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Richard Wong

Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong truly excellent performers

Sydney Mozart Society | Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong 20 May 2026, The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW 4 violin sonatas: MOZART Sonata for piano and violin in G major, K301 BEETHOVEN Sonata for piano and violin in C minor, op. 30 no. 2 BRAHMS Sonata for piano and violin in A major, op. 100 RAVEL Sonata for violin and

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David Hood

MCO presents a cornucopia of varied delights, both old and new

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Flexible Sky 26 February 2-26, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC MCO’s first programme for 2026, Flexible Sky was a cornucopia of varied delights, both old and new – very new in some cases. Guitarist Slava Grigoryan featured in two items and I had a quick chat with him after the show; he thinks he came into 3MBS

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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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David Hood

MCO’s stunning brilliance and inspiring collegiality on show

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra | Musette 24 August, 2025 Melbourne Recital Centre, VIC Sophie Rowell’s brilliantly-curated programme, on Sunday 24 August at Melbourne Recital Centre, had the MCO touring musical Australia, Austria, France and Italy. Cellist Li-Wei Qin featured in Haydn’s C major Concerto which, giving the ‘big-boys’ (Dvorak, Elgar, etc.) a head start, was rediscovered only in 1961. Haydn, very

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Pepe Newton

MCO + Lior World Premiere

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra unveil an exciting new collaboration with singer/songwriter Lior and composer Ade Vincent ‘To Be Human’ is an extraordinary new song cycle commissioned by the MCO, and performed with Lior as part of the Of People and Song concert. ‘To Be Human’ is a fresh contemporary direction for the MCO under the new artistic director, Sophie Rowell. “Together

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Alan Holley

MSO: Stunning solos and a world premiere for Eötvös

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Debussy’s Nocturnes: Darkness and Light October 13, 2022, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Nodoka Okinawa – conductor Yinuo Mu – harp Upper voices of the MSO chorus Descending multiple sets of escalators to reach the stalls of the Hamer Hall, and surely we were beneath the high water mark of the Yarra now in the early stages of

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Chai Jie Low

Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the MSO Transported the Audience into a New World

Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the MSO: Mid Season Gala 31 July, 2022, Hamer Hall There was something deeply captivating about cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s performance of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 to a sold-out audience at Hamer Hall alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. From the dark, brooding opening solo in the lower register of the cello, the wry humour of the scherzo-like

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Jane Downer

Musica Viva’s exquisitely fragile and brutally beautiful program a resounding success

Konstantin Shamray & ANAM Orchestra, Sophie Rowell and Harry Ward Musica Viva National Livestream Saturday 15th May 2021 Musica Viva’s second national concert tour for 2021 involved a programme of intensely heartfelt music featuring the young violinist and composer Harry Ward (a Musica Viva FutureMaker artist, ANAM alumnus, and principal second violin for this concert), prize-winning concert pianist Konstantin Shamray

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Jane Downer

Review: Bendigo Chamber Music Festival’s Thrilling Gala Opening

Bendigo Chamber Music Festival Opening Gala – Summer Nights Series 1 Wednesday 3rd February 2021 The Bendigo Chamber Music Festival’s Opening Gala for their Summer Nights Series 1 featured a programme of music in a myriad of styles covering early Baroque, forays into the Romantic era, traditional folk, and 20th-century jazz. Co-Directors of the BCMF, Howard Penny and Chris Howlett

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Jane Downer

Review | Sophie Rowell + Kristian Chong light up Hamer Hall

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall – Hamer Hall Series 3 X 3: MOZART, MYTHS AND MANTRAS Thursday 26th November Introduced by Chris Howlett and broadcast live through the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, well-known violinist and concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Sophie Rowell united with leading Australian pianist Kristian Chong for a concert titled 3 X 3: MOZART, MYTHS AND MANTRAS.

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Tony Burke

Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong’s immaculate Sydney Mozart Society performance was thoroughly enjoyable

A packed hall at Chatswood Concourse welcomed violinist Sophie Rowell and pianist Kristian Chong, who are no strangers to the Sydney Mozart Society. Sophie won the ABC Young Performers Award in 2000 which gave her the opportunity to play as soloist with the major Australian orchestras. She then founded the Tankstream Quartet which won many overseas prizes before morphing into

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