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April 2019
Lunchtime Concert – Australian String Quartet
PROGRAM: Paterson Quartettsätze Two Movements for String Quartet (SA premiere) Brahms String Quartet, Op. 51 No. 1 in C minor The Australian String Quartet, Elder Hall and Brahms – a combination to cherish! And complementing Brahms’ elegant, refined First Quartet is an exciting new work, performed in South Australia for the first time: Paterson’s Quartettsätze. Entry to this lunchtime concert is available at the door from 12:30pm. If you plan on attending most of the concerts, you could save up…
Find out more »Josie & The Emeralds: Fantasy
Tickets: Adult $35 | Concession $25 Josie and The Emeralds are delighted to welcome Richard Boothby, one of the world’s leading viol players, as guest artist on bass viol for their upcoming concert Fantasy. Richard is co-founder of The Purcell Quartet and Fretwork, the pioneering viol consort, renowned for both Renaissance and contemporary music. Richard is visiting Australia in April, courtesy of the Australian Viola da Gamba Society. This concert with Josie and the Emeralds is his only Sydney appearance.…
Find out more »Australia Ensemble: No Strings Attached
The wonderful colours and personalities of wind instruments are brought to the fore here, celebrating some of the finest chamber music for woodwind.
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
Find out more »Lunchtime Concert – Piano Duo
PERFORMERS: Lucinda Collins piano Konstantin Shamray piano PROGRAM: Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole Lutosławski Variations on a Theme by Paganini Two fabulous pianists combine their skills to bring us Ravel’s colourful Spanish fantasy and Lutosławski’s flamboyant Variations on a Theme by Paganini. This will be a dazzling program that is sure to make the most of our twin Steinways. Entry to this lunchtime concert is available at the door from 12:30pm. If you plan on attending most of the concerts, you could…
Find out more »Scottish and Irish Baroque
TICKETS: Please go to our website or at the door 30 minutes before the concert. The Sydney Consort welcomes to a concert of Scottish & Irish Baroque classical music and folk tunes. In the 18th century Scotland, the traditional instrument, the bagpipe gradually languished from centre stage and gave its place to the Violin. The instrumental challenge of two fiddles and combination with voice was very typical for both Scottish and Irish folk music. The dance rhythm of the Scottish…
Find out more »Balmain Baroque: urban Baroque music
Tickets: Adult $20 | Concession $15. Tickets available on the door. Children are welcome. Balmain Baroque is a 6-piece Baroque group, with soprano/baroque flute, violin, cello, harpsichord and two(!) recorders. They have been playing together since 1995. The group has their own harpsichord, essentially the 7th member of the band. They play at baroque pitch, a semitone lower than modern pitch. Performers: Amanda Muir: Soprano, baroque flute Tony Eyers: recorder Dina Ahmad: recorder Lidia Bara: violin Lucy-Rose Steggles: cello Donn…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
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 »Scottish and Irish Baroque
TICKETS: Please go to our website or at the door 30 minutes before the concert. The Sydney Consort welcomes to a concert of Scottish & Irish Baroque classical music and folk tunes. In the 18th century Scotland, the traditional instrument, the bagpipe gradually languished from centre stage and gave its place to the Violin. The instrumental challenge of two fiddles and combination with voice was very typical for both Scottish and Irish folk music. The dance rhythm of the Scottish…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
Find out more »Piano Pictures
TICKETS: Full $62 / Senior $48 / Concession* $35 / Under 30s* $25 Two modern American classics to open: John Adams’ jubilant Hallelujah Junction, inspired by the name of a truck stop near the California-Nevada border, and a seminal work of minimalism, Steve Reich’s Six Pianos. On the other hand, the epic riff on Chopin’s Prelude by young, New Mexico-born composer Ben Wallace might be called ‘So Chopin walked into a bar, ordered a whiskey and headed straight for the pinball machine.’…
Find out more »Balmain Baroque: urban Baroque music
Tickets: Adult $20 | Concession $15. Tickets available on the door. Children are welcome. Balmain Baroque is a 6-piece Baroque group, with soprano/baroque flute, violin, cello, harpsichord and two(!) recorders. They have been playing together since 1995. The group has their own harpsichord, essentially the 7th member of the band. They play at baroque pitch, a semitone lower than modern pitch. Performers: Amanda Muir: Soprano, baroque flute Tony Eyers: recorder Dina Ahmad: recorder Lidia Bara: violin Lucy-Rose Steggles: cello Donn…
Find out more »Queensland Baroque: Antonio Vivaldi ‘Four Seasons’
Tickets: Adult 'A' Reserve $50 | Adult 'B' Reserve $35 | Concession $25 Queensland Baroque lead by internationally acclaimed Artistic Director, John Foster present a special Mother’s Day Concert. Featuring the timeless, beautiful music of Antonio Vivaldi and the sublime talents of guest soloist, Lathika Vithanage (Baroque Violin) this is a perfect way for you and your mum to spend an afternoon together. Performers: Lathika Vithanage - Baroque Violin Soloist Queensland Baroque John Foster - Artistic Director Program: A selection…
Find out more »Selby & Friends: Love & Devotion
A powerful program presented by three extraordinary performers, this concert explores the music of both Clara and Robert Schumann
Find out more »Australian Harp Quartet Debut
Experience the virtuosity of The Australian Harp Quartet as they debut their first concert series this May. The AHQ is one of the most exciting new ensembles to emerge this year. Comprised of Australia's top harpists: Emily Granger, Julie Kim, Georgia Lowe, and Natalie Wong. Join us on Mother's Day for an exciting afternoon concert with free bubbly, tea and coffee. To make this day even more special, invite your mum! The program will include original works by Harriet Adie,…
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 »Bach in the Dark
Enjoy an hour of great music and wine in an intimate and engaging listening environment. ‘Cellist Rachel Scott is joined by clarinettist Deborah de Graaff for the second concert in the 2019 series. Bach in the Dark is a series of unconventional classical music concerts featuring 'cellist Rachel Scott and a changing roster of guest artists. The series is held in the crypt of St James church, providing an intimate and unique listening environment ideally suited to an engaging and…
Find out more »Willoughby Chamber Series: Shattered Restraint(s)
Featuring Willoughby Symphony’s 2019 Composer-in-Residence Kate Moore, with selections from her ethereal dance cycle “Restraint(s).”
Find out more »Australian Harp Quartet Debut
Experience the virtuosity of The Australian Harp Quartet as they debut their first concert series this May. The AHQ is one of the most exciting new ensembles to emerge this year. Comprised of Australia's top harpists: Emily Granger, Julie Kim, Georgia Lowe, and Natalie Wong. Join us on Mother's Day for an exciting afternoon concert with free bubbly, tea and coffee. To make this day even more special, invite your mum! The program will include original works by Harriet Adie,…
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Caro String Quartet
Join Caro String Quartet for an afternoon of "dynamic energy and passion" as they perform music by Maurice Ravel, Karol Szymanowski, and Erich Korngold. About the program: SZYMANOVSKI String Quartet no.2 is an exciting work written in 1927, drawn from folk music RAVEL String Quartet in F Major (1903) - the most famous work in our program is a sublime piece of music KORNGOLD String Quartet no.2 in E flat major Op.26 evokes Viennese charm About the performers: First established in 2009, Sydney-based…
Find out more »Soirées Musicales Quintette: Night Music and Folksongs
Tickets (including post-performance refreshments): Adult $40 | Concession $35 | Student $20 | Family (2 + 2) $100 Door sales - cash only The romantic era delighted in the allure of night-time and its connotations of romance, mystery and serenity. For the first time we perform music in the Russian language, some serenade-like partsongs by Tchaikovsky and Arensky, bracketed with a piano nocturne from the ‘Soirées Musicales’ collection by Anton Rubinstein. Nocturnal themes also pervade the Opus 92 set of…
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 »Sydney Mozart Society: Selby & Friends
Kathryn Selby is one of Australia’s most acclaimed chamber musicians. Her reputation as a soloist and ensemble pianist is formidable.
Find out more »Bach in the Dark
Enjoy an hour of great music and wine in an intimate and engaging listening environment. ‘Cellist Rachel Scott is joined by clarinettist Deborah de Graaff for the second concert in the 2019 series. Bach in the Dark is a series of unconventional classical music concerts featuring 'cellist Rachel Scott and a changing roster of guest artists. The series is held in the beautiful 'nolon on lovel' gallery, providing an intimate and unique listening environment ideally suited to an engaging and…
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: 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: 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 »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 »City Recital Hall presents: Concertos on Fire
Tickets: Adult $59 | Concession $55 | City Recital Hall Member $49 | Under 30s $30 Concertos on Fire explores dynamic new directions in classical concert presentation. This concert features one of Australia’s most well-known violin concertos: Maninyas by Ross Edwards alongside the premiere of a brand new concerto Tale of The Firebird composed by Chloé Charody for fire-taming violinist Sonja Schebeck and interdisciplinary acrobatic ensemble The Freestyle Orchestra. Fire becomes an instrument of the ensemble, musicians fly and music…
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 »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 »Bach B Minor Mass – ANAM
A comment under a YouTube video can speak more directly than an elegantly written program note. About Bach’s B minor Mass, one user has written: “Probably the best piece of music EVER written, and I’m not even exaggerating, I’m being serious.” Completed the year before Bach’s death, the Mass is one of the most inspiring pieces of music ever composed. As musicologist Alberto Basso has put it: “The Mass in B minor is the consecration of a whole life.” The…
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 »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 »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 »Flinders Quartet: Shostakovich – through the lens of the string quartet
Selected movements from the string quartets of Shostakovich, curated by Flinders Quartet with dramaturge, Richard Piper
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…
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