The American Brass Quintet will conduct a masterclass in conjunction with Musica Viva and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Admission is free and no booking is required.
Information:1800 688 482 or visit musicaviva.com.au/masterclasses
Sydney Independent Opera present an unusual double bill this weekend with its productions of Gustav Holst’s The Wandering Scholar and Puccini’s The Cloak (Il Tabarro). The Wandering Scholar was Holst’s last and most successful opera (he wrote four)*. It is a work in miniature, written in one act for a small orchestra and just four singers (tenor,…
The second concert series of Selby & Friends’ 10th anniversary season in April is entitled Just ‘C’ and features dynamic performances in an intimate and friendly setting. The Australian virtuoso pianist and entrepreneur, Kathryn Selby AM is joined by cellist Clancy Newman and violinist Susie Park in this programme themed around the letter ‘C’, exploring piano trios…
For the past 8 years, a project has been quietly whirring away in one of Sydney’s oldest concert venues in Darlinghurst, the Big Schoolroom at Sydney Grammar School. In 2005, the Sydneian Bach Choir embarked on project to perform every single one of J S Bach’s 200 extant cantatas. This month, that project finally comes to an…
A new work has entered the canon of chamber opera and it was unveiled to Sydney audiences at the City Recital Hall last night. A co-production between Musica Viva and Victorian Opera, Voyage to the Moon is a Baroque pastiche with libretto by Michael Gow and score constructed by Alan Curtis. There is another performance…
Handel’s Messiah, is perhaps the most famous oratorio ever written. Since it was composed in 1742, it has become a work that people seemingly never tire of hearing or performing. It is music infused with great drama and intense emotion, heightened by superb orchestral writing and word painting. As Sir David Willcocks said, “…. Handel was the exponent par excellence…
In this program flautist Laura Chislett and pianist Stephanie McCallum will perform music from their 2015 CD Flute Vox as well as Andrew Ford’s 1993 dramatic soliloquy for solo bass flute, Becalmed. Also on the programme, the premiere of a work written especially for the duo by the Australian composer now resident in Paris, Gerald Glynn….