WSO’s Young Composer of the Year 2025 premieres in an enjoyable concert

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | The Lark Ascending May 4, 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The programme for the latest WSO concert could by no stretch of the imagination be called conventional which of course added to its appeal. The effusive Sarah Penicka-Smith gave an introduction to each work in turn and this was widely appreciated by an enthusiastic and receptive

Tony Burke May 6, 2025

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An ‘Entangled’ evening with Jessica O’Donoghue

The Song Company: Up Close | Entangled June 24, 2022, Wharf 4/5, Dawes Point The Song Company Studio at Wharf 4/5 at Dawes Point was quickly filling up with an enthusiastic crowd coming to see Entangled, a “Close-up” performance by Jessica O’Donoghue. It was a sell-out, and more chairs had to be brought in. Artistic Director, Antony Pitts played the

Heidi Hereth June 28, 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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CD Review: Christopher Pidcock | Immersed in Bach

One of Australia’s most versatile and thoroughly musical cellists Christopher Pidcock has recently released a wonderfully inventive CD of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat BWV1010 and has interspersed with each of the 6 movements a solo cello work by Australian, USA, German and Italian composers that have all been written since the middle of the 20th century.

Alan Holley January 27, 2021

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