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April 2019
Australian Chamber Choir presents Bach’s St John Passion
In the opening program of their 2019 season, Director Douglas Lawrence and the Australian Chamber Choir are joined by the Melbourne Baroque Orchestra to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's resplendent musical masterpiece, the St John Passion across regional Victoria and Melbourne in April and May. Renowned in Australia and throughout Europe the Australian Chamber Choir (ACC), founded in 2007 by its current director Douglas Lawrence OAM, transports its audience using the oldest instrument on the planet – the human voice. For this concert the…
Find out more »The Muses’ Delight: British Isles to the Australian Bush
Join The Muses’ Delight on a musical journey from the British Isles of the 18th Century to the raucous Australian bush. Two themes arise: dance, and the transformation of British folk and classical music as it finds a home in the sun, bush and sea of Australia. Through this playfully constructed program we visit Handel and Purcell in the English Court, then head downtown to the reels and jigs of the tavern. Ross Edwards’ Ecstatic Dances paint a vivid image…
Find out more »May 2019
Bach Concertos
Recently praised for his “simply gorgeous” playing and “crystalline phrasing” by the Washington Post, pianist David Fung is an ideal match for two of Bach's immaculate keyboard concertos. Program includes Bartók’s folk-flecked Divertimento and music of Telemann & Dvořák. PROGRAM: DVOŘÁK Three Miniatures Op 75a TELEMANN Concerto for four violins TWV54:A1 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A major BWV1055 BARTÓK Divertimento Sz113 PERFORMERS: William Hennessy AM, DIRECTOR & VIOLIN David Fung, PIANO
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Recently praised for his “simply gorgeous” playing and “crystalline phrasing” by the Washington Post, pianist David Fung is an ideal match for two of Bach's immaculate keyboard concertos. Program includes Bartók’s folk-flecked Divertimento and music of Telemann & Dvořák. PROGRAM: DVOŘÁK Three Miniatures Op 75a TELEMANN Concerto for four violins TWV54:A1 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 7 in G minor BWV1058 BACH Keyboard Concerto No 4 in A major BWV1055 BARTÓK Divertimento Sz113 PERFORMERS: William Hennessy AM, DIRECTOR & VIOLIN David Fung, PIANO
Find out more »Sydney University Graduate Choir: Gossec – Messe des morts
Tickets: Adults $50 | Pensioners (no Seniors Card) $40 | Children 16 and under & full-time students $25 The Sydney University Graduate Choir presents the premiere performance in Australia of the remarkable Requiem Mass by François Joseph Gossec (1734-1825). Composed in 1760, Gossec’s Requiem made him famous overnight. Having moved from Belgium to Paris as a young musician, Gossec came under the influence of Jean-Philippe Rameau and Carl Stamitz. This Requiem was truly ahead of its time, demonstrating his ability…
Find out more »Orava Quartet: String quartet sensation
The first Australian string quartet invited to sign with Universal Music The Orava Quartet has been hailed by Limelight magazine and The Australian as ‘the most exciting young quartet on the block’, ‘world class’, and ‘the real deal’. Earning a reputation for their thrilling performances, the Quartet bring their unique sound and breathtaking intensity to the classics of the string quartet canon. Selected by Deutsche Grammophon Australia for the label’s first ever recording release, Orava has performed throughout North America, the UAE,…
Find out more »Music At Manly: Masterworks for Cello
Prodigious young cellist Benett Tsai joins forces with his father, pianist Joshua Tsai, to present a programme of some of the most important and demanding works for the cello. As winner of many young performers competitions, Benett is emerging as one of Australia’s leading young cellists, and this will be a very exciting opportunity to hear Benett in recital. The programme includes a J.S. Bach Suite for solo cello, the Second Cello Sonata by Johannes Brahms and Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Tickets: Adult -…
Find out more »Melbourne Musicians presents Mozart’s Piano Concerto in F major
Tickets: Adult $60 | Senior $50 | Student $25 Juilliard-trained pianist Elyane Laussade has embarked on a project of performing every Mozart piano concerto. This is the second of three she will play with The Melbourne Musicians in 2019. PROGRAM HAYDN 12 German Dances (Premiere) MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K.459 DITTERSDORF Symphony in F major Kr.70 HAYDN Symphony No.55 in E flat major ("Schulmeister")
Find out more »ANAM Presents: Beethoven and Bruckner
One of the finest Australian conductors of his generation returns to ANAM to direct two symphonic masterpieces. It is hard not to listen in awe at the vast emotional range of Beethoven’s music, as he takes us from sorrow to joy, all the while overcoming phenomenal personal odds. The Fourth is a symphony of breathtaking lyricism, greatly admired by Berlioz and Schumann, and a perfect companion to Bruckner’s sublime song of spiritual ecstasy, his own Symphony no. 4. This is…
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: 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 »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 »Homage to Gideon Klein – ANAM
In 2019 the world of music celebrates the centenary of one of the most gifted composers to emerge from Czechoslovakia, Gideon Klein, whose career was tragically cut short by the Nazis. The music he produced in Theresienstadt concentration camp – under unimaginable circumstances – is powerful, original and captivating, and shows how greatly he was influenced by Czech master Janáček, whose suite Mládí is a gem of the wind ensemble repertoire. Dvořák’s influence on Janáček’s music was profound: how fitting then to…
Find out more »July 2019
Twilight Concert Series: Ecstatic Dances – Dimity Hall & Julian Smiles in Concert
Tickets: Adult $60 | Senior $50 | Concession $40 Program BACH Two-part Inventions for violin and cello (nos. 4, 13 & 8) EDWARDS Ecstatic Dances VASKS Castillo Interior RAVEL Sonata for violin and cello HINDSON ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8’ Join us for a drink post-concert with the artists About the artists Dimity Hall is well known to national and international audiences as a member of both the Goldner String Quartet and the Australia Ensemble@UNSW with whom she has performed, toured and recorded extensively, to critical acclaim.…
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: Bach in Three
Music from the intricate and abstruse style of the great JS, to the florid and eccentric Emmanuel, to the lyrically lovely Christian.
Find out more »ThoroughBass: Bach in Three
Music from the intricate and abstruse style of the great JS, to the florid and eccentric Emmanuel, to the lyrically lovely Christian.
Find out more »Twilight Concert Series: Four Hands – Ian Munro & Tamara-Anna Cislowska in Concert
Tickets: Adult $60 | Senior $50 | Concession $40 Program MOZART Sonata in D K381 SCHUBERT Fantasy in f minor D940 MOSZKOWSKI Spanish Dances RAVEL Mother Goose Join us for a drink post-concert with the artists About the artists Ian Munro is one of Australia’s most distinguished and awarded musicians with a career that has taken him to thirty countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia. His award in 2003 of Premier Grand Prix at the Queen Elisabeth International…
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
A Gateway to the Sublime – ANAM
In the history of music there can be few examples of a composer ‘exceeding the brief’ with results as astounding as Schubert in his Octet. It was commissioned by one of the composer’s patrons, Count Ferdinand von Troyer, a talented amateur clarinettist who had played in the premiere of Beethoven’s celebrated Septet some 20 years earlier. He suggested Schubert compose a companion piece for Beethoven’s work, which he did faithfully – while also creating one of the richest works in…
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 »Joy & Heartbreak – ANAM Orchestra
Like many wealthy young Europeans of his day, Mendelssohn travelled widely and found musical inspiration on many of his journeys (think of that expressive musical picture, The Hebrides). One country brought him particular pleasure: “This is Italy! And now has begun what I have always thought... to be the supreme joy in life.” Inspired by his sojourn there, the Italian Symphony is sunshine and Chianti in music. Mendelssohn is one of the most frequently performed classical composers of them all, whereas Gideon…
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 »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 »Song Cycles with Sara Macliver – ANAM
Here is a sublime collaboration between one of Australia’s finest sopranos and the pianists of ANAM, in a program which includes two glorious 19th century song cycles. If you love Grieg’s music for Peer Gynt or his piano concerto, you will be entranced by the songs he created about a young woman who is rejected by her lover and finds solace in nature and the powers of the underworld. When Grieg first read the poems which inspired these songs, he…
Find out more »September 2019
ANAM Presents: Petrushka
Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes changed the history of ballet and the history of music too. Stravinsky composed all of his early landmark ballet scores for Diaghilev’s company, including Petrushka. It’s all energy, lyricism, playfulness and pathos, wrapped up in kaleidoscopic orchestral colours; it doesn’t take much imagination to see Petrushka and the Ballerina in their fairground tale of love and jealousy. Romantic pursuit lies at the heart of de Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos also: the miller’s attractive young wife is being…
Find out more »ANAM Presents: Clara
Clara Schumann was one of the great musicians of the 19th century. Acclaimed for her pianism by the crowned heads of Europe in her 20s, she went on to become one of the most respected performers and teachers of her age, in a life in which she was also a composer, wife and muse to Robert Schumann, mother to their eight children and, after Schumann’s death, mentor and muse to Brahms. Her few compositions have a unique, poetic beauty, which…
Find out more »Song Company: Tallis, Hope and Crown
A celebration of the Vernal Equinox in much-cherished choral treasures of the English Renaissance
Find out more »Song Company: Tallis, Hope and Crown
A celebration of the Vernal Equinox in much-cherished choral treasures of the English Renaissance
Find out more »ANAM Presents: LA Philharmonic Wind Quintet
This exploration of classics for wind ensemble sees us in the company of a starry ensemble indeed: leading the ANAM musicians for this program is a group in which every member is a first among equals – a quintet comprising principal players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, including ANAM Horn Faculty Andrew Bain. With these musicians, we’ll be taken on a journey from late 19th-century France –and Gounod’s delicious evocation of the spirit of Mozart – to the United…
Find out more »October 2019
ANAM Presents: The Italian Sound
Umberto Clerici, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Cello, has created this fascinating program, which asks, in his words: “What can be considered an ‘Italian Sound’? Does it come from the precious old Italian string instruments or from the long tradition of opera and bel canto that made Italian music famous around the world?” In exploring this question, Clerici will look at three centuries of music, taking in a jewel of the Italian baroque by Vivaldi, the string quartet Verdi composed…
Find out more »November 2019
ANAM Presents: Beethoven, Haydn & Schubert
Gábor Takács-Nagy is the complete musician; a founding member of the Takács Quartet, he has gone on to become an inspirational conductor and teacher of chamber music performance. In this sumptuous concert, he directs ANAM musicians in a banquet of music from one of the golden ages of music in Vienna. Mozart composed his miraculous Symphony no. 25 when he was just 17; Haydn’s jubilant Symphony no. 90 on the other hand, is a product of the composer’s rich maturity,…
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 »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
Sydney Youth Orchestra: Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet
Tickets: Adult $50 | Concession $25 | Child $25 Performers & Programs The Sydney Youth Orchestra conducted by Alexander Briger AO PROKOFIEV Romeo & Juliet ELGAR 'Enigma' Variations SYO Philharmonic conducted by Brian Buggy OAM BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture op. 80 The 2019 season finale from the Sydney Youth Orchestra brings together young love, a testimony to friendship, and heart-stopping action in a program directed by SYO Chief Conductor Alexander Briger. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been channelled into countless…
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