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Editor's Choice A Musical Awakening

Australian Chamber Orchestra: A Musical Awakening

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Directed by ACO Principal Cello Timo-Veikko Valve, this soul-stirring concert explores music’s power to console, uplift and renew. Recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey joins the ACO for the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang’s flute and echo. Spanning 900 years, the program moves from Hildegard von Bingen’s 12th-century hymn Ave…

Editor's Choice Gershwin & Shostakovich

Australian Chamber Orchestra: Gershwin & Shostakovich

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Celebrating the indomitable voice of the individual, Ukrainian-born pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk makes his ACO debut performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, in which he is joined by trumpeter David Elton. Both composers affirm the right to self-expression – Gershwin through exuberant freedom, Shostakovich in defiance of…

Mozart’s Clarinet

Musica Viva Australia: Mozart’s Clarinet

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Historical clarinettist Nicola Boud, cellist Simon Cobcroft and early keyboardist Erin Helyard explore the brave new sounds of eighteenth-century Vienna. Travel back in time with these questing early music specialists to discover Mozart and Beethoven as if for the first time. Vienna, 1785. Johann Friedrich Schink is blown away by…

Northern Lights

Musica Viva Australia: Northern Lights

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Fearless Norwegian violin virtuoso Johan Dalene makes his Australian debut with much-loved pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith, playing Ravel, Grieg, Rautavaara and a new commission from dynamic young composer Jack Frerer. Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene grabbed the world’s attention when he won the prestigious Carl Nielsen International Competition in 2019, and he…

Hollywood Songbook

Musica Viva Australia: Hollywood Songbook

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Signum Saxophone Quartet and renegade opera star, Ali McGregor, reclaim the Hollywood Songbook in a journey from moody monochrome to vibrant technicolour. Trip the light fantastic from Berlin to Hollywood, via a Shakespearean tragedy, a Broadway musical and a Wild West rodeo in this sonic documentary of turbulent times.

La Musica Notturna

Omega Ensemble: La Musica Notturna

Newcastle City Hall Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Celebrated cellist and conductor Umberto Clerici guest directs a musical exposé of the cello that vibrates across style, tradition and time. A cellist and composer of extraordinary technical skill, Luigi Boccherini's "La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid" transports you to the lively streets of Madrid at night, filled with…