubilate HANDEL Music […]

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Soprano Amanda Hargreaves takes out the 2025 RMP Aria Award

The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic | Aria Awards 16 August, 2025 | The Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria Awards celebrate emerging singers performing music from the oratorio genre […]

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 […]

Sjaella sparkle in their Sydney Opera House debut

Utzon Music | Sjaella 13 July 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW With Sydney Harbour glittering through the Utzon Room’s glass wall and Fort Denison posing quietly in the […]

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High praise for The Song Company + Eamonn Dougan’s programming

The Song Company | Love’s Four Seasons 15 June 2025, Blackheath Uniting Church, NSW Eamonn Dougan’s Love’s Four Seasons is the kind of program that goes beyond simply exploring music, […]

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The Class of ’85 showcases BAA’s baroque brilliance

Bach Akademie Australia | Class of ’85 30 May 2025, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW They say greatness is born, not made, but 1685 might have been an exception. Three […]

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Musica Viva’s Hollywood Songbook shows astonishing ensemble mastery

Musica Viva | Hollywood Songbook 8 May, 2025, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, QLD I confess I’ve attended many, many worthy Musica Viva concerts, but I’ve never been to one where […]

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Hats off to emerging musicians in Art Songs at the Utzon Room

Shaumet Music | Art Songs 26 April 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Artists Soprano – Camilla Wright Tenor – Daniel Verschuer Soprano – Xiaoxu Aleta Shang Repetiteur – […]

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Sydney Philharmonia breathes new life into Bach

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Mendelssohn Version) 17 April 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW Performers Elizabeth Scott – Conductor Penelope Mills – Soprano Emily Edmonds – Mezzo-soprano […]

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Reginald Mobley’s sweet, clear countertenor with Bach Akademie Australia, highly recommended!

Bach Akademie Australia | The Countertenor – Bach’s Holy Spirit 6 April 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW PROGRAM: J.C. Bach: Lamento ‘Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte’ J.S. Bach: […]

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Alan Holley

Jenny Duck-Chong + Jo Allan = Delightful.

Jenny Duck-Chong mezzo soprano + Jo Allan piano |  Recital 18 April, 2026, St John’s Darlinghurst, NSW Two of Sydney’s cultural warriors for the ‘new’ Jenny Duck-Chong and Jo Allan performed a salon style vocal concert in the historic St John’s Darlinghurst built in the 1850’s. Some of the 19 works performed were nigh on a minute and none outstayed

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Richard Wong

Luminescence’s Tenebrae II: when the choir sang, the magic began

Luminescence Chamber Singers | Gesualdo Tenebrae II Thursday, 19 April, The Neilson Theatre, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW The venue was wharf 2, where the ACO (Australian Chamber Orchestra) have made their home. It was quite a long walk from the tram station, but the quiet and peacefulness of the night stroll made me receptive to the chromaticism that was

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Duo de Graaf Connie bring sparkling Art Song to the intimate Athenaeum Library

Christelise de Graaf and Meredith Connie | Splendid: Art Songs through the Ages 13 March, 2026, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne VIC The Melbourne Atheneum Library was treated to a beautiful concert presented by Christelise de Graaf (soprano) and Meredith Connie (classical guitarist and composer) on Friday evening. The duo explored repertoire that is not often given an airing but showed

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Tony Burke

Australia Ensemble UNSW’s Soldier’s Tale nothing less than sublime

Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 1 March 14, 2026, University of NSW, NSW To hear a cleverly inspired solo actor play is a privilege – when it is accompanied by brilliantly conceived and played musical accompaniment, it is nothing less than sublime. Written at the time of the Great War with the collaboration of playwright Charles Ramuz, as a play

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Pepe Newton

Ensemble Offspring’s 2026 opener – Epic, Up Close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens Summer March 1, 2026, Glebe, NSW Ensemble Offspring opens its 2026 season not in a concert hall but in a generous supporter’s living room. The Avant Gardens series – this year spanning summer, autumn and spring – is salon culture revived with new music at its heart. The exact address is only revealed the week

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Warren Wills

A scintillating and genre-defying performance from Roomful of Teeth

Roomful of Teeth | Voices beyond borders 11 February 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC The Occasion Such joy as heading to the Melbourne Recital Centre on Wednesday night in the midst of a crazy four-season muggy Summer night climate-wise, but tinged with demonstrations, contentions, Winter Olympics, World T20 Cricket and so many other dubious distractions. As far as memorable names go to

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Warren Wills

ACO’s Cocteau’s Circle – Encore Chloe Lankshear!

Australia Chamber Orchestra | Cocteau’s Circle November 17, 2025, Melbourne Recital Hall The Occasion A Monday night in the inventive and exploratory hands of Richard Tognetti and the ingenious ACO, Australia Chamber Orchestra. Having scaled the West face of Everest in ‘Mountain’ merely a fortnight ago, we have now migrated to the Melbourne Recital Centre, and set our Time Machine

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Music for Medicine’25, an inspiring evening of generous artistry

Music for Medicine ’25 28 August, 2025, Wollongong Art Gallery, NSW Nearly 600 people gathered at Wollongong Town Hall for a concert, raising over $20,000 in support of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).  What unfolded was an evening of thoughtful programming, striking artistic contrasts, and heartfelt commitment bound together by a thematic focus on children’s right to freedom and

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Daniel Kaan

Sara Macliver dazzling with SSO under Stephen Layton

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Stephen Layton conducts Bach Mozart & Handel 21 August 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW PROGRAM: JS BACH Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV51 MOZART Exsultate, jubilate  HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks ARTISTS: STEPHEN LAYTON conductor SARA MACLIVER soprano What is not to like about a program of unrelentingly cheerful music? The world-renowned choral conductor, Stephen Layton, who specialises in

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Daniel Brace

Soprano Amanda Hargreaves takes out the 2025 RMP Aria Award

The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic | Aria Awards 16 August, 2025 | The Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne, VIC The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Aria Awards celebrate emerging singers performing music from the oratorio genre and other sacred works for solo voice. Previous award winners include some of the great emerging singers of the past 19 years, including Amelia Jones, Christian Smith, Max Riebl, and

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Daniel Kaan

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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Pepe Newton

Sjaella sparkle in their Sydney Opera House debut

Utzon Music | Sjaella 13 July 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW With Sydney Harbour glittering through the Utzon Room’s glass wall and Fort Denison posing quietly in the background, the stage was perfectly set for a performance that flitted and fluttered like birdsong through centuries and cultures. Sjaella, an all-female sextet from Germany celebrating 20 years of singing

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Pepe Newton

High praise for The Song Company + Eamonn Dougan’s programming

The Song Company | Love’s Four Seasons 15 June 2025, Blackheath Uniting Church, NSW Eamonn Dougan’s Love’s Four Seasons is the kind of program that goes beyond simply exploring music, it explores humanity. I was lucky enough to catch the final performance of this series, touring Newcastle, Wollongong, Canberra, Sydney and the Blue Mountains, performed in Blackheath on a crisp

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Pepe Newton

The Class of ’85 showcases BAA’s baroque brilliance

Bach Akademie Australia | Class of ’85 30 May 2025, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW They say greatness is born, not made, but 1685 might have been an exception. Three of the greatest composers of the Baroque era, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, and Johann Sebastian Bach, were all born that year. Whether by fate or coincidence, this serendipitous trifecta

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Gillian Wills

Musica Viva’s Hollywood Songbook shows astonishing ensemble mastery

Musica Viva | Hollywood Songbook 8 May, 2025, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane, QLD I confess I’ve attended many, many worthy Musica Viva concerts, but I’ve never been to one where the soloist, in this case soprano Ali McGregor, makes numerous costume calls. Every time she returned to the stage she wore a different last century look- somewhere between the 1920’s

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Hats off to emerging musicians in Art Songs at the Utzon Room

Shaumet Music | Art Songs 26 April 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW Artists Soprano – Camilla Wright Tenor – Daniel Verschuer Soprano – Xiaoxu Aleta Shang Repetiteur – Stacey Yang What an interesting idea, to present a small taste of art songs from different countries in one program. Three singers each presented two brackets, every bracket featuring a

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Philharmonia breathes new life into Bach

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Bach’s St Matthew Passion (Mendelssohn Version) 17 April 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW Performers Elizabeth Scott – Conductor Penelope Mills – Soprano Emily Edmonds – Mezzo-soprano Andrew Goodwin – Tenor (Evangelist) Teddy Tahu Rhodes – Bass-baritone (Jesus) Andrew O’Connor – Bass Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra VOX (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ youth ensemble) Sydney Philharmonia Chamber Singers

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Daniel Kaan

Reginald Mobley’s sweet, clear countertenor with Bach Akademie Australia, highly recommended!

Bach Akademie Australia | The Countertenor – Bach’s Holy Spirit 6 April 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW PROGRAM: J.C. Bach: Lamento ‘Ach, dass ich Wassers gnug hätte’ J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 82 ‘Ich habe genug’ A. Vivaldi: Salve Regina R.616 (Antiphona) J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 54 ‘Widerstehe doch der Sünde’ ARTISTS:

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