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October 2019
Flinders Quartet | Collins Street Series – Concert 3
Tickets: Standard $38 | Concession $28 Flinders Quartet’s popular Collins Street concert series closes 2019 with a program of Debussy and Zhao Zheng. While separated by geography and history, the musical colours of contemporary Chinese sensation, Zhao Zhang and Debussy’s works illustrate the way music is able to unite cultures. Both quintessentially nationalistic in their own ways, the similarities between the two works on this program are far more striking than their differences. Concert Program: Zhao ZHANG | String Quartet No.…
Find out more »Flinders Quartet with Genevieve Lacey & Has Zheng | Translations
Tickets: Standard $50 | Concession $40 Melbourne’s Flinders Quartet is instantly recognisable as one of Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles. Its dynamic performances run the full spectrum of repertoire and leave audiences and critics expressing their praise: ‘We are indeed fortunate to have resident in Australia a quartet of this very high calibre’ - classikON. A quartet for the 21st century, Flinders supports emerging Australian composers and musicians with its critically acclaimed programming, impressing audiences with gripping interpretations of…
Find out more »BackStage Music | Radio Signals
Tickets: General admission $35 | Concession $20 Tickets are available online through and at the door (subject to availability). Backstage Music are pleased to be celebrating the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio alongside new works by Cathy Milliken and Fiona Hill in this program. Stockhausen and Berio were pioneers of electronic music and electro acoustic music in the 1960s and 70s. Australian oboist and composer, Cathy Milliken worked with both composers during her time as a member of…
Find out more »Elder Conservatorium of Music Lunchtime Concert – The Music of Harold Arlen
TICKETS: Lunchtime concert admission is $14 and single concert tickets are exclusively available at the door from 12:30pm. PERFORMERS: James Muller guitar/director Honours Jazz Ensemble You may not remember his name but you definitely know his songs! Harold Arlen wrote some of the greatest works in the American Song Book including Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Stormy Weather and I’ve Got the World on a String. James Muller and the Honours Jazz Ensemble bring some of Arlen’s most beautiful works to life.…
Find out more »Jandamarra – Sing for the Country
Jandamarra – Sing for the Country is a new piece for massed voices and orchestra that tells the story of a young Bunuba Aboriginal man from the Kimberley in Western Australia, who was a warrior and courageous leader for his people. He grew up at the time when white pastoralists were first laying claim to Bunuba country. It was the frontier; a time of violence and great upheaval. He was only in his mid twenties when he was gunned down,…
Find out more »Music At Manly: Romancero Gitano
Tickets: Full, Adult $35 | Pensioner Concession, Full-time Student Concession $20 | Children or Students, accompanied by Adult paying patron $0. PARKING is included with your ticket purchase, and is available at St Paul's College opposite St Patrick's Estate. Guitarist Ermano Brignolo is joined by Sydney Antiphony voices for a recital of Spanish music from the Renaissance to the 21st Century. The programme will include works by Luis de Naraèz, Manuel de Falla and the important work Romancero Gitano by Mario Castel-Nuovo for vocal…
Find out more »Taikoz | Seven Flowers
Taikoz presents the world premiere of their latest work, Seven Flowers - a truly unique combination of spectacular taiko drumming, beautiful song, dynamic movement and stunning stage design – at the City Recital Hall on 18 October. Seven Flowers is a brand-new work based on the words of 15th century Japanese playwright and theoretician, Zeami Motokiyo. In his work Fushikaden, Zeami describes the seven periods of an artist’s life, beginning at the tender age of seven. In Seven Flowers, Taikoz…
Find out more »Balmain Baroque | urban baroque music
Tickets: Adult $20 | Concession $15. Tickets available on the door. Children are welcome. Balmain Baroque is a 5 piece baroque group, with soprano/baroque flute, violin, cello, harpsichord and recorder. They have been playing together since 1995. This concert will feature works by Vivaldi, Handel, and Telemann. Children are welcome. Performers: Amanda Muir | Soprano/baroque flute Tony Eyers | recorder Lidia Bara | violin Darsha Kumar | cello Donn Mendoza | harpsichord Any queries can be directed to Tony Eyers…
Find out more »The Splendour of an Edwardian Afternoon
Tickets: Adult $20 | Concession $15 | Children under 12 - free. Tickets may be obtained at the door or through TryBooking. Enjoy an afternoon of entertaining music from around the Edwardian period at the historic Neutral Bay Uniting Church. The church possesses a rare 1912 organ by the Australian organ builder Charles Richardson. Hear the organ in an unusual combination of trumpet, voice and piano as you have never hear it before. Including works by Parry, Ireland, Sullivan, Elgar…
Find out more »Aachen Cathedral Girls’ Choir in concert
Tickets: Adult $20 | Concession $15 | Children free - tickets available at the door only. The spectacular Cathedral Girls’ Choir from Aachen, Germany, visiting Australia for the first time, join forces with two outstanding local choirs from Pymble Ladies’ College and SCEGGS Darlinghurst in a concert of choral music new and old in the beautiful acoustics of St James’ Church, King street, Sydney
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