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Richard Wong

TwoSet Violin – great experience, happy faces, a delightful evening of fun music making

TwoSet Violin | Sacrilegious Games World Tour June 9, 2026, Sydney Opera House, NSW TwoSet Violin performed their sacrilegious concert at the Sydney Opera House. ‘How do we turn a 10-minute YouTube video into a one-hour-plus live experience?’ Eddy Chen asked during an interview. Well, you guys (I am a huge fan by the way, so please appreciate my take-down)

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Thunderous response to TMO’s world premiere commission by Graeme Brown

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Flare   June 6, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The Metropolitan Orchestra’s second ‘Met’ concert for 2026 promised a night of dazzling colour and elemental rhythm. That didn’t explain the explosive start to their performance titled Flare, conducted by vivacious Sarah-Grace Williams. I love the acoustical delivery of the Verbrugghen Hall at the Sydney Conservatorium that’s

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Bevan Rigato

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Firebird conducted by Sarah-Grace Williams

TMO’s second Met Concert for 2026 promises a night of dazzling colour and elemental rhythm. Led by Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams, this performance showcases the orchestra’s longtime support for talented Australian musicians when TMO present a world premiere work from composer Graeme Brown titled Endangered Species. Rimsky-Korsakov’s sparkling Capriccio Espagnol is inspired by Spanish folk melodies and characterised by its

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Tony Burke

TMO 2026 season opening – impossible to find fault

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Ignite 8 March, 2026, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, NSW Christopher Moran is a renowned Australian trumpet player who has achieved recognition not only at home playing with the SSO and other major orchestras but also in Canada and London. Numbering among his tutors none other than Daniel Mendelow, he has won the National trumpet

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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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Ron Ringer

A Hollywood blockbuster of an evening with TMO at Riverside

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Hollywood in Concert October 14, 2023, Riverside Theatres Parramatta For more than a century the movies created by the Hollywood studio system have helped to shape our popular culture. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a world without storytelling captured on celluloid as well as digital. So, I got to thinking about the evening ahead on my

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Ron Ringer

Three encores for TMO and Russoniello’s latest triumph

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Carnivals and Adventures May 28, 2023, Marrickville Town Hall Antonín Dvořák, Carnival Overture Dvořák’s Carnival Overture forms one part of the trilogy of overtures, “Nature, Life and Love” composed in 1891. Take note: listen to that opening gambit with the orchestra on the attack in dramatic style, strident, forthright, yet melodic. Heights are scaled by players

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Ron Ringer

Review: The Metropolitan Orchestra, surely one of Sydney’s finest…

The Metropolitan Orchestra | Reminiscing 5 March, 2023, Marrickville Town Hall First, the good news: last Sunday TMO worked its magic at Marrickville Town Hall.  Now, the bad: they won’t be back until 28 May. This was yet another hugely enjoyable concert performance from The Metropolitan Orchestra, surely one of Sydney’s finest.  The impressive line-up of accomplished musicians under the

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En pointe with The Metropolitan Orchestra

The Metropolitan Orchestra | String Serenade August 28, 2022, Marrickville Town Hall Under the baton of the remarkably talented conductor, Sarah-Grace Williams, The Metropolitan Orchestra excelled itself in last Sunday afternoon’s concert at Marrickville Town Hall. Methinks the event provided those visiting the inner west with their very own ‘Swoon’ experience. And did those aldermen who built that wonderful edifice

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