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    • Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Håkan Hardenberger & the Sydney Symphony

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Described as ‘the cleanest, subtlest trumpeter on earth’ by The Times, Hardenberger is tireless in his quest to explore all the possibilities of his instrument. He has worked with countless contemporary composers to the repertoire for his instrument. Above all else his love of brass music is contagious and he brings…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…
    Vivaldi’s Legacy

    Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Vivaldi’s Legacy

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    In this intimate and poetic program, acclaimed Paris-based violinist Augusta McKay Lodge makes her Australian debut as soloist and Guest Director, shining a light on one of Baroque music’s most fascinating and overlooked figures — Anna Maria della Pietà. A virtuoso who lived and performed at the Venetian orphanage where…

    • SIMA: Comfortable – Hamed Sadeghi

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Hamed Sadeghi presents Comfortable, a new work for an 8-piece ensemble of tar, woodwinds, brass, double bass and percussions that weave together ancient Middle Eastern resonance and contemporary jazz. This is music that fills a room with something hard to name but impossible to ignore. Described by Sydney Morning Herald as "one of…
    Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    Selby & Friends: Bush, Borscht & Bonn

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Listening to Beethoven’s own wonderful piano trio arrangement of his famous Septet, one gets a real sense of what it must have been like to desperately want to play something at home you had only heard played by many artists publicly. This tradition of changing the forces to accommodate everyday…
    Bach & Telemann II

    Pinchgut Opera: Coffee and a Dead Canary

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    A captivating selection of cantatas - in essence, tiny operas-by Bach and Telemann, revealing the theatrical spark of the two Baroque masters. Bach's Coffee Cantata is a witty musical snapshot of 18th-century life, in a playful tug-of-war between a coffee-loving daughter and her disapproving father. In contrast, Telemann's Canary Cantata offers a heartfelt…
    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…

    Omega Ensemble: Sirens

    City Recital Hall Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Dark myths and twisted fantasies Opening with a world premiere from UK composer Anna Clyne performed by guest soloist Nico Fleury (Principal Horn, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Sirens drifts into the shadowed edges of imagination, where fantasy and nature take unexpected and alluring mythical forms. Bringing together an eclectic super-group of…