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Sydney Chamber Music Festival | 2026

Something extraordinary is coming to Manly this winter. The Sydney Chamber Music Festival returns to Manly Art Gallery and Museum on 27–28 June, with four unmissable concerts featuring some of Australia’s most celebrated musicians. Be moved by the aching beauty of Saudade, a programme steeped in longing and lyricism and lose yourself in The Art of Tenderness, a breathtaking exploration

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The Sydney Chamber Music Festival | The Art Of Tenderness

The Art of Tenderness invites listeners into a world where stillness, warmth, and expressive detail come to the fore. This thoughtfully curated program brings together three master musicians in a sequence of works that reveal how delicacy and emotional nuance can coexist with depth, power, and expressive freedom. The concert opens with Philippe Gaubert’s Pièce Romantique — a luminous, single-movement

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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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Tony Burke

Australia Ensemble UNSW’s Soldier’s Tale nothing less than sublime

Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 1 March 14, 2026, University of NSW, NSW To hear a cleverly inspired solo actor play is a privilege – when it is accompanied by brilliantly conceived and played musical accompaniment, it is nothing less than sublime. Written at the time of the Great War with the collaboration of playwright Charles Ramuz, as a play

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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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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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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 4, 2026

French and Australian works bring the season to a glittering conclusion. Jean Anouilh’s satirical comedy, known in English as Ring Round the Moon and worthy of Wodehouse or Waugh, inspired Poulenc’s highly amusing incidental music of dances and parodic character pieces to illustrate the comic intrigues at a lavish ball. Gabriel Fauré’s delicate music is represented by a celebrated Nocturne and loving

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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 3, 2026

Praised as a child by Ravel, Françaix became one of the most prolific composers of the twentieth century. His aim was ‘to give pleasure… to be jolly most of the time – even comical.’ His Dixtuor is a sparkling showpiece for ten instruments. American composer Valerie Coleman often pays homage to earlier music, in this case the virtuosic Tzigane by Ravel, which Coleman –

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Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 2, 2026

In a program of four trios we hear Beethoven’s greatest Piano Trio, the Archduke, written at the end of his ‘heroic’ period. It has the amplitude, variety and formal elaboration of works such as the Seventh Symphony; it is crowned by a slow movement that is one Beethoven’s most extraordinary variation-sets. Brahms’s late-period Trio is an affectionate tribute to ‘Fräulein

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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Sydney

Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method for earning a living for

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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Adelaide

Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method for earning a living for

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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Melbourne

Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method for earning a living for

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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Melbourne

Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method for earning a living for

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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Turramurra

Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method for earning a living for

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Selby & Friends | Bush, Borscht & Bonn – Canberra

Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday folk was a prime method for earning a living for

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Tony Burke

Superb craft and musicianship from Selby & Friends in Epic Diva

Selby & Friends | Epic Diva November 23, 2025, Turramurra Uniting Church, NSW Johannes Brahms was not at the zenith of his career in 1862 when he composed his 2nd Piano Quartet. His first Piano Concerto had been so badly received that he had to leave the auditorium after the first movement while his ill-fated attempt to join in the,

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Richard Wong

‘AE’ presents truly memorable concert + world premiere from Lachlan Skipworth

Australia Ensemble UNSW | Concert 4 October 25, 2025, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW, NSW The Australia Ensemble UNSW held its final concert for the year on Saturday October 25 in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium. Catch the light rail from Central Train station like me, it drops you off virtually at the front door step. The program notes provided

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