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David Hood

Lucas Debargue – an absolute virtuoso…

Live at Yours | Lucas Debargue June 2 Toorak Synagogue, Toorak, VIC What to expect from the French artist Monsieur Lucas Debargue? Factor in the fourth-prize winner at the XVth Tchaikovsky Competition; started piano at 10 years of age, initially with no teacher; an impressive CD repertoire with Sony; played piano at jazz bars, back in the day; loves different

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Pepe Newton

CSO | Llewellyn Series: Sea and Stars

Music at its most elemental and exhilarating Look up at night and you’ll see the stars – tiny fires in the sky. But for Yorta Yorta composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, the spaces between the stars are as important as the stars themselves and this was the inspiration for Dutala – Star Filled Sky. The final stanza of Schiller’s text from Beethoven’s Choral Symphony provides the words

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Pepe Newton

Orange Festival 2026 wraps up – Great music, great food, good company

Orange Chamber Music Festival | 2026 12-15 March, 2026, Orange, NSW This year’s Orange Chamber Music Festival continues to prove that great chamber music is not just about what happens on stage, but everything that surrounds it. For festival pass holders, the experience is something of a feast — and not just musically. Two or three intimate, pass-only performances sit

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David Hood

MSO opening gala with Jean Yves Tibaudet – audience knew musical stars when they heard them

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Opening Gala March 5,  2026, Hamer Hall, Melbourne, VIC The “wonderful” MSO took us on an enthralling aural voyage to Hollywood (via Northern Russia); Tin Pan Alley (New York) and Outer Space (John Williams), where our audience DID get to scream – “Bravos”! Starting with John William’s 11-minute Star Wars Suite, the Main Title certainly “smacked

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Pepe Newton

With SSO’s Season Opening, it promises to be an extraordinary year!

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Season Opening – Simone Young conducts Mahler’s Song of the Earth 26 February, 2026, Sydney Opera House Adam Manning’s Rhythmic Acknowledgement of Country opened the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 2026 season — a work I genuinely thrilled to encounter again. Manning, a Kamilaroi man and musician, artist, producer, researcher and educator at the University of Newcastle, performs

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Sydney Chamber Choir | Sessions on the Pier:Time & Tide

Now in its third edition, our much-loved concert series fusing classical, jazz and popular song returns — this time celebrating the beauty and rhythm of the changing seasons. Presented in the intimate surrounds of The Neilson on Pier 2/3 by the harbour, this program invites audiences to experience the year’s cycle through music of warmth, reflection and joy. Led by

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team@sympley.com.au

Sydney Chamber Choir | Sessions on the Pier: Time & Tide

Now in its third edition, our much-loved concert series fusing classical, jazz and popular song returns — this time celebrating the beauty and rhythm of the changing seasons. Presented in the intimate surrounds of The Neilson on Pier 2/3 by the harbour, this program invites audiences to experience the year’s cycle through music of warmth, reflection and joy. Led by

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Warren Wills

ACO’s Cocteau’s Circle – Encore Chloe Lankshear!

Australia Chamber Orchestra | Cocteau’s Circle November 17, 2025, Melbourne Recital Hall The Occasion A Monday night in the inventive and exploratory hands of Richard Tognetti and the ingenious ACO, Australia Chamber Orchestra. Having scaled the West face of Everest in ‘Mountain’ merely a fortnight ago, we have now migrated to the Melbourne Recital Centre, and set our Time Machine

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Tony Burke

Nexas Quartet launches new Gershwin album – a hit concert!

Nexas Quartet | Gershwin Album Launch 9 August, 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney, NSW Four saxophones sound a bit excessive, but not when you hear them played by Nexas, a quartet which has performed with few changes for over twenty years. Indeed, the sounds were so intertwined and complementary that it sounded just like a classical wind quartet but more engaging.

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Peter Hagen

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 5 – You really must go!

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Day 5 9 February, 2025, Bendigo, VIC ____________________________________ Read other reviews from this festival: WEDNESDAY + THURSDAY concerts >> FRIDAY concerts >> SATURDAY concerts >> ____________________________________ Sunday 11.00am Capital Theatre Mozart – Horn Quintet in E flat major K.407 (Peter, Natsuko, Justin, Tobi, Howard) Chopin – Nocturne op 27 no 1 (Ignas) Prokofiev Romeo and

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Tony Burke

KPO come through with flying colours!

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Rhapsody in Blue & Scheherazade NOV 17, 2024, The Concourse, Chatswood I have often wondered how the bird sounds so typical of Peter Sculthorpe’s music are produced by the strings. Apparently, the bow is applied continuously while the fingers slide up and down, as in a glissando on the piano. Whatever, Paul Terracini must have put in

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SSO – Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was a revelation

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue; New York Stories Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House 17 March 2023 Conductor: Andrea Molino, Piano: Simon Tedeschi Firmly rooted in jazz and heavily slanted towards New York in the early 20th century, this popular program was a sell-out and clearly loved by performers and audience alike. The opening piece was the only non-American

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Kenny Broberg showcased his virtuosity in a multifaceted, impactful recital

Kenny Broberg is rapidly becoming a notable figure in the piano world. In 2016, he was a Grand Finalist in the Sydney International Piano Competition. The following year, he won the Silver Medal at the Van Cliburn competition in Fort Worth Texas, and in 2019 he won Third Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Now, Broberg has returned

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