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    • Carnival of the Animals

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Carnival of the Animals

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What better way to introduce children to the sounds of the orchestra than Saint-Saëns’ beloved Carnival of the Animals? With plodding double-bass elephants, pecking piano-and-string hens and graceful cello swans, this piece has all the fun and fascination of a trip to the zoo. Alex Turley’s Animalia adds an Australian…
    Carnival of the Animals

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Carnival of the Animals

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What better way to introduce children to the sounds of the orchestra than Saint-Saëns’ beloved Carnival of the Animals? With plodding double-bass elephants, pecking piano-and-string hens and graceful cello swans, this piece has all the fun and fascination of a trip to the zoo. Alex Turley’s Animalia adds an Australian…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Listen to This – Discover Beethoven

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Listen to This is an evening of musical discovery like no other, hosted by Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey. Part performance, part guided tour, this unique event offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Beethoven’s music works. Few figures have had a greater influence on the world, and especially on music,…

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Umberto Clerici Conducts Dvořák

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    The music that we hear as children is forever etched into our memories. Umberto Clerici conducts this richly textured program featuring music by two composers who grew up to conquer the world’s concert halls but who never forgot their roots in rural areas of eastern Europe. Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony is…
    Bryce Dessner & the Sydney Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Bryce Dessner & the Sydney Symphony

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Known to many from American rock band The National, Dessner is also a leading figure in contemporary classical music. He ‘slips in and out of musical guises with disarming ease…his gorgeous and full-hearted music’ (NPR) blurring the lines between genres, shaped by collaborations with icons like Steve Reich and Philip…
    Bryce Dessner & the Sydney Symphony

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Bryce Dessner & the Sydney Symphony

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Known to many from American rock band The National, Dessner is also a leading figure in contemporary classical music. He ‘slips in and out of musical guises with disarming ease…his gorgeous and full-hearted music’ (NPR) blurring the lines between genres, shaped by collaborations with icons like Steve Reich and Philip…

    • Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Isata Kanneh-Mason in Recital

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Acclaimed as ‘a profound and greatly gifted artist’ (Gramophone) and ‘a pianist who makes lines sing beautifully and virtuosic passages dance,’ (BBC Music Magazine), this captivating pianist brings her energy and precision to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. The jaw-dropping virtuosity, power and nuance demanded by these big works…
    Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven & Tchaikovsky

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is one of the most famous in the violin repertoire, breath-taking whether you’re hearing it for the first time or the hundredth. The thrilling climax of the first movement, where the soloist’s runs are picked up by the orchestra, feels like a fire catching. In her Sydney…