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BackStage Music | Big Noters
Woodburn Creatives - Waterloo 82 Cope St, Waterloo, NSW, AustraliaA showcase of amazing Indigenous talent, sharing their musical journeys. The term “Big Noters” suggests that a person is too sure themselves or thinks they are better than. This is not the case with this amazing group of Aboriginal musicians, quite the opposite. Big Noters refers to the music of which we play and perform […]
SSO | Spinifex Gum & The Sydney Symphony
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaSpinifex Gum combines the beauty of a choir of young Indigenous female singers from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait with contemporary songwriting that speaks to issues of our time. This is a unique collaboration between Marliya of Gondwana Choirs and Felix Riebl and Ollie McGill of The Cat Empire. In this breathtaking concert, […]
Australian Youth Orchestra | Ngapa William Cooper
Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra William Herbert Place, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaComposed and written by Nigel Westlake, Lior and Lou Bennett, with additional creative lyric content by Sarah Gory. Join the Australian Youth Orchestra in Sydney and Canberra as they perform three sweeping works inspired by the tenacity of the human spirit in times of darkness. Ngapa William Cooper was born out of a rich collaboration […]
Australian Youth Orchestra | Ngapa William Cooper
Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaComposed and written by Nigel Westlake, Lior and Lou Bennett, with additional creative lyric content by Sarah Gory. Join the Australian Youth Orchestra in Sydney and Canberra as they perform three sweeping works inspired by the tenacity of the human spirit in times of darkness. Ngapa William Cooper was born out of a rich collaboration […]
Flinders Quartet | Julian Yu’s Bach with Dong Ma’s Erhu, and Brenda Gifford’s “Dissipate”
Macedon Music Lowland Farm 70 Brougham Road Mount Macedon, VIC, AustraliaA marriage of musicians and culture matched with times past, present, and future to create a soundscape that is unexpectedly homogenous and extraordinarily beautiful. Dong Ma's virtuosity on the erhu is perfectly matched with Julian Yu's arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and together they create a mesmerising performance that transcends time and cultural barriers. Yuin […]
Desert Song Festival | 2023
Alice Springs NT, AustraliaThe roar is at its loudest since 2013, as we build up to the regathering of the Desert Song global family of artists this coming September in the Desert Heart of Australia. From India, Africa, the Pacific, Europe and from across Australia they will descend on ‘The Festival Town’ for an intercultural musical extravaganza! The Shubhendra […]
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | Carmina Burana
Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia“O Fortuna!” – fate and fortune across the oceans and across the centuries. Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is the blockbuster of the choral repertoire, the kind of music guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. Its worldly – and occasionally naughty – texts were assembled by mediæval monks, but its flamboyant music is barely […]
Bach Akademie Australia | Bach a Child of the Stars
The Great Hall, University of Sydney Science Road, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaTo truly understand a culture, we must explore its relationship to the land, but also to the skies. The land and sky are as one, forever connected. It is with a spirit of connectivity that we present this program of music inspired by the heavenly body that both J.S. Bach and the First Nations peoples […]
Bach Akademie Australia | Bach a Child of the Stars
St Finbars, Glenbrook 46 Levy St, Glenbrook, NSW, AustraliaTo truly understand a culture, we must explore its relationship to the land, but also to the skies. The land and sky are as one, forever connected. It is with a spirit of connectivity that we present this program of music inspired by the heavenly body that both J.S. Bach and the First Nations peoples […]
Bach Akademie Australia | Bach a Child of the Stars
Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood 94a Archer Street, Chatswood, NSW, AustraliaTo truly understand a culture, we must explore its relationship to the land, but also to the skies. The land and sky are as one, forever connected. It is with a spirit of connectivity that we present this program of music inspired by the heavenly body that both J.S. Bach and the First Nations peoples […]