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Omega Ensemble | Inner Landscapes

Omega Ensemble presents Inner Landscapes, featuring the world premiere of a new work by award-winning Australian conductor Paul Stanhope, at the City Recital Hall, Sydney. Australia’s most dynamic chamber group presents works by Corigliano, Schubert, and Stanhope, alongside the Australian premiere of Grammy Award-winning American composer Jessie Montgomery. In a world premiere, Australian composer Paul Stanhope brings lyrical depth and

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Coro Austral | Iberia

We are thrilled to present a concert showcasing choral pieces we will take on our performance tour to Portugal and Spain in October 2026! Conducted by Margot McLaughlin Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Romances) by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, is an evocative choral setting of powerful lyrics by Federico García Lorca, portraying the everyday lives of common people in a Spain soaked in passion,

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Omega Ensemble | Inner Landscapes

Omega Ensemble presents Inner Landscapes, featuring the world premiere of a new work by award-winning Australian conductor Paul Stanhope, at Newcastle City Hall on Saturday 11 July. Australia’s most dynamic chamber group presents works by Corigliano, Schubert, and Stanhope, alongside the Australian premiere of Grammy Award-winning American composer Jessie Montgomery. In a world premiere, Australian composer Paul Stanhope brings lyrical

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Omega Ensemble | Inner Landscapes

Mirroring the composer’s own inner turmoil, Franz Schubert’s stirring String Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden” has long captured the imagination of listeners with its thrilling climaxes, tortured freneticism and darkly romantic source material.  In an expanded setting for chamber orchestra arranged by the formidable Gustav Mahler, this seminal work leads a program that ventures into intimate inner worlds, exploring shifting terrains of

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Pepe Newton

Carmina Burana – musical perfection from Sydney Chamber Choir

Sydney Chamber Choir | Carmina Burana 22 March 2026, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir’s Carmina Burana program was cleverly constructed, using the same instrumental forces in the first half, two pianos and percussion, before unleashing them fully in Orff’s great rhythmic blockbuster after the interval. It made musical and practical sense, and it allowed the audience to

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Chamber Choir celebrates connection and a legacy alive and thriving

Sydney Chamber Choir | Connections 28 September 2025, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The Sydney Chamber Choir marks its 50th year in 2025 and what a year of celebrations it has been so far! This concert was as much a reunion as it was a performance. President Chris Matthies opened proceedings by welcoming 22 former choristers who were joining the ‘regular’

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Daniel Kaan

AVÉ concert launches new album of Australian works – immensely enjoyable

AVÉ: Australian Vocal Ensemble | Thought is surrounded by a halo 10 August, 2025, The Neilson, ACO, Pier 2/3, Walsh Bay, NSW VOICES: Katie Noonan: Soprano and Artistic Director Fiona Campbell: Mezzo-soprano Louis Hurley: Tenor Andrew O’Connor: Bass-baritone PROGRAM: Andrew O’Connor: Thought is Surrounded by a Halo Perry Joyce: My father’s gun Joseph Twist:  Refugee Thomas Luis de Victoria: Heth Misericordiae

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Chamber Choir – Five Composers, Fifty Years, One Word: Love

Sydney Chamber Choir | 50th Anniversary Gala July 5, 2025 City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Sydney Chamber Choir Sam Allchurch – Conductor Brooke Window – Soprano Richard Butler – Tenor Nicola Bell – Oboe/Cor anglais Richard Shaw – Clarinet Andrew Barnes – Bassoon Euan Harvey – French horn Emily Granger – Harp Jess Ciampa – Percussion What an extraordinary gift

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Daniel Kaan

The Song Company’s Journey to Finisterre a profound experience

The Song Company: Journeying to Finisterre 15 March 2025, St Philip’s Church, Sydney, NSW Program: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat – O Virgo Splendens Tomas Luis de Victoria – O quam gloriosum Codex Calixtinus – Congaudeant Catholici Juan del Encina – ¡O Reyes Magos Benditos! Alfonso X El Sabio – Cantigas de Santa Maria: Entre Ave e Eva Francisco Guerrero –

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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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Alan Holley

Bel a cappella presents a program of vocal riches

Bel a cappella | Mass for Saint Cecilia November 23, 2024, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney Monica Buckland   conductor David Drury   organ Christopher Sainsbury    Upon a high rock platform Herbert Howells*   A Hymn for St Cecilia Cecilia McDowall    Cecilia, busy like a bee Sarah MacDonald    Cantica Sanctae Ceciliae** Judith Bingham*    Consider Saint Cecilia Katharine Parton    CECILIA** Paul Stanhope    Lament to

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Pepe Newton

The Song Company’s moving tribute to William Byrd’s legacy

The Song Company | Songs from a Strange Land Sunday Oct 8, 2023, St Mary’s Crypt, Sydney In their third program for 2023, under the guest direction of early music specialist Christopher Watson, The Song Company pay homage to William Byrd, a man who crafted some of the most exquisite vocal compositions ever conceived. 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of

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Daniel Kaan

Australia Ensemble and Andrew Goodwin’s captivating beauty

Australia Ensemble | On Song 15 April 2023, Sir John Clancy Auditorium, University of NSW The Australia Ensemble, based at UNSW, has been providing Sydney audiences with impressive quality subscription series in the Sir John Clancy Auditorium since 1980. This must make them one of Australia’s most enduring chamber ensembles. The core instruments are string quartet, flute, clarinet and piano,

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Free Showcase JAN 28 – MSO celebrates 20 years with The Cybec Foundation

This concert is BOOKED OUT – FREE Live stream via link below To celebrate a milestone partnership and the 20th anniversary of the Cybec 21st Century Australian Composers program, Cybec Assistant Conductor Carlo Antonioli will lead the MSO in the Cybec Showcase: 20th Anniversary concert to be hosted by Principal Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey, at The Edge, Federation Square

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2023 with Australia Ensemble UNSW, bursting with luminosity

Australia Ensemble UNSW 2023 Season Launched Australia Ensemble UNSW is thrilled to launch its 44th annual subscription season, bursting with “luminosity through a typically rich and varied program sure to ignite an inner glow” as described by the Artistic Chair, Paul Stanhope. In 2023, Australia Ensemble UNSW offers breathtaking masterworks such as the Brahms String Sextet in B flat, the

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First annual Chamber Music Festival in Goulburn, NSW

Hume Conservatorium is excited to deliver the first annual Chamber Music Festival in Goulburn. From the 16 -18 September Goulburn will come alive with music from across the region. …featuring Gala performances from Ensemble Offspring, The Sydney Chamber Choir, and Simon Tedeschi and George Washingmachine. At the Friday night Gala Ensemble Offspring’s very own musical mavericks Claire Edwardes (marimba) and

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Pepe Newton

Sydney Children’s Choir perform Miracles

7pm, Saturday 19th June 2021 Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music This joyful concert was called ‘Miracles’ and indeed it was a small miracle that Sydney Children’s Choir was able to perform in public on Saturday night for the first time in a very long while, to a packed Verbrugghen Hall. What a wonderful welcome back to the stage! The

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Heidi Hereth

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

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