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August 2018
Australian Haydn Ensemble: Schubert Songs – with David Greco
The Ensemble brings you a stunning selection of Schubert’s most-loved songs in newly commissioned chamber arrangements for string quintet and baritone.
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: 468 Live
The Conservatorium Civic String Quartet will collaborate with one of Australia’s finest DJs in an innovative live-stream performance.
Find out more »AWO’s Classic STOMP
Tickets available by pre-purchase only for $25 (includes concert and beer from Stomping Ground Brewing Co) Join the AWO for the second in their Classic STOMP concert series with Stomping Ground Brewing Co. The evening kicks off at 6.30pm, where you will be welcomed with a cool craft ale from the fine folk at Stomping Ground. Classic Stomp events are short curated performances outside the traditional concert hall environment and are followed by drinks and a chat with the musicians.…
Find out more »Vivaldi’s Violins
From a humble orphanage in Venice, Antonio Vivaldi wrote some of the most celebrated, and fiendishly difficult, concertos of the Baroque era. Leading violinist Sophie Rowell joins members of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra for a concert dedicated to some of the most spectacular of these concertos.
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Beyond Time
Evocative music of JS Bach and David Banney set the mood in this concert by Festival Artists-in-Residence, the highly acclaimed Omega Ensemble.
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Music on a Plate – Vanishing Shapes at Momo Wholefood
The Music on a Plate series brings food and music together in iconic Newcastle venues.
Find out more »Lunchtime Concert Series – Flute Recital
Megan Sterling Flute Kristian Chong Piano Taktakishvili Sonata for Flute and Piano Poulenc Flute Sonata Jolivet Chant de Linos The brilliance of the popular woodwind instrument is showcased by Principal Flute of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Megan Sterling, joined by pianist Kristian Chong in a presentation of works by 20th-century composers including Taktakishvili and Poulenc. Entry to this lunchtime concert is available at the door from 12:30pm. If you plan on attending most of the concerts, you could save up…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: Schubert Songs – with David Greco
The Ensemble brings you a stunning selection of Schubert’s most-loved songs in newly commissioned chamber arrangements for string quintet and baritone.
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Schubert Songs
Joined by brilliant baritone David Greco, the Australian Haydn Ensemble brings you a stunning selection of Schubert’s most-loved songs
Find out more »Path of Miracles
Journey to the edge of the world in Joby Talbot’s stunning acapella pilgrimage; a contemporary classic. Setting the words of English poet Robert Dickinson and multilingual historical and sacred documents, the four movements of Path of Miracles follow the great pilgrim trail of Camino de Santiago. PROGRAM: Joby Talbot Path of Miracles PERFORMERS: Brett Weymark conductor Chamber Singers The hardships and ecstasies of travel are brought to life in a spine-tingling choral tour de force. From the optimism of setting out, the agonies of…
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Deborah Humble Masterclass
Deborah Humble makes a welcome return to the Festival as she works with aspiring young singers in a masterclass.
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Love Notes – I’ll sing yours if you’ll play mine
When two composers join forces on stage, anything is possible! Baritone Michael Lampard and pianist Ross Fiddes perform each other’s song cycles
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »Willoughby Symphony Orchestra: Last Night of the Proms
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton AM leads the full Willoughby Orchestra and Choir in this massive celebration of symphonic and choral masterworks
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Habanera
Deborah is joined by guitarists Andrew Blanch and Ariel Nurhadi, and pianist Amanda Neale, in a concert centred on the exotic colours and rhythms of Spanish songs.
Find out more »Central Coast Opera presents Puccini’s La Bohème
TICKETS: Adult $50 | Concession, students & groups of 10+ $40 | Child $35 PROGRAM & PERFORMERS: Puccini | Conductor Patrick Brennan | Director Warwick Doddrell Central Coast Opera is poised to deliver a stunning production of one of the worlds most loved and well-known opera’s, Puccini’s “La Bohème”. An affiliate of the Central Coast Conservatorium, Central Coast Opera’ s latest production, La Bohème, is set to continue the successful run of shows delivered by this ever-expanding opera company.…
Find out more »Meet the Orchestra – Peter Seymour Orchestra
The conductor started with a tap tap tap and the strings began to sing la-la-la . Then the flutes joined in with a tootle toot too and the trumpets butted in with a pah-pa-rah-pa! And the sound of the drums shook the room with a boom, boom boom! Meet the Orchestra concerts are a wonderful way to introduce orchestral music to families and young children. Performed by the SYO's Peter Seymour Orchestra, this relaxed and informal concert has been specially…
Find out more »Central Coast Opera presents Puccini’s La Bohème
TICKETS: Adult $50 | Concession, students & groups of 10+ $40 | Child $35 PROGRAM & PERFORMERS: Puccini | Conductor Patrick Brennan | Director Warwick Doddrell Central Coast Opera is poised to deliver a stunning production of one of the worlds most loved and well-known opera’s, Puccini’s “La Bohème”. An affiliate of the Central Coast Conservatorium, Central Coast Opera’ s latest production, La Bohème, is set to continue the successful run of shows delivered by this ever-expanding opera company.…
Find out more »Willoughby Symphony Orchestra: Last Night of the Proms
Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Dr Nicholas Milton AM leads the full Willoughby Orchestra and Choir in this massive celebration of symphonic and choral masterworks
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »A Prelude in Tea 2018
TICKETS: From $16-$48. Afternoon tea served from 2:30pm. Concert commences at 3:30pm. 2018 Sunday Series: A Prelude in Tea Join us on the last Sunday of the month for a scrumptious afternoon tea and concert from some of Australia’s best and most exciting small ensembles. Chamber Music Series: With the Streeton Trio, the Flinders Quartet, The Seraphim Trio and more, A Prelude in Tea chamber music concert is the perfect Sunday afternoon out for chamber music lovers. Song Series: Seven sublime Song Series concerts from some of…
Find out more »Cosmic Wheel of the Zodiac Album Launch Concert
Tickets: Adult $45 / Concession $40 / Student $15 / Child $13.50 A Cosmic Afternoon at the ABC with the Music of Margaret Brandman. Come along and be part of the much anticipated Australian launch of ‘COSMIC WHEEL OF THE ZODIAC‘ on the Navona label (nv6160). This unique song cycle for the twelve signs of the Zodiac, is composed by internationally acclaimed Australian composer/pianist Margaret Brandman, to the alluring poems of astropoet Benita Rainer. “The astropoetry of Benita Rainer serves…
Find out more »Newcastle Music Festival: Festival Finale
The Festival comes to a stunning conclusion with a performance by the Christ Church Camerata and the Festival Strings, with clarinettist David Rowden (Omega Ensemble), conducted by David Banney
Find out more »Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Poetical Melodies
The sublime string section of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra takes centre stage in this program
Find out more »Melbourne Musicians: Mozart & Donizetti
with Elena Xanthoudakis – soprano, and Anne Gilby – oboe
Find out more »Tea for Two with Allegri Ensemble
TICKETS: Tickets $40 including afternoon tea (please note: no concession price, no door sales). Seats are limited. Bookings close at 5:00 pm on Friday 17 August Allegri Ensemble Chamber Choir, directed by Andrew Bainbridge, invites you to enjoy our next concert, “Tea for Two”. Set in the beautiful Hobart Town Hall, we present a program which is not our usual fare - a bubbly a cappella tea party of folk songs, part-songs and popular songs. Music includes tasty treats such as Ravel’s…
Find out more »Soirées Musicales Quintette: with and without words
The centrepiece of this concert is a selection of arias and duets from Rossini’s Soirées Musicales, composed to Italian texts
Find out more »SIMONE YOUNG CONDUCTS BRAHMS
" liquid but decisive gestures invite nuance and subtlety, while demanding energy and rhythmic precision… It is a joy to watch such a wonderful conductor so hard at work”. – The Australian Richard Strauss’ sorrow-laden Metamorphosen, a threnody for the Germany of 1944 that lay in ruins about him, teeters precariously on the edge of this world and another: following its final bars, we are inevitably left staring into an immense silence. The life-affirming answer is the elegiac lyricism of Brahms’ Third Symphony.…
Find out more »Consort 8: A Joyful Noyse
Music from medieval to 21st century for countertenor, recorders, viols, lutes, theorbos & percussion
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »ARCO | Richard Gill presents Voices & Instruments
Richard Gill Presents a Voyage of Musical Discovery promises to become an invaluable addition to current music education in Australia.
Find out more »Central Coast Opera presents Puccini’s La Bohème
TICKETS: Adult $50 | Concession, students & groups of 10+ $40 | Child $35 PROGRAM & PERFORMERS: Puccini | Conductor Patrick Brennan | Director Warwick Doddrell Central Coast Opera is poised to deliver a stunning production of one of the worlds most loved and well-known opera’s, Puccini’s “La Bohème”. An affiliate of the Central Coast Conservatorium, Central Coast Opera’ s latest production, La Bohème, is set to continue the successful run of shows delivered by this ever-expanding opera company.…
Find out more »Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Poetical Melodies
The sublime string section of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra takes centre stage in this program from the Romantic period
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
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Love Notes: I’ll Sing Yours If You’ll Play Mine
When two composers join forces on stage, anything is possible! Baritone Michael Lampard and pianist Ross Fiddes perform each other’s song cycles, along with music of Bach, Beethoven, Verdi and Cole Porter. Program Beethoven - “An die ferne Geliebte” (“To the Distant Beloved”, Op. 98) (probably the very first song cycle) Lampard - So Young and Fair (texts by James Joyce) - Sydney premiere Verdi - Arias – “Di Provenza” (La Traviata), Alzati! Eritu (Un Ballo in Maschera) Interval Fiddes…
Find out more »Lunchtime Concert Series – Quintessential Cole Porter
James Muller Guitar with leading jazz students from the Elder Conservatorium Join jazz guitar lecturer James Muller and top jazz students from the Elder Conservatorium as they put a delicious modern spin on some of the most delightful works of Cole Porter. Featuring the conservatorium’s best jazz vocal talent, and including the songs Night and Day, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Begin the Beguine and Just One of Those Things. Entry to this lunchtime concert is available at the…
Find out more »Central Coast Opera presents Puccini’s La Bohème
TICKETS: Adult $50 | Concession, students & groups of 10+ $40 | Child $35 PROGRAM & PERFORMERS: Puccini | Conductor Patrick Brennan | Director Warwick Doddrell Central Coast Opera is poised to deliver a stunning production of one of the worlds most loved and well-known opera’s, Puccini’s “La Bohème”. An affiliate of the Central Coast Conservatorium, Central Coast Opera’ s latest production, La Bohème, is set to continue the successful run of shows delivered by this ever-expanding opera company.…
Find out more »Extended Play
Tickets: Full Pass (includes all performances on the main stage and foyers, including Bang on a Can All-Stars) $72; Bang on a Can All-Stars single ticket $60; Foyer Pass (includes all performances except those in the auditorium) $35 (Fees per transaction: phone $8.25, internet $6.60) A 12 hour music event featuring amazing contemporary performers and artists across three levels and in every nook and cranny of the recital hall. The return to Sydney of legendary 6-piece New York band Bang…
Find out more »Balmain Baroque
Balmain Baroque are a 6 piece baroque group, with sopranco/baroque flute, violin, cello, harpsichord and two(!) recorders.
Find out more »Sideband: Primordial
TICKETS: Entry by donation Sideband: Primordial features combinations of soprano, flute and percussion in a concert that includes works expressing ancient concepts that exist in the natural world. With performers Chloe Lankshear, the talented young soprano from Luminescence and Sideband regular Jane Bishop joining Brad Gill as guest performers.
Find out more »Timelight – Julian Bliss and NZTrio in Concert
TICKETS: Adult: $44, Concession: $39, Under 30: $34 Riverside Theatres will present British prodigy and clarinettist extraordinaire, Julian Bliss, alongside New Zealand’s leading piano trio for a must-see performance on Saturday 25th August. Bliss and NZTrio will perform an exclusive concert, Timelight, featuring a program of chamber music both vibrant and profound. Acclaimed by critics worldwide, Bliss has been wowing audiences since the age of four with his incredible repertoire, passion and musical curiosity. The breadth and depth of his artistry…
Find out more »One Of Australia’s Most Acclaimed Pianists Will Join TMO For Fever
TICKETS: Available online or by calling (02) 8004-3472. The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO), led by Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Sarah-Grace Williams, will perform their much anticipated 2018 All-Russian program. Titled Fever, this TMO tradition dedicated to the composers of Russia will feature Tamara-Anna Cislowska as soloist for Shostakovich’s cheerful Piano Concerto no 2. The feverish evening of Eastern European music will include Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. Appearing for the first time with conductor Williams and TMO, Tamara-Anna Cislowska…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Tormented Souls
Australia’s unique chamber music series returns in 2018 for a season devoted to celebrating musical partnerships
Find out more »A Prelude in Tea 2018
TICKETS: From $16-$48. Afternoon tea served from 2:30pm. Concert commences at 3:30pm. 2018 Sunday Series: A Prelude in Tea Join us on the last Sunday of the month for a scrumptious afternoon tea and concert from some of Australia’s best and most exciting small ensembles. Chamber Music Series: With the Streeton Trio, the Flinders Quartet, The Seraphim Trio and more, A Prelude in Tea chamber music concert is the perfect Sunday afternoon out for chamber music lovers. Song Series: Seven sublime Song Series concerts from some of…
Find out more »Lunchtime Concert Series – Violin Recital
Elizabeth Layton Violin Roy Howat* Piano Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano Ravel Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré Ravel Pièce en forme de habanera Fauré Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 Be entranced by the slow, mysterious melodies of Ravel’s Pièce en forme de habanera, performed by Elder Conservatorium Head of Strings Elizabeth Layton and distinguished pianist and scholar Roy Howat. A selection of works from prominent late romantics Debussy and Fauré round out this…
Find out more »Sydney Mozart Society Presents The Australian Haydn Ensemble
Formed in 2011, the Australian Haydn Ensemble is now regarded as one of Australia’s finest orchestras and chamber music groups.
Find out more »September 2018
Jacobean Singers
The Jacobean Singers is a well established choir in Sydney, with over 20 years experience in singing choral music throughout the state.
Find out more »Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra: Classical Masterpieces
The KPO presents two beautiful concerts in which you will be immersed in some of the finest music from the classical and baroque eras.
Find out more »Zelman Symphony Orchestra: From the Old World to the New
Czech composer Dvořák spent many years in the United States, reflected in his American Suite. Whilst there, he encouraged a new generation of US composers. Samuel Barber was one – his heartfelt Adagio for Strings will be followed by his Canzonetta for Oboe. At short notice, we are delighted to have Thomas Hutchinson, Associate Principal Oboe at Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as soloist. A graduate of ANAM and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he will also perform the Oboe Concerto by another Czech composer,…
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