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CIMF’s MOSSO: a feast of great new music

Canberra International Music Festival | MOSSO: music in motion 2 May, 2026, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, ACT An early and chilly start to Day 4 of the Canberra International Music Festival, with a festival within a festival at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). MOSSO: music in motion was a feast of great new music, moving image

Jacqui Smith May 3, 2026

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CIMF Folk and Tango – Chamber music of the highest order

Canberra International Music Festival | Folk and Tango MAY 1, 2026, Manning Clark Hall, ACT ARTISTS James Crabb – accordion Lina Tur Bonet – violin David Campbell – double bass Australian String Quartet Dale Barltrop — violin Francesca Hiew — violin Christopher Carolinge — viola Michael Dahlenburg — cello Ensemble Liaison David Griffiths — clarinet Svetlana Bogosavljevic — cello Timothy

Pepe Newton May 2, 2026

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ASQ celebrates forty years of artistry from Elegy to Ecstasy

Australian String Quartet | Convergence October 21, 2025, The Neilson, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW There’s something that feels just right about hearing a string quartet in The Neilson. The warm wood panelling, the intimacy of the space, the sense of shared stillness between audience and performers, even from the balcony it feels close. It’s the ideal setting for the

Pepe Newton October 21, 2025

CD/Recording

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

Pepe Newton April 21, 2022

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Review: SDC and ASQ a Perfect Partnership

Sydney Dance Company, Impermanence Feb 17, 2021 A few weeks ago an opportunity to review Sydney Dance Company’s world premiere of Impermanence dropped into the classikON inbox… I was excited of course, who wouldn’t want to attend the opening night of a word class dance company? but I was reluctant, for a couple of reasons; firstly, classikON has a pretty

Pepe Newton February 18, 2021

Sydney Mozart Society presents Australian String Quartet

At 8pm on a rainy Friday evening in Chatswood’s Concourse Concert Hall, four of the country’s most respected musicians took the stage as the Australian String Quartet. The ASQ is something of an institution within the Australian classical music scene, performing in various formations for over 30 years. In addition to their rigorous touring schedule, they run several music festivals

Heath Auchinachie October 9, 2018

Australian String Quartet

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