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Pepe Newton

Music and dance are all you need… Salut! Baroque – well played!

Salut! Baroque | Invitation to the Dance 26 April, 2026,  Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW Artists: Aimee Brown – Baroque Dance Sally Melhuish, Alana Blackburn – Recorder Sally Walker – Baroque Flute Jane Downer – Baroque Oboe John Ma, Jared Adams – Baroque Violin Brad Tham – Baroque Viola Tim Blomfield – Bass Violin George Wills – Theorbo / Baroque Guitar

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Duo de Graaf Connie bring sparkling Art Song to the intimate Athenaeum Library

Christelise de Graaf and Meredith Connie | Splendid: Art Songs through the Ages 13 March, 2026, Melbourne Athenaeum Library, Melbourne VIC The Melbourne Atheneum Library was treated to a beautiful concert presented by Christelise de Graaf (soprano) and Meredith Connie (classical guitarist and composer) on Friday evening. The duo explored repertoire that is not often given an airing but showed

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Warren Wills

Barton & Brodsky – Thrilling. Accessible. Millennial. Sublime.

Brodsky String Quartet & William Barton February 25, 2026, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC The Occasion Midweek, late February in Melbourne — summer in decline. Beware the Ides of March. Around the corner at Hamer Hall the future beckons with a laser/synthesiser reimagining of the prophetic AI apocalyptic film Terminator 2: Judgment Day. But nestled snugly within the extraordinary honeycombed acoustic

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David Hood

MCO gives us treasures of the highest value in ‘Nightingale’

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Nightingale November 23, 2025,  Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC THE GREAT J.S. Bach, renowned as a master organist certainly knew his way around a harpsichord, as well; so much so that one of his employers hired him to repair some of His Lordship’s instruments. Although he’d arranged some of Vivaldi’s concertos previously, Bach, single-handedly (both hands actually),

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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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Daniel Kaan

Haydn’s Miracle – an inspiring and thoughtful concert from the AHE

Australian Haydn Ensemble | Haydn’s Miracle 24 August 2025, The Neilson, Walsh Bay, NSW PROGRAM: HAYDN: String Quartet Op. 76 No. 6 in E flat major “Fantasia” SCHUBERT: String Quartet in A minor D. 804 “Rosamunde” PURCELL: Fantasia in 4 parts No. 8 in D minor Z 739 HAYDN: (arr. Salomon) Symphony No. 96 in D major “Miracle” ARTISTS: Australian Haydn

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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

Sjaella sparkle in their Sydney Opera House debut

Utzon Music | Sjaella 13 July 2025, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW With Sydney Harbour glittering through the Utzon Room’s glass wall and Fort Denison posing quietly in the background, the stage was perfectly set for a performance that flitted and fluttered like birdsong through centuries and cultures. Sjaella, an all-female sextet from Germany celebrating 20 years of singing

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Pepe Newton

Rather civilised indeed! Operantics brings Austen’s drawing room to life

Operantics | No Charm Equal – Music From Jane Austen’s Drawing Room 11 July 2025 | Mosman Art Gallery, NSW It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in want of refinement must be in want of music. And so it was that a small, well-appointed audience gathered at Mosman Art Gallery on a winter’s eve, where, beneath stained

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Pepe Newton

Flights, Feathers and Fanfares: Pinchgut’s Fairy Queen Soars

Pinchgut Opera | The Fairy Queen 7 June,  2025, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay, NSW Wow! Pinchgut does it again… From the first downbeat to the final shimmering chord, The Fairy Queen had me completely enthralled. The thrilling blend of baroque brilliance and modern wit had me pinned to my seat, not wanting to miss a moment of this cleverly

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Daniel Kaan

Camerata Academica of the Antipodes present a personal and engaging program

Camerata Academica of the Antipodes | Baroque Romantics 7 December 2024, St Albans Church Hall, Epping, NSW Director: Dr Imogen Coward Turning up at a church hall in Epping to hear an interesting program by a well established group of which I had not heard before, made me curious. The rather grand title “Camerata Academica of the Antipodes” probably eludes

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Daniel Brace

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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Pepe Newton

Pinchgut’s Dido and Aeneas nothing less than exceptional

Pinchgut Opera | Dido and Aeneas June 2, 2024, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW Pinchgut Opera has once again proven its mastery of the Baroque repertoire with a captivating performance of Henry Purcell’s star-crossed love story Dido and Aeneas at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. This production, directed by Lucy Clements, not only resurrects a classic but elevates it to new

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Australian Chamber Choir’s beautifully balanced texture

Australian Chamber Choir | Buckingham Palace November 4, 2023, Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, Geelong A coronation is a religious ceremony of the highest order, and, over several hundred years, the British monarchy have a storehouse of fine music from such royal occasions. Buckingham Palace (the title says it all) is the latest concert from the Australian Chamber

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Claire Matthews

Bangalow Music Festival – fine food, stunning scenery, exquisite chamber music

Bangalow Music Festival 2022 A weekend in the country with fine food, stunning scenery, and exquisite chamber music: that’s what the Bangalow Music Festival has to offer. Now in its 19th edition, the festival brings this small town in Northern New South Wales to life. Held annually in August, it features our finest chamber musicians from Brisbane as well as

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The Jacobean Singers’ joy of singing was palpable in their “Dido & Aeneas”

On Saturday 20th July, the Jacobean Singers performed Purcell for a loyal audience in Vaucluse. The peaceful St Michael’s Anglican Church was a beautiful venue for the performance. The Jacobean singers is an established group of predominantly older singers with a loyal audience of locals who came to support them. My own reason for coming was because I love Purcell’s

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Josie and The Emeralds: Honouring St Cecilia

And who is St Cecilia you may ask? No less than the Patron Saint of Music, who received such an accolade in honour of her 2nd or 3rd Century martyrdom. Doubtless she would have a special affinity for The Emeralds, given her association with the viol as portrayed in the paintings of Raphael, Rubens and others. A small statue of

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