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Balmain Sinfonia | His Servant, Bach

PROGRAM Joachim Raff – Overture, Ein’ feste Burg Graham Koehne – To his servant, Bach, God grants a final glimpse Otto Nicolai – Christmas Overture with Bel a cappella Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no. 5, “Reformation”, Op. 107 Balmain Sinfonia is a Sydney-based symphony orchestra whose aim is to bring high quality orchestral music to the community at affordable prices.

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Pepe Newton

SSO farewells 2025 Fellows with rising stars in concert

SSO | Farewelling Our Fellows 2025 31 October 2025, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney, NSW Presented by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellowship 2025 SSO Fellows Liam Pilgrim violin, Natalie Mavridis violin, Ariel Postmus viola, Noah Lawrence cello, Harry Young double bass, Dana Alison flute, Amy Clough oboe, Oliver Crofts clarinet, Bailey Ireland bassoon, Bryn Arnold horn, Isabella Thomas trumpet, Jeremy Mazurek trombone – with guest artists Marcus Michelsen

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Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | DuskLit

MCO + ANDREA LAM Known for her expressive depth and brilliant technique — as well as her warm presence on ABC’s The Piano — Andrea Lam brings Mozart’s beloved Piano Concerto No 21 to life with elegance and joy. Mendelssohn’s sun-drenched Italian Symphony also shines, along with the premiere of a moving new work by Miriama Young, created from field recordings by young people

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Selby & Friends presented a concert that beautifully surprised and delighted

Selby & Friends | Songs Without Words 15 September, 2025, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Alexandra Osborne – violin | Catherine Hewgill – cello | Kathryn Selby – piano Anne Cawrse: Songs Without Words (2000) – Ornamental, Lied, Swan Song Frederic Chopin: Piano Trio in G minor – Allegro confuoco, Scherzo Vivace, Adagio Sostenuto, Finale Allegretto Franz Schubert: Piano Trio no

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Molly Jenkins

Thought and love poured into every note of Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s new CD

Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra | Midsummer Dreams CD Review On Thursday the 27th of March, 2025 The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra will release their newest album Midsummer Dreams. It consists of works by Felix Mendelssohn and Ludwig Van Beethoven, who share a musical language that is influenced by both the Classical and Romantic periods, making ARCO the ideal

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Ron Ringer

Mood, mind, majesty – a musical panorama from TMO

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Beethoven 7 March 9, 2025, Marrickville, NSW Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture This first concert in the TMO’s 2025 series commenced with Felix Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture, a work he completed in 1830 following a trip to England in 1829 with a friend. Travelling to the remote Inner Hebrides of Scotland’s west coast,

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Peter Hagen

From your roving “reporter” on the Bendigo Chamber Music Festival

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival | 2025 February 6 – 9, Bendigo, VIC I am currently sitting in a cafe writing up my notes for this 4 day event and feeling very satisfied that music in the regions is growing. This festival has brought in international performers as well as extraordinary local performers. There seems to be a philosophy of encouragement

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Hearing Angela Hewitt was gold silk for the ear

Angela Hewitt | in Recital October 12, 2024, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC To hear Angela Hewitt In Recital is a lifelong dream of mine, since buying her CD’s (my first) in the early 1990’s.  Even since then, Angela Hewitt remains one of the world’s most sought after and revered virtuosi of the piano. And with good reason.

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International Organ Series 2024 ends in a contemplative vein

International Organ Series | Final Concert 27 September, 2024, | Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC The final concert of this year’s International Organ Series at The Scots’ Church in Melbourne, which is held across the month of September each year, was dedicated to organist Lachlan Redd who was scheduled to perform before his untimely death earlier this year. In his place

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Peter Hagen

Melting Moments with MSO: Conductor and soloist were absolutely one

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Beethoven & Mendelssohn September 19, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, VIC Umberto Clerici conductor Satu Vänskä violin ROSSINI La Scala di Seta: Overture BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.3 Scottish This concert followed the tried and proven formula of overture followed by a concerto and after the interval a symphony. The audience was entertained with a popular

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Young organ performers delighted and wowed us – the pews were shaking!

The Scots’ Church International Organ Series | Concert 4: Student Recital  September 14, 2024, The Scots’ Church, Melbourne, VIC Organ and harpsichord students from Thomas Heywood, Jennifer Chou, Elizabeth Anderson and Douglas Lawrence Opportunities for performance are an essential part of the development of young musicians, they are also a wonderful opportunity for us as listeners to hear loved or

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Augustin Hadelich with Sydney Symphony Orchestra ‘simply as good as it gets’

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Augustin Hadelich performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto August 7, 2024, Sydney Opera House, NSW Simone Young – conductor Augustin Hadelich – violin soloist PROGRAM Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) – Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64 Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) – Symphony No.8 in C minor Violin soloist Augustin Hadelich walked on stage and in seconds into the Mendelssohn Violin

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Blackheath Chamber Music Festival truly world class

Blackheath Chamber Music Festival | Day Three Sunday April 21, 2024, Phillip’s Hall, Blackheath, NSW What a glorious time to visit the autumnal town of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, there was a brisk chill in the air and a gorgeously red and yellow tone bursting from the street trees. Day three of the festival featured the final of 21

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Cheeky joyfulness of the Australian Haydn Ensemble quartet

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Love and Devotion February 18, 2024, Utzton Room, Sydney Three string quartets, each expressing different aspects of love and devotion, were on this eponymous evening program by the Australian Haydn Ensemble in the Utzon Room. Skye McIntosh introduced the program, saying there was more to ‘Love and Devotion’ than romantic, passionate love – there was also

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SYD FEST 24, An interesting program of Bach and those inspired by him

Sydney Festival: Temperament series | Andrew Bukenya: Bach in Colour 27 January, 2024, The Neilson, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, NSW The Sydney Festival is presenting an interesting series of seven concerts, broadly based around the music of JS Bach. In this, the fourth of these concerts, the charismatic Andrew Bukenya and his Vocal Ensemble presented an interesting program of unaccompanied

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Avan Yu with WSO – a true virtuoso!

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Virtuoso November 25, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The concert given by the WSO at Chatswood Concourse had a large audience attracted by a very popular and well thought out program. Star of the show was Avan Yu. Now resident in Berlin, the Canadian Avan won the coveted first prize in the 2012 Sydney Piano Competition

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KPO and Beethoven’s powerful, emphatic 5th Symphony

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Beethoven’s 5th November 19, 2023, St Ives Uniting Church. NSW What an enticing programme by the KPO at St Ives Uniting Church which, not surprisingly, was full to the brim. The opening overture, Rossini’s Barber of Seville showed the composer’s flair with variety of themes and his famous prolonged crescendos. Rossini’s overtures were more numerous and

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