The Song Company | Songs from the Heart – Canberra
Australian National University - Larry Sitzky Hall, CanberraThe Song Company is proud to continue its relationship with First Nations’ composers Sonya Holowell and Elizabeth Sheppard. Elizabeth and Sonya are creating with us a new a cappella program…
Phoenix Collective Quartet | Notes of Obsession – Tuggeranong
Tuggeranong Arts CentrePROGRAM Janáček String Quartet No.2, Intimate Letters Schubert String Quartet D810 No.14, Death and the Maiden Launched by Charmian Gadd at the Crossroads Festival, The Phoenix Collective Quartet is a…
Phoenix Collective Quartet | Notes of Obsession – Ainslie
All Saints Anglican Church, AinsliePROGRAM Janáček String Quartet No.2, Intimate Letters Schubert String Quartet D810 No.14, Death and the Maiden Launched by Charmian Gadd at the Crossroads Festival, The Phoenix Collective Quartet is a…
Luminescence Chamber Singers | Drawing Breath – Braidwood
St Andrew's Anglican Church BraidwoodFirst breaths, last breaths, and the vast compass of human feeling in between. Our breath is a base expression of our feelings – we let out an anxious or surprised…
Luminescence Chamber Singers | Drawing Breath – Canberra
National Museum of AustraliaFirst breaths, last breaths, and the vast compass of human feeling in between. Our breath is a base expression of our feelings – we let out an anxious or surprised…
Australian Haydn Ensemble + John Bell | Haydn Speaks – Canberra
Albert Hall, CanberraTrue (and some tall) tales of the great composer’s life are revealed when his ghost meets the Ensemble that bears his name. In the face of his prodigious output of…
Selby & Friends | Tributes & Legacies – Canberra
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, CanberraThis closing program for the season is all about the strength of legacy and the tributes it brought forth from each composer. We begin with a piano work by Ravel,…
Omega Ensemble | Ex Machina
Ainslie Arts Centre, BraddonAaron Copland’s thrilling Sextet started life as his Second Symphony. However, following its premiere, the work was avoided by orchestras due to its complexity. Out of frustration, Copland re-wrote the…
CSO Chamber Ensemble | Chamber Classics – Best of Brass
Albert Hall, CanberraShowcasing CSO brass, this program revels in musical genre-bending and boundary-breaking from around the world, featuring five compositional voices and encompassing many more artistic languages and traditions. In his Mini Overture,…
Salut! Baroque | Medicinal Music
Albert Hall, CanberraBy the 18th century, little was yet understood about diseases, which were often extremely contagious, with high mortality rates. Treatments were usually ineffective and often hastened death. In the absence…
ASQ | Symonds Beethoven — Canberra
Gandel Hall, National Gallery of AustraliaA quartet tour de force Jack Symonds’ String Quartet No.2 whispers into existence, interrupting the intangible build-up of concert expectancy with an ascending violin line that is the very genesis…
Canberra Symphony Orchestra | Llewellyn Four – Infinite Possibilities
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, CanberraArtists Jessica Cottis Conductor Markiyan Melnychenko Violin Canberra Symphony Orchestra Program Leah Curtis World premiere, CSO commission Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47 Igor Stravinsky Petrushka (1947 version) This…