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June 2019
Twilight Musical Dialogues: Musical Kin – Husband & Wife
Tickets: Adult $50 | Concession $35 Both stemming from musical families, husband and wife Ami Williamson and Clemens Leske join Artistic Director Sally Walker to share part of their artistic lives with us, with works by composers with extensive family trees: the Bach, Mozart, Schumann and Williamson families, including some of Ami’s original songs. “The family that plays together, stays together”. You will have heard of Bach, Schumann, Mozart and Mendelssohn, but have you heard of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Clara…
Find out more »Winter Gala: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Tickets: Adult $60 | Senior $50 | Concession $40 The Music Performance Unit’s inaugural Winter Gala features Australian guest soprano Sara Macliver and Australia Ensemble pianist Ian Munro in a program all about women. Macliver is one of Australia’s most popular and versatile artists, appearing in operas, concert and recital performances and on numerous recordings. She most recently appeared with the Australia Ensemble in a program including the premiere of Ian Munro’s commissioned work Three Birds. The program will include…
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 »Art Song Canberra: Venus Unwrapped
Individual tickets: $15 - $35 A concert in Art Song Canberra's the Season of Song series, with Sarahlouise Owens (soprano) and Natalia Tkachenko (piano). An exploration through the largely overlooked repertoire of female composers throughout history… A slice of what women have created, and are only now being increasingly acknowledged. Works from the 18th century onwards, featuring works by Lang, Rich, Greenaway, Viardot, Malibran, Tailleferre, Boulanger, Chaminade and Mendelssohn.
Find out more »Plexus Collective: Psalmodic
Tickets: $50 adults | $40 concession PLEXUS heralds its newly minted choral ensemble, Vox Plexus, as guest artists for a world premiere arrangement of Stravinsky’s epic neoclassical masterpiece Symphony of Psalms, a Russian émigré’s response to the atheism of his motherland. Of the same decade, but from the opposite pole of the Soviet aesthetic sphere are drawn selections from Shostakovich’s lush Suites for Jazz Orchestra, in a world premiere reimagining for PLEXUS. Shostakovich’s onetime pupil Galina Ustvolskaya was later acknowledged…
Find out more »Austral Indigo: Threads Through Time
Tickets: Early Bird Adult (available until 23 June) $40 | Early Bird Concession (available until 23 June) $30 | Standard Adult $45 | Standard Concession $35 A complimentary glass of wine is included in your ticket price. Experience the premier talents of music group Austral Indigo and get in the mood for a great night out with sumptuous music and complimentary glass of wine. Austral Indigo will take you on a journey through time and what a journey it is! Be transported from…
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 »The Seraphim Trio – A Prelude in Tea concert
Single Tickets: Adult $49 | Concession/Under 30 $32 | Student $22 | Child $17. Afternoon tea included - served from 2:30pm. The Seraphim Trio return to North Sydney’s spectacular Independent Theatre this June to present a mouth-watering concert of nostalgic European Romantic music – with an Australian twist! Plus the theatre’s legendary afternoon tea included as part of the popular Sunday afternoon “Prelude in Tea” series. Smetana, the father of Czech music, forms the centrepiece of Seraphim’s first concert for…
Find out more »July 2019
Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
Find out more »Sydney inSpires presents: Organ recital with Thomas Ospital
Tickets: All tickets $10; free for Sydney inSpires conference registrants Titulaire of the grand organ at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris, Organist in Residence at Maison de la Radio (Radio France Concert Hall) and recently appointed Harmony Tutor at the Paris Conservatoire, Thomas Ospital is a young artist who has quickly earned a place amongst the world’s finest concert organists. He was awarded First Prize at the 2009 International Competition of Organ in Saragossa, Spain, the Duruflé-Prize and the Audience Prize…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
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 »Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
Find out more »Sydney inSpires presents: Prom Praise
Tickets: $29-$79 Under the energetic, dynamic direction of conductor Dr Noël Tredinnick, Prom Praise is a joyful fusion of classical and contemporary music performance with worship. In this year’s Prom Praise at Sydney Town Hall, CityAlight, Trevor Hodge, the National Youth Choir of Australia, and the RSCM Festival Choir will be accompanied by the Australian Gospel Orchestra, featuring Thomas Ospital (Organist of Saint-Eustache Church Paris) on the Town Hall Organ, bringing you a marvelous chorus of worship. This unique event…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: From Russia with Love
Selby & Friends takes listeners on a musical tour of composers who were influenced by Russia, either by having been born and bred there or receiving patronage or assistance from Russian nobles.
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 »August 2019
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 »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 »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 »Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
Find out more »September 2019
Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: The Game Changers
Exploring composers whose influence made a significant impact upon the world of classical music is the premise behind this extraordinary program of sonatas and trios by Kats-Chernin, Ravel, Britten and Dvorak.
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 »Thoroughbass presents The Toybox
Too good not to reprise, Thoroughbass' The Toybox returns in September
Find out more »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 »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: Lunch Hour 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 »Australia Ensemble: Guilty Pleasures
Australia Ensemble performs a favourite commission, Guilty Pleasures by John Peterson.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »November 2019
Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »Soirées Musicales Quintette: Endings and Beginnings
Tickets (including post-performance refreshments): Adult $40 | Concession $35 | Student $20 | Family (2 + 2) $100 Door sales – cash only This program features works from key turning points in their composers’ lives, demonstrating that as one phase passes, another begins. In 1849, not long before illness shortened his prolific career, Schumann produced nine sets of choral songs, and also the wonderfully varied ‘Spanisches Liebeslieder’, which is his final vocal ensemble work with piano. By then Fauré was…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Beethoven’s Back!
Selby & Friends’ 2019 season finale revisits the great master with a return to the music of all-Beethoven by popular demand.
Find out more »Plexus Collective: Paracosm
Tickets: $50 adults | $40 concession PLEXUS is joined by esteemed soloists Daniel Carison, Deborah Cheetham and Liane Keegan, as well as guest instrumentalists, conductor Michael Dahlenburg and newly formed choral ensemble Vox Plexus, as it inhabits the possessed paracosm of John of Patmos in his instant of apocalyptic epiphany, with Stefan Cassomenos’ Requiem for the End of Time. Combining English texts from the Book of Revelation with the Latin Mass for the Dead, this twenty-first-century Requiem was glowingly received…
Find out more »Live at Lunch: German Greats, Dutch Masters & French Préludes
Tickets: Adult $33 | Concession $30 | Add lunch for $17.50 Classical legends pianist Gerard Willems and flutist Jane Rutter re-visit their early FM pop-chart success with selections from Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Appassionata Sonata and more. Sydney Symphony Orchestra principal piccolo player Rosamund Plummer adds a double flute sparkle to the concert. This is the last of seven concerts in the Live at Lunch 2019 series.
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