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SMS presents a satisfying program for the musically curious

Sydney Mozart Society |Timo-Veikko Valve & Aura Go 19 August 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Program BEETHOVEN: Horn Sonata in F major, Op.17 (arr. Beethoven) MOZART: Andantino in B-flat major, K 374g (cmpl. Annette Isserlis) MOZART: Allegro in A major, K 480a (cmpl./arr. Ian Munro) MOZART: Andante and Fugue, K 402 (cmpl. Maximilian Stadler, arr. Ian Munro) LISA ILLEAN: ever-weaver

Daniel Kaan August 23, 2025

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Seraphim Trio presents a varied, original and attractive program

Sydney Mozart Society | Seraphim Trio May 28, 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW Following the lamented retirement of the Goldner Quartet, the Seraphim Trio would be contenders for the longest lasting Australian chamber music group. Formed in Adelaide in 1995, they have comprised the same three members since 1998. Apart from giving regular concerts, they have recorded cycles dedicated to

Tony Burke May 30, 2025

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Sydney Mozart Society’s 2025 Season – individual concerts on sale now

Sydney Mozart Society | 2025 Season It is fitting that one of Australia’s leading historically informed chamber music orchestras, Australian Haydn Ensemble opens the 75th season promoting music by Mozart and his contemporaries. Single concerts go on sale at The Concourse, Chatswood this week. This renowned ensemble kicks off a celebration season that includes some of Australia’s best chamber musicians

Pepe Newton February 18, 2025

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A transcendent performance of Beethoven by Flinders Quartet

Sydney Mozart Society | Flinders Quartet October 23, 2024, The Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW MENDELSSOHN Capriccio for string quartet in E minor, Op.81 no.3 BEETHOVEN String Quartet in B-flat major, Op.18 no.6 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet in F minor, Op.80 Elizabeth Sellars (violin), Wilma Smith (violin), Helen Ireland (viola), Zoe Knighton (cello) Travelling to this concert my mind wandered back

Alan Holley October 24, 2024

SMS presents two brilliant soloists in Daniel Herscovitch and Clemens Leske

Sydney Mozart Society | Daniel Herscovitch and Clemens Leske September 18, 2024, The Concourse, Chatswood Programme MOZART Adagio and Fugue for two keyboards in C minor, K 426 BARTÓK 7 pieces from Mikrokosmos BEETHOVEN Große Fuge for four hands in B-flat major, Op.134 YATES Sonata for two pianos (after Mozart’s Quintet for piano and winds in E-flat major, K 452)

Tony Burke September 21, 2024

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SXS at SMS: accurate, emphatic, dramatic

Sydney Mozart Society | Southern Cross Soloists May 29, 2024, The Concourse Chatswood, NSW Imagine a typically high standard Mozart Society concert, then add an all-Mozart programme brilliantly conceived, plus a group of nine of the top soloists in Australia and you don’t have to be Nostradamus to predict the result. The Southern Cross Soloists were formed in 1995 and

Tony Burke May 31, 2024

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Sonus Piano Quartet prove how approachable a modern work can be

Sydney Mozart Society | Sonus Piano Quartet November 17, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood NSW I have already praised the programmers for the Sydney Mozart Society recitals and they excelled in their latest offering by the Sonus Piano Quartet. We had hardly sat down before our senses were jolted by a modernistic work, Martinů’s 1st Piano Quartet. Bohuslav Martinů is a

Tony Burke November 18, 2023

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A Great Night with Frank Celata and Friends

Sydney Mozart Society | Frank Celata and Friends! 22 August, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood What a Program header – Frank Celata and Friends! Frank is well known to Sydney Mozart Society followers as an amiable and brilliant clarinettist and it was no surprise to find similarity in his acquaintances. Ola Rudner is also familiar to Chatswoodians, he has made Australia

Tony Burke August 25, 2023

Selby, Haveron and the majesty of the Kreutzer

Sydney Mozart Society | Kathryn Selby and Andrew Haveron May 25, 2023, The Concourse, Chatswood Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata is a momentous work – what other work has a book and a sonata by another composer named after it? Just as the Eroica Symphony did, it changed the course of classical music. It is probably no coincidence that each work was deemed too

Tony Burke May 27, 2023

Sydney Mozart Society’s brave programming wins fans

Sydney Mozart Society| Clemens Leske and Daniel Herscovitch Friday 14 April, The Concourse Chatswood It was brave of the Sydney Mozart Society to put on a programme of music for four piano hands and their bravery was rewarded in spades. Clemens Leske and Daniel Herscovitch both teach at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and have performed together several times. Clemens

Tony Burke April 15, 2023

Sydney Mozart Society, another intriguing, exciting programme from Tinalley

Sydney Mozart Society | Tinalley String Quartet November 3, 2022, The Concourse, Chatswood A larger than average audience attended the latest recital in the excellent series of Sydney Mozart Society concerts. Clearly many were aware of the reputation of the Tinalley Quartet and the enticing programme. The eponymous composer’s string quartet in D minor started the programme. Three of the

Tony Burke November 6, 2022

Long may the Sydney Mozart Society continue… review March 31

Sydney Mozart Society | Frank Celata and Friends March 31, 2022, The Concourse, Chatswood Friends are always welcome particularly when they are musicians of the highest standard, and clarinetist Frank Celata is particularly lucky in this respect, but of course he is a musician of high repute himself. In the latest Sydney Mozart Society concert at Chatswood we heard two

Tony Burke April 4, 2022

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Exuberant Streeton Trio triumphs over adversity

Sydney Mozart Society | Streeton Trio The Concourse Chatswood, March 10, 2022 The Sydney Mozart Society has again triumphed over adversity and Friday’s concert by the familiar Streeton Trio, originally programmed for two years ago, was finally performed. First we heard Mozart’s Piano Trio in C major. Mozart didn’t favour this genre, preferring to write for larger groups, but piano

Tony Burke March 12, 2022

Review: The artistry of Sonus Piano Quartet

Sydney Mozart Society – Sonus Piano Quartet Tues 14th Dec, 2021, The Concourse Chatswood It was great to be back at the Chatswood home of Sydney Mozart Society whose programming has been severely affected by the Covid outbreak. The Society has a long history of providing carefully selected artists playing interesting and impeccably chosen chamber works. The Sonus Piano Quartet

Tony Burke December 17, 2021

Sydney Mozart Society presented an uplifting recital by the Enigma Quartet

We were privileged to be guests of the Enigma Quartet at Chatswood on a balmy Spring evening. The Quartet took shape under the Musica Viva “Rising Stars” program in 2012 and has gone ahead in leaps and bounds since. First violinist Marianne Edwards graduated with a PhD from Sydney University and is Associate Principal Second Violinist with the Sydney Symphony

Tony Burke October 28, 2019

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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

Tony Burke September 30, 2019

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The brilliance of the Sydney Soloists sextet was on full display in their program for the Sydney Mozart Society

Every programme given by the Sydney Mozart Society is carefully thought out in collaboration with the artists. Whether intentional or not, Friday night’s concert was notable for featuring music which to most listeners was to some extent unfamiliar. The performing artists, the Sydney Soloists, were probably more familiar to many in the audience and the decision to play these pieces

Tony Burke August 5, 2019

Selby & Friends provided a vivid evening of Beethoven for the Sydney Mozart Society

The latest Sydney Mozart Society concert was cleverly timed to coincide with the opening of Vivid Chatswood but, fortunately, although the visual aspect was welcoming, we were insulated from the sound effects. On this occasion, Kathryn Selby continued her well-established friendship with the Society, aided by two distinguished musicians. Andrew Haveron was born in London and studied at the Purcell

Tony Burke May 28, 2019

Goldner String Quartet’s mastery was on full display throughout Sydney Mozart Society’s imaginative programme

Why is it that the sound of the Goldner String Quartet is so distinctive? Certainly there is their perfect timing and intonation but there is more than that. I feel sure that I could pick their playing from ten recordings of top quartets just as 80 years ago one could identify the Amadeus quartet even on vinyl. Perhaps the key

Tony Burke April 9, 2019

The Australia Piano Quartet presented a stimulating concert of contrasts for the Sydney Mozart Society

It’s hardly necessary to say that the Sydney Mozart Society, now in its sixty-ninth year, produced another recital of the highest quality. The Australia Piano Quartet is now in its eighth year as Resident Ensemble at Sydney’s University of Technology where it has focused largely on contemporary Australian composers and has worked with the School of Software in incorporating digital and chamber music

Tony Burke March 11, 2019

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