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Willoughby Symphony Choir | Radiance

Sunday afternoon with two choral masterworks from the Baroque: JS Bach’s Magnificat and Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria. The Magnificat, Mary’s song of praise, is a joyous and celebratory work with complex textures, virtuoso instrumental parts and emotional variety, featuring a five-part choir. Vivaldi’s Gloria also praises God’s majesty with its brilliant melodies, lively rhythms, jubilant and thrilling choruses and more intimate

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Hymn of Praise

Celebrate the boldness and energy of youth when Associate Conductor Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith leads the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), alongside a trio of exuberant Australian works. Hear musical history in the making as the orchestra unveils the winner of the 2026 Young Composer Award, paired with a joyous work, Flight, by the 2017 award-winner and

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Spirit of Christmas

Celebrate the festive season with joyful music as Peter Ellis leads the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Choir in filling The Concourse with holiday cheer. From cherished carols and timeless classics to delightful surprises and revelations, experience the enchantment of the season with family and friends in this heartwarming Christmas concert. Experience a breathtaking arrangement of O Holy Night, while the young

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Last Night of the Proms 2026

Get ready for a night of flag-waving fun as the Last Night of the Proms returns to The Concourse in 2026 in honour of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s 60th anniversary season. Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Dr Nicholas Milton AM is Master of Ceremonies in this beloved tribute to the festive finale of the world’s largest classical music festival, for

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Last Night of the Proms 2026

Get ready for a night of flag-waving fun as the Last Night of the Proms returns to The Concourse in 2026 in honour of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s 60th anniversary season. Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Dr Nicholas Milton AM is Master of Ceremonies in this beloved tribute to the festive finale of the world’s largest classical music festival, for

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WSO performance deserves an Oscar!

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | A Night at the Oscars 16 August, 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW I have often wondered why so many talented composers restrict their output to film music. I imagine what it would be like to have a concert with a Piano Concerto by John Williams followed by a Symphonic Poem by Bernard Herrmann. Certainly many classical

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A packed house for WSO’s stimulating Ode to Joy

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Ode to Joy 2 September, 2025 | The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW No musical event has attracted so much attention and literature as the first performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Vienna in May of 1824. He started its composition two years earlier, although he used ideas from his own Choral Fantasia while the theme for his

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WSO’s Young Composer of the Year 2025 premieres in an enjoyable concert

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | The Lark Ascending May 4, 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The programme for the latest WSO concert could by no stretch of the imagination be called conventional which of course added to its appeal. The effusive Sarah Penicka-Smith gave an introduction to each work in turn and this was widely appreciated by an enthusiastic and receptive

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | 2025 Season Launch

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra (WSO) Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Dr Nicholas Milton AM announced nine exceptional concerts for 2025 encompassing classical masterpieces, heart-stopping film presentations and festive programs that will delight Sydney’s most passionately engaged symphonic audience. When announcing the 2025 season Dr Milton AM was delighted to share the news that 2024 subscription sales for WSO have experienced one

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Tony Burke

KPO’s Resurrection compares favourably to The Proms

Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Mahler 2, Resurrection March 17, 2024, The Concourse, Chatswood NSW I frequently wonder why Mahler started his symphonic works with the aptly named The Titan and followed with an extensive work clearly modelled on Beethoven’s no 9. The short answer is that possibly he didn’t, as it is thought that many of his early manuscripts were

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra launch 2024 Season

Bringing art and culture to the heart of the North Shore, united in a shared vision of music and community Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra, Dr. Nicholas Milton AM and Willoughby Mayor, Tanya Taylor proudly announced the 2024 Willoughby Symphony Orchestra season at a launch held today at The Concourse, Chatswood. Dr Milton said “I

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Willoughby Symphony Orchestra celebrates dedication to music – 2023 Young Composer Award premiere

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Dedications Sunday May 21, The Concourse, Chatswood I came to this concert specifically to hear the world premiere of a new orchestral work from the winner of The Young Composer Award and was delighted to be treated to a full-bodied program that celebrated the power of human connection, paying homage to the profound bonds between composers,

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River City Voices sing Songs of Destiny

River City Voices | Songs of Destiny May 22, 2022, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta On May 15th 2022 Willoughby Symphony Orchestra unveiled the winner of the Young Composer Award in an exciting concert conducted by Associate Conductor Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith. The Young Composer Award is an annual national competition providing young Australian composers the rare opportunity to compose for a full

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Review: Willoughby Symphony transports England to Chatswood…

The Last Night of the Proms Willoughby Symphony The Concourse, December 5 2021 It’s none too easy to get to the UK at present so it was great to have England transported to Chatswood for the Last Night of the Proms, an annual event until Covid – we even got the English weather! Rossini’s Thieving Magpie overture starts with a

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WSO’s Next Chapters a rare treat…

Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Next Chapters The Concourse Concert Hall, live streamed on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Saturday May 22, 2021 If a not completely professional orchestra programs Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 9 then they need to make sure that they have a ripper of a woodwind section and on the evidence of Willoughby Symphony Orchestra’s May program they have that

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Willoughby Symphony Choir and friends’ massive undertaking of “Ode to Joy” was an impressive success!

It is really refreshing to attend an event featuring an amateur orchestra and choir performing with proceeds going to Indigenous education, and doubly so when the work chosen is none less than Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, a massive undertaking even for full time musicians. Peter Ellis hails from Yorkshire and studied at Birmingham and London before making Australia his home in 2002.

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Willoughby Symphony’s Eternity concert took the audience on a ‘rhapsodic journey’

The heart and the alternate reality In an inspiring Sunday afternoon at The Concourse, the epic ferocity of a symphony orchestra in full flight, a passionate and instinctive cello soloist and a magnetic contemporary choral requiem were brought to life by Willoughby Symphony and Choir, conducted by Michelle Leonard OAM. The Eternity concert took the audience on a ‘rhapsodic journey’

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