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April 2019
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 »The Hourglass Ensemble: Starry, Starry Night
Tickets: Adult $58 | Concession $40 | Children under 13 $20 Sydney’s audience-friendly contemporary chamber ensemble, The Hourglass Ensemble, will present a concert featuring beloved classics and new Australian work as part of their Autumn Season: Starry, Starry Night features lullabies, nocturnes and songs for sleep. Artistic Director of The Hourglass Ensemble Andrew Kennedy is passionate about making the chamber concert less abstract, giving the uninitiated listener an accessible guide to the music. “During the concert, I will explain the…
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 Hourglass Ensemble: Everything I Touch
Tickets: Adult $30 | Concession $20 | Children under 13 Free Sydney’s audience-friendly contemporary chamber ensemble, The Hourglass Ensemble, presents Everything I Touch, a concert featuring an unusual and beguiling blend of new commissions and beloved masterpieces. In line with their mission to play new and recent music alongside familiar late Romantic pieces, the repertoire includes everything from Brahms to Kats-Chenin with four world premieres of new compositions including ‘Everything I Touch - Concerto for flute and chamber orchestra’ by…
Find out more »May 2019
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 »The Hourglass Ensemble: Everything I Touch
Tickets: Adult $58 | Concession $40 | Children under 13 $20 Sydney’s audience-friendly contemporary chamber ensemble, The Hourglass Ensemble, presents Everything I Touch, a concert featuring an unusual and beguiling blend of new commissions and beloved masterpieces. In line with their mission to play new and recent music alongside familiar late Romantic pieces, the repertoire includes everything from Brahms to Kats-Chenin with four world premieres of new compositions including ‘Everything I Touch - Concerto for flute and chamber orchestra’ by…
Find out more »Bel a cappella: Sun Dogs
Celebrating Anthony Pasquill’s 10th year as Musical Director, Bel a cappella present James MacMillan’s five movement work, Sun-Dogs
Find out more »Bel a cappella 2019 Season
Bel a cappella is a chamber choir of 25-30 experienced singers who are dedicated to the performance of diverse, high quality choral music in fine venues around Sydney.
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…
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River City Voices: Carmina Burana
Join us for River City Voices' inaugural performance of Carl Orff's popular blockbuster, Carmina Burana! What's not to love about hearing 100 voices sing the spine-tingling opening chorus "O Fortuna" in all its dramatic glory! Established in 2018, River City Voices is Parramatta's new symphony choir that seeks to give local audiences access to large-scale choral experiences closer to home! This exciting performance under the baton of renowned conductor Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith, represents the culmination of a fun and inspiring "Come &…
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 »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 »ARCO: Mannheim Rocket
Mannheim Rocket transports listeners back to the explosive birth of the modern symphonic style of Mannheim in the late 18th-century.
Find out more »Pacific Opera: Mother’s Day Prelude in Tea Concert
Tickets: Adult $49 | Concession $32 | Under 30 $32 | Student $22 | Child under 12 $17 Simon Kenway presents a concert of the most beautiful and inspiring music celebrating all kinds of Mums this Mothers' Day. Featuring the talented Young and Associate Artists from Pacific Opera, you can expect to hear arias, duets and ensembles from opera and music theatre, and a selection of poignant artsongs written by celebrated composers. Bring a special lady in your life and…
Find out more »ARCO: Voyage 2 – Cultural & Historical Contexts
ARCO shares the stage with Jane Rutter and her Third Culture World Music Ensemble.
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 2019series. 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 accessible…
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 2019series. 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 accessible…
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 »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 »Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra: Kids’ Proms – Musical Sea Adventures
Tickets: Individual entry (adult or child) $12 | Family of four $40 (A family of four ticket must include at least one child.) The annual KPO Kids' Proms concert is an excellent opportunity for the whole family to come together and go on an exciting and amazing adventure through some much loved classical music masterpieces as well as some well-known favourites. The program is devised for children under 10 years. This is a fun-filled afternoon of entertaining magical music that…
Find out more »Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra: Kids’ Proms – Musical Sea Adventures
Tickets: Individual entry (adult or child) $12 | Family of four $40 (A family of four ticket must include at least one child.) The annual KPO Kids' Proms concert is an excellent opportunity for the whole family to come together and go on an exciting and amazing adventure through some much loved classical music masterpieces as well as some well-known favourites. The program is devised for children under 10 years. This is a fun-filled afternoon of entertaining magical music that…
Find out more »The Marais Project: Time & Seasons – A Prelude in Tea concert
Tickets (includes afternoon tea served from 2:30pm): Adult $49 | Concession $32 | Under 30 $32 | Student $22 | Child under 12 $17 "Times and Seasons" celebrates The Marais Project's 20 years as one of Australia's most creative early music ensembles. The concert features international guest, Swedish gambist, Leif Henrikson, and Eriksson's accomplished electric viola da gamba ensemble, Elysian Fields, in a concert that explores the many aspects of the viola da gamba. The Marais Project - works for…
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 »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 »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 »Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra: NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition Finals Concert
Tickets: Early bird prices - Standard $40 | Pensioner $30 | Student/junior $12 From 29 May - Standard $50 | Pensioner $35 | Student/junior $12 6 individual finalists in the 2019 NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition and the winners of the Multiple Concerto section will perform their selected concerto movement with orchestra on Saturday 29 June, competing for prizes and opportunities in this prestigious annual event. Regarded as a stepping stone to national and international success, the competition has been…
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 »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 »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
Twilight Concert Series: You’re gonna love tomorrow
Tickets: Adult $60 | Senior $50 | Concession $40 Program Musical Director Harrison Collins leads us through an intimate hour of cabaret, exploring dreams and passions. Consisting of solos, duets, and ensemble numbers from the much loved and critically acclaimed Broadway musicals Follies, Kiss Me Kate, City of Angels, Jesus Christ Superstar, You’re gonna love tomorrow will feature the best of Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cole Porter. Join us for a drink with the artist post-concert The artists Musical…
Find out more »LIME2: UNSW Wind Symphony
The Wind Symphony provides repertoire, largely dates from after 1900, with arrangements of works from all eras and styles
Find out more »Willoughby Chamber Series: Bows of Youth
Presenting a new arrangement by 2017 YCA winner Ella Macens, before concluding with Mendelssohn’s mighty Octet.
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 $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 »Bel a cappella: Concerto for Choir
Alfred Schnittke's Choir Concerto is unquestionably one of the choral masterpieces of the 20th century.
Find out more »Sydney University Graduate Choir: Puccini – Messa di Gloria & 2019 Joan Carden Award
Tickets: Adults $50 | Pensioners (no Seniors Card) $40 | Children 16 and under & full-time students $25 Sydney University Graduate Choir's August concert features Giacomo Puccini’s youthful Messa di Gloria. This work, written as a graduation exercise, already reveals much of the mastery of his mature operatic works. It is thus a fitting work for a concert featuring the finalists of the 2019 Joan Carden Award competition. These exceptional young singers, at the beginning of their careers, will demonstrate…
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 »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: 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.
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