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Bach, bossa and beyond – beautifully played by AGQ

Australian Guitar Quartet | Bach, Bossa and Beyond February 13, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney, NSW The members of the Australian Guitar Quartet (AGQ) are Vladimir Gorbach, Andrew Blanch and Leonard and Slava Grigoryan. The Grigoryan brothers were part of Saffire, that existed in the early 2000s, and was the only other group that appear to have been known as

Guest Reviewer February 16, 2025

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Virtuosic performances at 2023 Sydney Chamber Music Festival

Sydney Chamber Music Festival 2023 | Bridget Bolliger with Vladimir Gorbach and friends 10th September, 2023, Manly Art Gallery and Museum Bridget Bolliger – Flute Vladimir Gorbach – Guitar Andrew Jezek – Viola Tim Nankervis – Cello On a perfect ‘northern beaches of Sydney’ Sunday afternoon an intimate concert of new and old music was given as part of

Alan Holley September 14, 2023

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Welcome back to Sydney Chamber Music Festival… what a wonderful evening!

Sydney Chamber Music Festival | Revival October 16, 2022, Manly Art Gallery After a three year hiatus due to Covid, it was a pleasure to see the Sydney Chamber Music Festival return to the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, where we were surrounded by the wonderful drawings of Salvatore Zoffrea, the gallery’s current exhibition. The Sunday night program was titled

Heidi Hereth October 19, 2022

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Murakawa + Gorbach in secret passages under the city

We’re in Buenos Aires, sipping on an Argentinian Malbec and watching the sultry shadows of dancers glance off the blue lit walls of the secret underground portico hosting tonight’s clandestine milonga… oh wait, my imagination got away from me for a moment, we’re in an old coal train tunnel in inner Sydney harbour suburbia, and the wine is actually a

Pepe Newton February 19, 2022

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Ensemble Offspring Sings an Ambitious Ode to the 90s

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, June 5, 2021 Ensemble Offspring’s latest project The Surge was an ode to the 1990s and its impact on Australian life. Drawing on a host of themes – environmental concerns, Indigenous relations, the emergence of the internet and the flowering of the arts sector in Australia – the project impressively weaved together these disparate elements into a unique

Adam Jeffrey June 15, 2021

Q&A with Halcyon’s Jenny Duck-Chong ahead of IN NATURE

Ahead of Halcyon’s concert, In Nature, on Saturday 12th October, classikON’s Phillipa spoke to Halcyon’s Artistic Director, co-founder and mezzo-soprano, Jenny Duck-Chong about nature and poetry as artistic inspiration, the importance of supporting new music, and the unique soundscapes In Nature will evoke. classikON: Why do you think it is that composers throughout history, and still today, turn to nature as their inspiration?

Phillipa van Helden October 11, 2019

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