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Pepe Newton

In Paradisum: Sydney Chamber Choir shines in earthly and heavenly light

Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum May 30, 2026, St James’ Church, Sydney, NSW I was intrigued and excited by the prospect of Sydney Chamber Choir’s In Paradisum, on paper we were promised a journey from Baltic and Nordic stillness to Australian warmth, through faith, light and love. All true. But the program only fully revealed itself in performance as,

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Sydney Chamber Choir | In Paradisum

From the stillness of Baltic and Nordic landscapes to the luminous clarity of Australian skies… …this program traces a musical journey through faith, light and love. Sacred works from Estonia, Norway and Sweden — including Arvo Pärt’s Bogoroditse Dyevo, Galina Grigorjeva’s In Paradisum and Edvard Grieg’s Ave Maris Stella — evoke a spirituality that is both intimate and timeless, while

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Daniel Kaan

AVÉ concert launches new album of Australian works – immensely enjoyable

AVÉ: Australian Vocal Ensemble | Thought is surrounded by a halo 10 August, 2025, The Neilson, ACO, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW VOICES: Katie Noonan: Soprano and Artistic Director Fiona Campbell: Mezzo-soprano Louis Hurley: Tenor Andrew O’Connor: Bass-baritone PROGRAM: Andrew O’Connor: Thought is Surrounded by a Halo Perry Joyce: My father’s gun Joseph Twist:  Refugee Thomas Luis de Victoria: Heth Misericordiae

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Molly Jenkins

Robert McIntyre presents a striking compositional voice in Our Duty to Care

Robert McIntyre and Changing Wilds Ensemble | Our Duty to Care August 2, 2025, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC After a debut performance in April 2023, Robert McIntyre’s Our Duty to Care has quickly reached its third instalment. Taking place inside the exquisite Primrose Potter Salon at Melbourne Recital Centre, the titular song-cycle was amongst a programme of modern works by

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Chamber Choir – Five Composers, Fifty Years, One Word: Love

Sydney Chamber Choir | 50th Anniversary Gala July 5, 2025 City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir Sam Allchurch – Conductor Brooke Window – Soprano Richard Butler – Tenor Nicola Bell – Oboe/Cor anglais Richard Shaw – Clarinet Andrew Barnes – Bassoon Euan Harvey – French horn Emily Granger – Harp Jess Ciampa – Percussion What an extraordinary gift

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Heidi Hereth

The exuberant joy of Bel a cappella’s ‘O Sing!’

Bel a cappella | O Sing! 29 March, 2025, St Augustine’s Church, Balmain, NSW “O Sing!” – This is what Bel a cappella do – they have been doing it for 30 years, and they do it very well. They did it again with exuberant joy in this beautifully curated program dedicated to the joys of choral singing. The concert

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Daniel Kaan

The Song Company’s Journey to Finisterre a profound experience

The Song Company: Journeying to Finisterre 15 March 2025, St Philip’s Church, Sydney, NSW Program: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat – O Virgo Splendens Tomas Luis de Victoria – O quam gloriosum Codex Calixtinus – Congaudeant Catholici Juan del Encina – ¡O Reyes Magos Benditos! Alfonso X El Sabio – Cantigas de Santa Maria: Entre Ave e Eva Francisco Guerrero –

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Wattleseed Ensemble’s musical storytelling of the highest calibre

Wattleseed Ensemble | The Orchid and the Wasp 15th February 2025, Nexus Arts, Adelaide, SA Wattleseed Ensemble is a modern string trio led by co-artistic directors Meg Cohen (violin) and Katie Yap (viola), with cellist David Moran. Despite being based in Melbourne and competing with other major events on this particular Saturday evening (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, comedian Aaron Chen, and

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Daniel Kaan

The Song Company adds their own wonderful concert to the Christmas tradition

The Song Company | Hark! November 29, 2024, St Philip’s Church, Sydney, NSW THE SONG COMPANY Susannah Lawergren & Amy Moore, Sopranos Jessica O’Donoghue, Mezzo Soprano Timothy Reynolds, Tenor Hayden Barrington, Baritone Andrew O’Connor, Bass PROGRAM Bob Chilcott – The Sleeping Child Anne Cawrse  – Love is Born/Lux Aeterna Andrew Smith – Veni Emmanuel Herbert Howells – Long, long ago Brooke

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Daniel Kaan

The Song Company, “ecstatically sung; a thrilling performance”

The Song Company| Fire Songs and Madrigals 21 September 2024, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW ARTISTS Susannah Lawergren – Soprano Amy Moore – Soprano Christie Anderson – Mezzo Soprano Timothy Reynolds – Tenor Hayden Barrington – Baritone James Fox – Bass PROGRAM Carl Crossin Part Needle, Part Thread Morten Lauridsen 6 Madrigali “Fire Songs” Claudio Monteverdi Ecco mormorar l’onde

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Daniel Brace

Katie Yap and the Bowerbird Collective left us like jelly in the knees

Katie Yap | Multitudes: Passenger Pigeons with Bowerbird Collective November 10, 2023, Tempo Rubato I had a friend once who listed their occupation as “concert goer”. While most of us don’t see being an audience member as a full time job, those on the stage sure do. So it’s a special time in a musician’s career when they are actively

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Tony Burke

A memorable afternoon with North Sydney Symphony

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Concert 3 September 24, 2023, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney The combination of Verbrugghen Hall with its great acoustics and the talented North Sydney Symphony Orchestra proved serendipitous to say the least with a beautifully balanced program. As so often happens, Mussorgsky never got to hear his Night on the Bare Mountain. He thought of it as

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Alan Holley

Virtuosic performances at 2023 Sydney Chamber Music Festival

Sydney Chamber Music Festival 2023 | Bridget Bolliger with Vladimir Gorbach and friends 10th September, 2023,  Manly Art Gallery and Museum Bridget Bolliger – Flute     Vladimir Gorbach – Guitar     Andrew Jezek – Viola    Tim Nankervis – Cello On a perfect ‘northern beaches of Sydney’ Sunday afternoon an intimate concert of new and old music was given as part of

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Composer Feature: Anne Cawrse – Advice to a Girl

Advice to a Girl Music by Anne Cawrse Album released February 2022 With thanks to Chamber Music Adelaide classikON hears from composer Anne Cawrse about her first album…   Advice to a Girl is my first full-length album of original music, featuring works composed for various combinations of strings, guitar, and voice, written between 2004 and 2021. As is often

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Pepe Newton

Claire Edwardes and Nick Russoniello, real, live musical enigmas

Just down the street from Sydney’s Green Square station, is a funkily designed space with high ceilings, terrazzo flooring and tessellated tiles, to me Mecca coffee screams out “make music in me!” and that is exactly what Vladimir Fanshil, co-founder of Live at Yours, is doing. Partnering with Mecca, and with the support of City of Sydney, Live at Yours

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