Now in its fourth year, the Blackheath Chamber Music Festival returns with a rich program including Ensemble Offspring and Eliza Shephard’s world premiere performance of a newly commissioned quartet by Harry Sdraulig; the NSW premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s For Theodora by Orava Quartet; harpist Louise Johnson’s journey through the history of music; a farewell performance by the Goldner String Quartet; and John Bell and Tobias Breider’s A Few of Our Favourite Things (John Bell features in My Music on page 66).

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For the final Blackheath Chamber Music Festival concert of 2024 these two renowned string quartets, the Goldner String Quartet and Orava Quartet, will come together to play two glorious string octets—the 19th century Mendelssohn and the contemporary Sdraulig.