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February 2019
World Premiere – Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story
TICKETS: $29.25 – Adults, Children $18.90 (4yrs -13yrs), Kids under 4 – Free. Mountain Concerts and Scenic World Blue Mountains are thrilled to present the world premiere of Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story. Held at Scenic World in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story is an original composition by acclaimed composer Ian Munro based on the children’s book, Leonard the Lyrebird. Written by Jodie McLeod and illustrated by Eloise Short Design, both Blue Mountains…
Find out more »World Premiere – Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story
TICKETS: $29.25 – Adults, Children $18.90 (4yrs -13yrs), Kids under 4 – Free. Mountain Concerts and Scenic World Blue Mountains are thrilled to present the world premiere of Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story. Held at Scenic World in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story is an original composition by acclaimed composer Ian Munro based on the children’s book, Leonard the Lyrebird. Written by Jodie McLeod and illustrated by Eloise Short Design, both Blue Mountains…
Find out more »World Premiere – Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story
TICKETS: $29.25 – Adults, Children $18.90 (4yrs -13yrs), Kids under 4 – Free. Mountain Concerts and Scenic World Blue Mountains are thrilled to present the world premiere of Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story. Held at Scenic World in the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, Leonard the Lyrebird: A Musical Story is an original composition by acclaimed composer Ian Munro based on the children’s book, Leonard the Lyrebird. Written by Jodie McLeod and illustrated by Eloise Short Design, both Blue Mountains…
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Quartet
Impressed by his unique and engaging concept of sound and gift of musical architecture, Flinders asked Matthew to choose which works best pair with his compositional voice.
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Quartet
Impressed by his unique and engaging concept of sound and gift of musical architecture, Flinders asked Matthew to choose which works best pair with his compositional voice.
Find out more »Flinders Quartet: Quartet
Impressed by his unique and engaging concept of sound and gift of musical architecture, Flinders asked Matthew to choose which works best pair with his compositional voice.
Find out more »Jovian Worlds
Laureate of the Paganini Competition and former first violin of the famed Brodsky Quartet, Sydney Symphony concertmaster Andrew Haveron is one of the most accomplished and sought after violinists on the planet. A masterpiece even among Tchaikovsky’s masterpieces, the Violin Concerto in D is the ideal vehicle for a violinist so utterly at home in Romantic repertoire. Offering both pyrotechnic virtuosity and melting beauty, don’t miss this intimate and fiery journey into the Russian soul. What could compliment such astonishing…
Find out more »March 2019
ANAM Opening Concert
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 This festive opening concert to the 2019 ANAM Season begins with not one but two fanfares: Richard Strauss’, created for the inaugural Vienna Philharmonic Ball in 1924, and the equally spectacular one from Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. The festivities then move from multiple brass to multiple pianos for British composer Graham Fitkin’s funky Flak, which has a neat trick up its sleeve – it only uses the pianos’ white notes. But there’s…
Find out more »Jovian Worlds
Laureate of the Paganini Competition and former first violin of the famed Brodsky Quartet, Sydney Symphony concertmaster Andrew Haveron is one of the most accomplished and sought after violinists on the planet. A masterpiece even among Tchaikovsky’s masterpieces, the Violin Concerto in D is the ideal vehicle for a violinist so utterly at home in Romantic repertoire. Offering both pyrotechnic virtuosity and melting beauty, don’t miss this intimate and fiery journey into the Russian soul. What could compliment such astonishing…
Find out more »20th Century Masters – ANAM
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 This brass-centred showcase focuses on music by four 20th century masters, including rarely-played music by Ravel’s contemporary Albert Roussel. You’ll also experience four ages of Stravinsky; his 1950s Septet, which marked a bold change in his compositional priorities; one of his happiest works of the 1920s, his Octet; his gentle, youthful Pastorale and his Symphonies of Wind Instruments. Hindemith’s Konzertmusik is a piano concerto in all but name, in…
Find out more »ThoroughBass: The Bach-Abel London Series
Sample a fragment of the highly successful Bach-Abel London series with Thoroughbass
Find out more »The Tasman Ensemble: Tony Chen Lin & Christina Lieberwirth-Morris
The Tasman Ensemble is an exciting new collaboration between New Zealand pianist Tony Chen Lin and Australian violinist Christina Lieberwirth-Morris
Find out more »TMO 2019 Met Concert #1 – A Night At The Movies
Experience The Power Of Blockbuster Movie Music With A Live Orchestra! The Metropolitan Orchestra will showcase massive orchestral hits from some of the biggest movies of all time in their first concert of 2019 titled “A Night At The Movies”. This power-packed performance, which will be presented by TMO Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, will feature music from blockbuster cinema productions including Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Platoon, Dunkirk, The King’s Speech, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Batman, ET, Star Trek…
Find out more »ThoroughBass: The Bach-Abel London Series
Sample a fragment of the highly successful Bach-Abel London series with Thoroughbass
Find out more »Australia Ensemble: Lunchtime Concert
Bask in the beautiful sounds of one of the country’s leading chamber ensembles, as the Australia Ensemble present a free lunch hour concert.
Find out more »Time Travelling for Winds and Brass – ANAM
TICKETS: Full $35 / Senior $35 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 Under the direction of Stefan Dohr, Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, this program takes us on a journey from Mozart’s Vienna to 21st-century Paris; for, as Romantic as they are, the works by the young Richard Strauss, and Liszt’s pupil Joachim Raff, are infused with the spirit of Mozart’s wind music. Berio’s piece is a set of fractured fairy tales for speaker and wind quintet:…
Find out more »Musica Borealis/Australis : Nordic Baroque and Folk
TICKETS: Available online or at the door - $25 / $15, children under 12 free Musica Borealis/Australis will take audiences on a celestial journey through time and place, exploring the baroque and traditional folk music of the Nordic countries. The north wind has blown our special guest violist Krishna Nagaraja (Italy/Finland) to this side of the globe, and together with The Muses’ Delight, will explore a colourful program combining well known and rarely heard baroque composers, as well as Krishna’s…
Find out more »Australia Ensemble: The Age of Steam
With the Industrial Revolution in full swing, art and philosophy were free to investigate grandly romantic ideals, and many of the most famous chamber pieces stem from this time.
Find out more »Sounds of Now
Sounds of Now is a new project by Elmac Creative. Sounds of Now is a vehicle to present quality artists and their original music in a focused concert setting. No bar, no food, no coffee machines, (no election results) just great sound, great lighting and a great focus for artist and audience alike. Series 1 is a concert of highly original art music featuring two unique ensembles: Paul Cutlan String Project will perform Cutlan’s recent work The Eleventh Hour, alongside…
Find out more »Sydney Youth Orchestra: Janáček & Brahms
This is a take-no-prisoners program of big sounds and big emotions: classical music designed to stir the soul and placate no-one.
Find out more »ARCO: Madness & Confrontation
ARCO features an impressive line-up of Australian and international soloists possessing technical virtuosity and deep commitment to the music.
Find out more »Bowral Autumn Music Festival: Stefan Cassomenos
BAMF are thrilled to welcome Prize Winner of the prestigious International Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn and Grand Finalist of The Rhodes International Piano Competition, Stefan Cassomenos
Find out more »Bowral Autumn Music Festival: ARCO Soloists
Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra soloists specializes in the historically informed performance of late 18th to the early 20th-century repertoire.
Find out more »Shostakovich, Raff and Brahms
Three works showing the full dramatic, virtuosic and emotional possibilities of chamber music: Shostakovich’s theatrical, short octet; Raff's joyous Octet, and Brahms’ youthful and sonorous second sextet. A performance of enthralling energy and compelling intimacy. PROGRAM: SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet Op 11 RAFF Octet in C major Op 176 BRAHMS Sextet No 2 in G major Op 36 PERFORMERS: Australian Octet
Find out more »April 2019
Classical
We think that turning 50 qualifies us for amateur orchestra royalty, so we are kicking off our birthday year in regal style with Handel’s Zadok the Priest, performed in celebration of every English coronation since 1727. The classical celebration continues with Haydn’s Symphony no.104 (“The London”) and his popular Trumpet Concerto. Finally, Prokoviev’s Classical Symphony which he wrote in the style of Haydn. Joining us for this classical celebration concert will be our long-time collaborators, the wonderful Excelsia Choir. Strathfield Symphony…
Find out more »Classical
We think that turning 50 qualifies us for amateur orchestra royalty, so we are kicking off our birthday year in regal style with Handel’s Zadok the Priest, performed in celebration of every English coronation since 1727. The classical celebration continues with Haydn’s Symphony no.104 (“The London”) and his popular Trumpet Concerto. Finally, Prokoviev’s Classical Symphony which he wrote in the style of Haydn. Joining us for this classical celebration concert will be our long-time collaborators, the wonderful Excelsia Choir. Strathfield Symphony…
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
Find out more »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
Find out more »July 2019
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.
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