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    • HORIZON ORCHESTRAL STUDIO: Rapture & Ruin

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Rapture & Ruin continues the inaugural 2026 Horizon Classical Series, presented by Horizon Orchestral Studio, an emerging artistic development platform dedicated to forming emerging conductors, soloists, musicians and audiences through deeply human orchestral experiences rooted in mentorship, artistic excellence and cultural leadership. The concert features pianist Calvin Abdiel, Third Prize…

    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: Love, Loss & Madness

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Bel canto tales of love, loss and madness from 19th-century Italy, told by some of Australia’s most brilliant singers, using all the chiaroscuro and passion of the human voice against a lush backdrop of historical strings, winds and brass. Based on groundbreaking new research by Prof. Neal Peres Da Costa,…

    Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra: YMS 2026 National Academy Concert

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Hear Australia's brilliant national HIP youth orchestra in the finale concert for ARCO’s internationally-acclaimed Young Mannheim Symphonists 2026 National Academy, inspired by and playing side-by-side with members of the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra. Featuring Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Suk's Serenade for Strings, Richard Strauss' Serenade for Winds, and Mendelssohn's thrilling…

    • Bohemian Rhapsody

    Salut! Baroque: Bohemian Rhapsody

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “If the Bohemians had the advantages enjoyed by the Italians they would surpass them. They are perhaps the most musical race in all Europe”. Charles Burney (1773) The celebrations for the crowning of Charles VI as King of Bohemia in Prague in 1723 included an opera performance by 200 musicians…

    • Invitation to the Dance

    Salut! Baroque: Invitation to the Dance

    Verbrugghen Hall Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    “Music and dance are all you need.” Molière: Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) Dance and diplomacy were inseparable at Louis XIV’s opulent palace in Versailles. Every aspect of the palace was designed to reinforce the King’s absolute authority, and Louis protected his political power through pageantry. In appointing the Italian-born musician,…