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Beethoven’s Eighth

Australian Haydn Ensemble: Beethoven’s Eighth

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
This superb program revolves around the tantalizing enigma of the Immortal Beloved letters. AHE performs Beethoven unplugged, while young Sydney composer Ella Macens embraces baroque tuning with a new commission inspired by Ludwig’s passionate Declarations. Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony is an utterly delightful homage to Haydn, full of wit and humour. Also on the…

City Recital Hall: Meg Washington

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Meg Washington premieres her brand-new album GEM at MPAC. This born storyteller launches her hauntingly beautiful, genre-bending new music with a full band, in an electrifying and soulful live concert. Meg is this year’s guest artist-in-residence at MPAC, collaborating with the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music. She will premiere…
Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…
Editor's Choice Piotr Anderszewski

Musica Viva Australia: Piotr Anderszewski

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Fresh from his triumphant performances at the Edinburgh Festival, pianist Piotr Anderszewski brings his intelligence, restless curiosity and joy to Brahms’ 12 pieces from Opp. 116– 119, selections from JS Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major. Known for his uncompromising standards – he famously walked out…
Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…
Editor's Choice Cocteau’s Circle

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Cocteau’s Circle

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Richard Tognetti and the ACO close their 50th- anniversary season in style, stepping into the surreal world of 1920s Paris. Directed by Circa’s Yaron Lifschitz, this concert-cum-cabaret features soprano Chloe Lankshear with drag artist and baritone Le Gateau Chocolat as maître d’. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s avant-garde circle and the…

Sydney Chamber Choir: Bach Mass in B minor

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Celebrate the brilliance of Bach’s final and greatest choral masterpiece: his magnificent Mass in B minor. Bach’s music resonates beyond place and time; reaching up to the splendour of heaven, it draws on the full spectrum of human emotion—grief and joy intertwined, anguish and elation soaring in intricate harmonies. Dive…

Selby & Friends: Epic Diva

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
Our 2025 Season comes to a close with a blockbuster program of big piano quartets filled to the brim with the most gorgeous melodies and boasting two of our most beloved chamber musicians in Liz Layton and Julian Smiles with an introduction to another brilliant young Australian artist, violist Isabella…
Messiah

Pinchgut Opera: Messiah

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
This year, we celebrate the holiday season with one of the most beloved works of Baroque music, Handel’s Messiah. Renowned for its profound beauty and spiritual depth, Messiah isa deeply moving and transcendent experience. Since its premiere in Dublin in 1742, Messiah has become one of the most performed choral…
Messiah

Pinchgut Opera: Messiah

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
This year, we celebrate the holiday season with one of the most beloved works of Baroque music, Handel’s Messiah. Renowned for its profound beauty and spiritual depth, Messiah isa deeply moving and transcendent experience. Since its premiere in Dublin in 1742, Messiah has become one of the most performed choral…
Messiah

Pinchgut Opera: Messiah

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
This year, we celebrate the holiday season with one of the most beloved works of Baroque music, Handel’s Messiah. Renowned for its profound beauty and spiritual depth, Messiah isa deeply moving and transcendent experience. Since its premiere in Dublin in 1742, Messiah has become one of the most performed choral…

Messiah

Pinchgut Opera: Messiah

City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
This year, we celebrate the holiday season with one of the most beloved works of Baroque music, Handel’s Messiah. Renowned for its profound beauty and spiritual depth, Messiah isa deeply moving and transcendent experience. Since its premiere in Dublin in 1742, Messiah has become one of the most performed choral…