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May 2019
Australian Haydn Ensemble: French Twist
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major opens this French feast of chamber music. Although not written in France, the last movement of this charismatic work contains a French style Rondo highlighting Mozart’s comical reputation with the tempo indication: “not…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: French Twist
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major opens this French feast of chamber music. Although not written in France, the last movement of this charismatic work contains a French style Rondo highlighting Mozart’s comical reputation with the tempo indication: “not…
Find out more »June 2019
Australian Haydn Ensemble: French Twist
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major opens this French feast of chamber music. Although not written in France, the last movement of this charismatic work contains a French style Rondo highlighting Mozart’s comical reputation with the tempo indication: “not…
Find out more »Sydney Chamber Choir: A Royal Affair
Tickets: Premium Reserve Adult $75 | Premium Reserve Concession $65 | A Reserve Adult $60 | A Reserve Concession $55 | B Reserve Adult $50 | B Reserve Concession $45 | Student $25 PERFORMERS: Sydney Chamber Choir Sam Allchurch Conductor The Muffat Collective PROGRAM: Malcolm Williamson Love, The Sentinel Symphony For Voices Judith Weir A Blue True Dream Of Sky Love Bade Me Welcome The Song Sung True George Frideric Handel Dettingen Te Deum Zadok The Priest Masterworks from two…
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The Marais Project: Time & Seasons – Baroque Songs & Interludes
“Times and Seasons” celebrates The Marais Project’s 20 years as one of Australia’s most creative early music ensembles. The Rose Room event features special guest, Swedish gambist, Leif Henrikson, a long-term friend and colleague of revered lutenist, Tommie Andersson. The program consists of music for two viola da gambas and continuo and songs and arias for voice and viola da gambas from Italy, France, England, Germany and Sweden. The Marais Project's 20th Anniversary CD, “The Garden Party”, will be available…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: French Twist
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major opens this French feast of chamber music. Although not written in France, the last movement of this charismatic work contains a French style Rondo highlighting Mozart’s comical reputation with the tempo indication: “not…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: French Twist
Tickets: Standard $80 | Pensioner $70 | Senior $70 | Student $25 | Under 30 $35 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major opens this French feast of chamber music. Although not written in France, the last movement of this charismatic work contains a French style Rondo highlighting Mozart’s comical reputation with the…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: French Twist
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble Experience the essence of eighteenth century France in this chamber music program of Devienne, Rameau, Jadin, Mozart and Haydn. Mozart’s Flute Quartet in A major opens this French feast of chamber music. Although not written in France, the last movement of this charismatic work contains a French style Rondo highlighting Mozart’s comical reputation with the tempo indication: “not…
Find out more »Australia Ensemble: Folksong
AE welcome one of Australia’s most sought-after mezzo sopranos, Fiona Campbell, together with world-renowned harpist and regular guest, Alice Giles.
Find out more »Evergreen Ensemble performs at The Early Dance Consort’s Scottish Baroque Winter Ball Dance
Tickets: Adults $20 | Children $5 (no additional charge for students currently enrolled in the term) The Early Dance Consort are thrilled to announce that the Scottish Baroque Winter Ball 2019 will be joined by a fabulous ensemble of musicians from Scotland and Australia, in an evening of Scottish music, song and dancing from the baroque to early Colonial Australia, featuring: David McGuinness (keyboards) and Aaron McGregor (violin) from Scotland's Concerto Caledonia, and musicians from the Melbourne-based Evergreen Ensemble, led…
Find out more »The Baroque Viola
Take part in baroque violist Katie Yap’s musical trip to Europe and back – before she takes the journey in person! Beginning with the sunrise theme of Handel’s first violin sonata (arranged for viola and cello), Katie and her travelling companion, cellist Dan Curro will explore beloved works from 18th Century Europe by J.S. Bach, Stamitz and Boccherini. Then they’ll hop in the TARDIS to arrive in modern Australia, still armed with their baroque instruments! Discover the enchanting and intimate…
Find out more »Sensory Concerts® Cherrybrook
Experience a high-quality live classical concert, especially designed for children and adults with sensory/special needs. Performed by acclaimed musicians in a relaxed setting, with various seating options, retreat space, and on-site therapist support. Performers: Teije Hylkema (Principal Cello, Opera Australia Orchestra) Kees Boersma (Principal Double Bass, Sydney Symphony Orchestra) Grace Kim, (Creative director, piano) Onsite therapists: Josey Sharpe, Occupational Therapist, Jenny Wu (Rehab Therapies) Presented by Your Music Inc. Enquiries: Louise Ph. 0456 25 9373 email: sensoryconcerts@gmail.com
Find out more »The Baroque Viola
Take part in baroque violist Katie Yap’s musical trip to Europe and back – before she takes the journey in person! Beginning with the sunrise theme of Handel’s first violin sonata (arranged for viola and cello), Katie and her travelling companions, violinist Shaun Lee-Chen and cellist Krista Low will explore beloved works from 18th Century Europe by J.S. Bach, Boccherini and Mozart. Then they’ll hop in the TARDIS to arrive in modern Australia, still armed with their baroque instruments! Discover…
Find out more »Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra: NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition Finals Concert
Tickets: Early bird prices - Standard $40 | Pensioner $30 | Student/junior $12 From 29 May - Standard $50 | Pensioner $35 | Student/junior $12 6 individual finalists in the 2019 NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition and the winners of the Multiple Concerto section will perform their selected concerto movement with orchestra on Saturday 29 June, competing for prizes and opportunities in this prestigious annual event. Regarded as a stepping stone to national and international success, the competition has been…
Find out more »Strathfield Symphony Orchestra: Romantics
Is there any greater celebratory work than the Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture? Strathfield Symphony Orchestra think not! How will they fit the cannons into the Strathfield Town Hall? You will have to be there to find out. Although technically pushing the boundaries of romanticism, William Walton’s Viola concerto joins the program. A tribute to Strathfield Symphony's fantastic viola section who boast the highest percentage of volunteers that help keep the orchestra running (our treasurer, secretary, vice president and concert caterer are…
Find out more »Strathfield Symphony Orchestra: Romantics
Is there any greater celebratory work than the Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture? Strathfield Symphony Orchestra think not! How will they fit the cannons into the Strathfield Town Hall? You will have to be there to find out. Although technically pushing the boundaries of romanticism, William Walton’s Viola concerto joins the program. A tribute to Strathfield Symphony's fantastic viola section who boast the highest percentage of volunteers that help keep the orchestra running (our treasurer, secretary, vice president and concert caterer are…
Find out more »July 2019
Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus by CIRCA
The thrill of the circus, the mayhem of Mozart Straight from the score and onto the stage, the man known as Mozart appears amid a storm of powder, tumbling and twirling, as musical mayhem and movement fuse in this family show with a circus twist. To those who know him, he is Wolfgang, the dart-playing, pun-loving ratbag. To those who are watching and listening, he is the wigged genius Mozart. Come and discover his irrepressible spirit and vibrant compositions through…
Find out more »Fauré Requiem and works by Debussy, Ravel, Saint Saëns and Fauré
This concert combines Fauré's sublime Requiem, one of the best-loved of all choral works, with shorter secular pieces from the French repertoire. Debussy's sensitive settings of 15th century poems by Charles d'Orleans contrast with Ravel's exquisite Trois Chansons, where both the composer's own texts and music are full of archaic references. Fauré's witty Madrigal and a selection of Saint-Saëns' expressive songs complete the program. Rick Prakhoff conducts the Melbourne Bach Choir and Orchestra, with soloists Emilia Bertolini, soprano, and Jeremy…
Find out more »Sydney Youth Orchestra: Beethoven’s Fifth
Tickets: Adult $50 | Concession $25 | Child $25 Performers & Programs The Sydney Youth Orchestra conducted by Alexander Briger AO BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 COPLAND Orchestral Suite from Appalachian Spring Those first four notes. Three short, one long. Instantly, classical music was atomised, the symphonic form stripped down and readied for an upgrade and a fresh install. Music from a little over two hundred years ago doesn’t get any more primal than this. No wonder it’s the most famous…
Find out more »Thoroughbass presents The Toybox
Tickets: Adult $25 | Pensioner/Senior $19 | Child 18 & under $19 | Family of 4 $20 each Too good not to reprise, The Toybox returns in July at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. Claude Debussy’s little-known children’s ballet La Boîte à joujoux (The Toybox) is transformed from ballet back to story-form by Inara Molinari, accompanied by a small ensemble and various noisy toys (Thoroughbass). An illustrated miniature masterpiece full of microscopic detail, it entrances young and old alike. Come on a…
Find out more »Thoroughbass presents The Toybox
Tickets: Adult $25 | Pensioner/Senior $19 | Child 18 & under $19 | Family of 4 $20 each Too good not to reprise, The Toybox returns in July at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. Claude Debussy’s little-known children’s ballet La Boîte à joujoux (The Toybox) is transformed from ballet back to story-form by Inara Molinari, accompanied by a small ensemble and various noisy toys (Thoroughbass). An illustrated miniature masterpiece full of microscopic detail, it entrances young and old alike. Come on a…
Find out more »Thoroughbass presents The Toybox
Tickets: Adult $25 | Pensioner/Senior $19 | Child 18 & under $19 | Family of 4 $20 each Too good not to reprise, The Toybox returns in July at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. Claude Debussy’s little-known children’s ballet La Boîte à joujoux (The Toybox) is transformed from ballet back to story-form by Inara Molinari, accompanied by a small ensemble and various noisy toys (Thoroughbass). An illustrated miniature masterpiece full of microscopic detail, it entrances young and old alike. Come on a…
Find out more »Burgundian Consort: Lunch Hour Recital
The Burgundian Consort will explore a selection of Australian composers, each portraying the rugged musical landscape of their homeland
Find out more »August 2019
LIME2: UNSW Wind Symphony
The Wind Symphony provides repertoire, largely dates from after 1900, with arrangements of works from all eras and styles
Find out more »Sydney Mozart Society: Sydney Soloists
The members of the Sydney Soloists are well known to Australian and international audiences for their orchestral, solo and ensemble performances
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven Four
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble The Ensemble performs a rare chamber version of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, along with a virtuosic Flute Sextet by Boccherini and Mozart’s much-loved String Quintet in G minor. It has been suggested that Mozart may have written his string quintets K.515 and K.516 to impress King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and to surpass the quintets written by…
Find out more »LIME3: UNSW Orchestra
The Orchestra’s repertoire is broadly from the Classical (1750-1810) and Romantic (1810-1910) eras.
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven Four
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble The Ensemble performs a rare chamber version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, along with a virtuosic Flute Sextet by Boccherini and Mozart’s much-loved String Quintet in G minor. It has been suggested that Mozart may have written his string quintets K.515 and K.516 to impress King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and to surpass the quintets written by…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven Four
Tickets: Adult $60 | Concession $50 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble The Ensemble performs a rare chamber version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, along with a virtuosic Flute Sextet by Boccherini and Mozart’s much-loved String Quintet in G minor. It has been suggested that Mozart may have written his string quintets K.515 and K.516 to impress King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and to surpass the quintets written by…
Find out more »Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven Four
Tickets: Adult $80 | Concession $70 | Under 30 $35 | Student $25 Artists: Skye McIntosh – Artistic Director Australian Haydn Ensemble The Ensemble performs a rare chamber version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, along with a virtuosic Flute Sextet by Boccherini and Mozart’s much-loved String Quintet in G minor. It has been suggested that Mozart may have written his string quintets K.515 and K.516 to impress King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia and to surpass the quintets written by…
Find out more »Sydney University Graduate Choir: Puccini – Messa di Gloria & 2019 Joan Carden Award
Tickets: Adults $50 | Pensioners (no Seniors Card) $40 | Children 16 and under & full-time students $25 Sydney University Graduate Choir's August concert features Giacomo Puccini’s youthful Messa di Gloria. This work, written as a graduation exercise, already reveals much of the mastery of his mature operatic works. It is thus a fitting work for a concert featuring the finalists of the 2019 Joan Carden Award competition. These exceptional young singers, at the beginning of their careers, will demonstrate…
Find out more »IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition Semi-Finals Concert
Many talented young singers from around the world entered and now only 11 remain. This is your chance to hear our finest young operatic talent as they compete for the coveted Marianne Mathy Scholarship. Who will rise to the occasion? Who will transport you with their voice? Who will be a Finalist? Be in the audience to find out. The IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition is recognised as one of the longest-running events of its kind, offering a range of…
Find out more »Collegium Musicum Choir 2
The choir also presents less familiar works but by important composers, to introduce both the singers and the audience to another side of choral music
Find out more »Australia Ensemble: Cool Fire
Much-loved Australian composer Miriam Hyde’s Trio for flute, oboe and piano, sets the tone of neoclassical elegance in this program of contrasts.
Find out more »ARCO: New Constellations
Tickets: $25-$95 Berlin-based violinist Jakob Lehmann leads an ensemble of specialist local and international chamber musicians through the expansive sounds and pioneering ideas of New Constellations. The Octet for Strings was written when Mendelssohn was just 16, and illustrates the transformation of performance techniques in the chamber music of the early-Romantic period. Brahms destroyed the nonet version of his Serenade, but based on archives and written accounts, Alan Boustead has brought this original chamber version back to life. “This was…
Find out more »Pacific Opera visits Northside Opera
Tickets: $20 - pay at event. Simon Kenway and the Young Artists of Pacific Opera return to Northside Opera Study Group to speak about their mission to provide young singers with quality insights and experience into the world of opera as a career. Featuring performances by Pacific Opera's talented young artists. Northside Opera Study Group meets on Monday mornings from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm in the Undercroft at St David's Uniting Church, 454 Pacific Highway, Lindfield NSW 2070. St…
Find out more »September 2019
Australia Ensemble: Heart*Beat
AE premiere new commission by Sydney-based composer Jessica Wells, who is well-known in the commercial music world on the ABC's Q&A
Find out more »Burgundian Consort: Evening Recital
Copland, Durufle, and Thomas Morley plus premiere performance of the winner of the inaugural Willgoss Choral Composition Prize 2019.
Find out more »Sydney Mozart Society: Sophie Rowell and Kristian Chong
Sophie Rowell is one of Australia’s foremost violinists. Kristian Chong is one of Australia’s leading pianists.
Find out more »October 2019
Australia Ensemble: Guilty Pleasures
Australia Ensemble performs a favourite commission, Guilty Pleasures by John Peterson.
Find out more »Sydney Mozart Society: The Enigma Quartet
The Enigma Quartet has established a reputation for fine technique, intelligent interpretations and dynamic performance style.
Find out more »November 2019
Sydney University Graduate Choir: Sydney Sings™… Brahms – A German Requiem
Tickets: Adults $50 | Pensioners (no Seniors Card) $40 | Children 16 and under & full-time students $25 Sydney University Graduate Choir's 2019 Sydney Sings...™ concert presents Brahms’ A German Requiem, a timeless work, full of comfort and hope. Not based on the traditional Latin text, this Requiem focuses rather on the living, beginning with the words ‘Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted’. Brahms himself admitted that he would gladly have named the work ‘A Human…
Find out more »LIME4: UNSW Orchestra
The Orchestra’s repertoire is broadly from the Classical (1750-1810) and Romantic (1810-1910) eras.
Find out more »LIME5: UNSW Wind Symphony
The Wind Symphony provides repertoire, largely dates from after 1900, with arrangements of works from all eras and styles
Find out more »Strathfield Symphony Orchestra: The Future
50 is the new 30! Strathfield Symphony at 50 years young is looking towards the next 50 years. They come together and perform through a love of music, collaboration and community. This concert is all about a bigger and better future and you can’t get much bigger than Mahler’s Symphony No.5. And just because that doesn’t give the brass nearly enough to do, they will introduce the concert with Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. Onwards and upwards!
Find out more »Strathfield Symphony Orchestra: The Future
50 is the new 30! Strathfield Symphony at 50 years young is looking towards the next 50 years. They come together and perform through a love of music, collaboration and community. This concert is all about a bigger and better future and you can’t get much bigger than Mahler’s Symphony No.5. And just because that doesn’t give the brass nearly enough to do, they will introduce the concert with Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. Onwards and upwards!
Find out more »Collegium Musicum Choir 3
The Collegium Musicum performs familiar repertoire including oratorios, masses, requiems and other sacred works, and secular works appropriate to a large choir.
Find out more »Pacific Opera: Opera Lunedi Christmas Concert
Tickets: $20 (pay at event) Pacific Opera artists return for the second year running to perform a charming Christmas concert for the members of Opera Lunedi in Killara. Artists and repertoire to be announced.
Find out more »SYO’s Peter Seymour Orchestra: Classical Discovery
Tickets: Adult $25 | Concession $15 | Child $15 | SYO Musician $15 Performers & Programs Peter Seymour Orchestra conducted by John Ockwell The Peter Seymour Orchestra, under the direction of leading music educator and conductor John Ockwell, performs works from the canon of Classical period repertoire. This concert is a great way to introduce people, young and old, to classical music with conductor John Ockwell giving audiences a hands-on experience of the orchestra. Additional Information: Young children are welcome…
Find out more »December 2019
Bel a cappella: Noel!
Bel a cappella’s Christmas Concert will be built around Benjamin Britten’s composition for unaccompanied voices.
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