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SSO’s Listen to This Series – a beautiful secret (don’t tell!)

SSO | Listen to this: Discover Tchaikovsky 10 March 2026, Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, NSW Benjamin Northey (conductor in residence). I am a huge fan of the SSO’s ‘Listen to this’ concept. I love having a great piece of music being torn apart and analysed. It is very hard to pull off an event like this unless you have

Richard Wong March 12, 2026

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Utzon Music begins the season in quintessentially Australian style

Utzon Music | The Edge of Zen 1 Feb, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW The Edge of Zen was a meditative musical merger of East and West, modern and contemporary, held in the Utzon Room with appropriately serene views of the tranquil harbour in silvery-grey afternoon light. The program was, in the words of curator and recorder virtuoso,

Heidi Hereth February 4, 2026

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SSO, Young and Lam produce piano pyrotechnics

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Simone Young conducts Richard Strauss 3 September, 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW EMIRATES MASTERS SERIES Simone Young conductor Andrea Lam piano RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949) – Metamorphosen – Study for 23 solo strings (1945) Burleske (1885–86) Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 (1896) Introduction: Sunrise Of the backworldsmen iii. Of the great longing Of joys

Alan Holley September 5, 2025

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Bendigo Chamber Music Festival: Days 1 & 2 – a fine start!

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | Wednesday + Thursday 5th and 6th February, 2025, Bendigo, VIC Covering the whole festival in some detail, this is a long review broken up over 4 articles. I strongly encourage readers NOT to read this entire review in one go; instead read it day by day with a pause in between or even take one

Peter Hagen February 12, 2025

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The ‘heavenly’ Olivier Latry with SSO

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony July 10, 2024, Sydney Opera House, NSW STÉPHANE DENÈVE conductor OLIVIER LATRY organ GUILLAUME CONNESSON (born 1970) – Flammenschrift (2012) Australian premiere FRANCIS POULENC (1899–1963) – Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and timpani CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921) – Symphony No.3 in C minor, Op.78 (‘Organ’ Symphony) The opportunity to hear one of

Alan Holley July 11, 2024

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SSO’s Britten & Prokofiev, a richly engaging Cocktail Hour concert

SSO | Britten & Prokofiev: Rhythmic Movements Performed by members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, Friday 30 June 2023 This short 50 minute program is part of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s chamber music series know as their “Cocktail Hour” concerts, where selected members of the orchestra prepare works and present them in intimate situations; in

Daniel Kaan July 2, 2023

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The Orchestra Project triumphantly celebrates 20 years

The Orchestra Project April 17, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney When I walked into the Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Easter Sunday the place was positively buzzing. Don’t you just love that pre-concert cacophony? The tuning of instruments, musicians warming up, getting in a last few seconds of practice, audiences finding their seats, the sheer anticipation of it

Pepe Newton April 18, 2022

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Musica Viva’s Bernadette Harvey, Harry Bennetts and Miles Mullin-Chivers’ play with sensitivity and passion

City Recital Hall, Sydney March 7, 2022 After battling heavy rain and storms, it was a relief to be welcomed into the City Recital Hall. The Musica Viva concert we came to see was well worth the effort! Bernadette Harvey introduced the concert and welcomed digital viewers on the Musica Viva live stream. A celebrated pianist, she was joined by

Heidi Hereth March 9, 2022

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