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Deep Listening, Bright Futures at First Peoples 2025 Composer Showcase

Ngarra-Burria | First Peoples 2025 Composers Showcase Wednesday 15 October, 2025, Eugene Goossens Hall, Sydney, NSW Presented by Ensemble Offspring In a space named after one of Australia’s great composer-conductors, the next generation of composers took centre stage with stories not just of musical innovation, but of culture, resilience and presence. This was the 2025 Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers Showcase,

Pepe Newton October 16, 2025

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SSO’s Sounds of Australia bristling with life

Musicians of the SSO: Sounds of Australia 2 May 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW PROGRAM: Brenda Gifford: Walimbaya (Return) Aaron Wyatt: Cirrus Hollis Taylor and Jon Rose: Palm & Ragonesi (World Premiere) Christopher Sainsbury: From the Deep Brenda Gifford: Mungala (Clouds) Nardi Simpson: Burruguu (Time of Creation) ARTISTS: Musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Benjamin Ward, double bass

Daniel Kaan May 3, 2025

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EO’s Songbirds, a highly successful interspecies collaboration!

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens: Songbirds Saturday March 8, 2025, Glebe, NSW Performers: Claire Edwardes – Artistic Director, percussion Lamorna Nightingale – flutes Jason Noble – clarinet, bass clarinet Songbirds is the first concert of Ensemble Offspring’s 30 th birthday season, ‘back by popular demand to enliven Sydney backyards’ and presented this time in Glebe at the house of John

Clive Lane + Marjory Ellsmore March 10, 2025

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Special and precious gifts from MSO First Voices Showcase

MSO | First Voices Showcase May 26, 2023, Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne The warmth and excitement inside the Iwaki Auditorium, as members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Ensemble Dutala got ready to perform world premieres by First Nations artists, was in direct contrast to the cold rainy night outside. Thanks to an MSO education program, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara singer/songwriter, Vonda Last

Daniel Brace May 27, 2023

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Camerata brings the distinct sound-world of the Australian landscape to life

Camerata | From my Homeland Thursday May 25, 2023, QPAC Camerata’s From my Homeland concert on Thursday night was a celebration of contemporary Australian chamber music, with the entire program comprising of music from our home. Camerata was also celebrating 10 years as company-in-residence at QPAC, a decade of collaboration, friendship and music-making together. The concert began with Margaret Sutherland’s

Claire Matthews May 26, 2023

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Ensemble Offspring’s exhilarating brand of living new music up close

Ensemble Offspring | Avant Gardens 1 Sunday February 26, 2023, A home in Alexandria Back in 2020 Ensemble Offspring got creative, rather than just sitting around waiting for venues to get back to normal they created a series of outdoor events starting with ‘Ah Tempe!’, a musical walking tour of an inner Sydney suburb, and in 2022 ‘Avant Gardens’ was

Pepe Newton February 27, 2023

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Sydney Chamber Choir’s crisp rhythmic brilliance

Innocence and Experience | Sydney Chamber Choir Saturday 26 June, The Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay What a treat to be able to hear a concert in an amazing new performance space, on a sunny, winter’s afternoon on the revamped Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay. The new space, created on an old pier, was a great way to get

Jacqui Smith June 26, 2022

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Review: A Standing Ovation for Stanhope’s New Requiem

Sydney Chamber Choir | Paul Stanhope: A New Requiem March 13, 2021, Sydney It had been 364 days since The Sydney Chamber Choir last performed in the City Recital Hall. On this balmy Saturday night they returned enthusiastically to perform a beautiful concert linked by the concepts of mortality rituals, mourning and overcoming grief. This concert was conducted by Paul

Heidi Hereth March 15, 2021

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March 13 Premiere: Paul Stanhope | A New Requiem

Billed as a ‘Requiem born anew for Australia’ award-winning composer and former director of Sydney Chamber Choir, Paul Stanhope, returns to lead the Choir in the world premiere of his Requiem, a masterwork of transcendent beauty and healing leading a program of choral music around themes of mortality, hope, ritual and powerful connection to country. Paul Stanhope: A New Requiem

Pepe Newton February 15, 2021

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