Isles of Light

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Isles of Light

Sydney Opera House Sydney
The British Isles boast a magnificent anthology of music grounded in lush, poetic landscapes and thriving cities. This concert will transport you there. British violin and viola virtuoso Lawrence Power makes his ACO debut directing music from Thomas Tallis’ evocative theme - made famous by Vaughan Williams - to the…

UKARIA: James Ehnes with Orion Weiss

Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit
Superstar Canadian violinist James Ehnes joins forces with his longtime duo partner, the celebrated American pianist Orion Weiss, to present a recital of duo repertoire. Ehnes is one of the great violinists on the global stage: a fixture as concerto soloist with orchestras like the New York and London Philharmonics and the Boston…

Chimera Ensemble: Light and Shade

Church of the Resurrection, Swanbourne 105 Shenton Road, Swanbourne
Join Chimera Ensemble for a beautiful concert full of contrasts, performed by Rebecca Glorie (violin), Daniel Schmitt (viola), Melinda Forsythe (cello) and Liam Wooding (piano). The concert includes light refreshments.

Australian Chamber Choir: Great Romantic Voices: Middle Park

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle Park 210-218 Richardson St, Middle Park
Middle Park In the hands of Romantics like Bruckner and Brahms, music became increasingly expressive, harmonically inventive, passionate and theatrical. In the twentieth century, composers like Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Amy Beach and Samuel Barber resisted the atonality and serialism embraced by their contemporaries and continued to explore the…
Glories of Baroque Opera

Arioso Chamber Ensemble: Glories of Baroque Opera

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 115 Eumundi Road, Noosaville
From the heart-rending 'Lascia ch’io pianga'(Let me weep) from Handel’s opera Rinaldo to the dramatic Frost aria from Kind Arthur by Purcell, this program of quintessential Baroque arias is sure to transport and delight audiences. Dance music from Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Rameau’s Danse des sauvages will have audiences…

Editor's Choice The Gesualdo Six

The Parish Church of St James’ King Street: The Gesualdo Six – Hemispheres

St James Church, Sydney 173 King St, Sydney
Renowned for its consort singing, The Gesualdo Six begins its Australian tour at MONA’s Elektra – Anselm Kiefer’s colossal concrete amphitheatre. In Sydney, Lux Aeterna spans Tallis, Gesualdo, Tavener and contemporary composers including Joanna Marsh and Richard Rodney Bennett, while Hemispheres is a collaborative program of luminous polyphony with St James’ Choir. The British vocal…