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Australian Harp Fest: Mark 2

Australian Harp Fest: Mark 2… the celebration continues! Harpists and composers Natalia Mann (Queensland), Paul Nicolaou (NSW) and Katia Mestrovic (VIC), converge at Tempo Rubato, to share an exciting program of new music for harp solo and trio. All of the works are Australian, from Lisa Cheney, Ross Edwards, Nigel Westlake, Christopher Larkin, Paul Nicolaou, Natalia Mann, and Katia Mestrovic.

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Heidi Hereth

Utzon Music begins the season in quintessentially Australian style

Utzon Music | The Edge of Zen 1 Feb, 2026, Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, NSW The Edge of Zen was a meditative musical merger of East and West, modern and contemporary, held in the Utzon Room with appropriately serene views of the tranquil harbour in silvery-grey afternoon light. The program was, in the words of curator and recorder virtuoso,

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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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Daniel Brace

Albury Chamber Music Festival – a festival of fun and fine music

Albury Chamber Music Festival | 2025 November 7 to 9, 2025, Albury, NSW That ‘festival feeling’, in my opinion, starts well in advance of the event itself. So much goes into planning and coordinating travel, booking accommodation, seeking out tips from seasoned festival goers, and then there is the much-anticipated release of the program. And the program for this year’s

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Tony Burke

NSSO: An intriguing programme brought to life by the ebullient Steven Hillinger

North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | September Concert September 28, 2024, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The friendly rivalry between the  North Sydney and the Willoughby Symphony Orchestras (surely two of the best community orchestras in the world) was renewed at Verbrugghen Hall with a concert that could reasonably described as ‘tumultuous’. Sir Malcolm Arnold is more familiar to Englishmen than Australians,

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Pepe Newton

Celebrating 40 years of The Song Company in style

The Song Company | Vespers for Mother Earth June 23, City Recital Hall, Sydney THE SONG COMPANY Susannah Lawergren, Annika Hinrichs, Anna Fraser – Sopranos Jessica O’Donoghue & Hannah Fraser – Mezzo Sopranos Timothy Reynolds & Louis Hurley – Tenors Hayden Barrington & Andrew O’Connor – Baritone & Bass Guest Director: Roland Peelman Ensemble Offspring & Guest Instrumentalists Lamorna Nightingale, Flute

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Pepe Newton

Halcyon’s 25 year dance of life, friendship and connection through music

Halcyon | The Dance of Life October 20, 2023, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct Halcyon’s concert on Friday night at Walsh Bay was a celebration of the ensemble’s 25th year. It was a wonderfully warm evening hosted by long time collaborator and friend of the ensemble Genevieve Lang who regaled us with touching stories of the many connections and collaborations behind

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Heidi Hereth

Bel a cappella’s delightful dissonances sent shivers

Bel a cappella | Lighten Our Darkness Saturday Sept 2, 2023, St Augustine’s Church Balmain This evening concert began in mysterious darkness, as the singers of Bel a cappella distributed themselves around the perimeter of St. Augustine’s Catholic Church. They sang The Apostles’ Creed, a 15th century setting in the form of a thirteen-part canon by Robert Wylkynson. I heard

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Pepe Newton

The Song Company, in a word – ethereal

The Song Company | Songs Under the Southern Cross March 17, 2023, The Neilson, Walsh Bay In her program notes for Songs Under the Southern Cross Guest Director Amy Moore describes The Song Company as “an energetic and engaging group of musicians with a passion for storytelling through the transformative beauty of the human voice,” hear hear Amy, I could

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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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Pepe Newton

Conductor Sam Allchurch reflects on Innocence & Experience

Sam Alllchurch is the Artistic Director of Sydney Chamber Choir which is performing Innocence & Experience for two concerts on Saturday 25 June. The concert is a celebration of Sydney Chamber Choir’s past, present and future, featuring a degustation of works from the ensemble’s 47 year history. classikON caught up with AIlchurch to find out more about this exciting program…

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Heidi Hereth

Chloe Lankshear’s delightful presentation of the life of Beatrix Potter

The Song Company: Close-Up | Becoming Beatrix May 15, 2022 Mosman Art Gallery The Song Company is renowned for its intriguing, unusual programs and “Becoming Beatrix” is no exception. Part of their Close-up series concentrating on individual artists, “Becoming Beatrix” featured accomplished soprano, Chloe Lankshear, who literally “became” Beatrix in this program, and the innovative Francis Greep, who accompanied her

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