Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th December, 2022 at 3.00pm For over 80 years, the Radio Community Chest has brought audiences an annual Handel Messiah to support local charities. In 2022, I have the great pleasure of joining the Radio Community Chest as bass soloist. I...
At the end of this month, Sydney-based opera company The Cooperative will perform an exciting new production of Mozart and Da Ponte's operatic staple, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). The opera is adapted from Pierre Beamarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro (the...
Artists and crew from NSW and Victoria continue to endure weeks of tough lockdowns in Australia, as arts industry operators suffer their long wait to return to work when restrictions ease. The ongoing COVID pandemic in Australia has continued to provide ‘no respite’...
Steel City Strings – 2020 Digital Season | Oct // Nov // Dec Across October, November and December 2020, Steel City Strings will perform its inaugural Digital Season. Each month, the Wollongong-based chamber orchestra will release a forty-minute performance comprised...
ACO Transfigured | 7PM Wednesday, 9th September 2020 | City Recital Hall, Sydney To say that it was ‘relieving’ to attend a live concert at this point in Australia’s battle with COVID-19 would be the understatement of the year. The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO)...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Whilst concert halls and theatres across Australia remain dark amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, newly formed experimental improvised music duo Sumn Conduit have released TRACK: a fifty-five minute composition conceived in real time in...
Throughout the month of May, Steel City Strings – an APRA Award-Winning string ensemble hailing from Wollongong, NSW – launched a fundraising campaign to keep the music going through the pandemic and help the orchestra stay alive to make it out of performance...
WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO | This series, introduced in our classikON What's ON (subscribe here), shares our Ambassadors thoughts at this time. They are voices of the audience, with a range of knowledge and history with music, for some music is their life and others it is...
To musicians and music-lovers alike, the longing for live music to return is becoming overwhelming. Week after week I receive notifications from my Google Calendar of a concert I was to attend, a performance engagement I was supposed to have, a concert I was supposed...
As a sizeable audience took their places in the pews of Edmund Blackett's Gothic Revival church of St. Paul’s Anglican in Burwood, a sole rousing drum marked the opening of this final concert for Consort 8 in 2019. Appropriately, the program featured music for Advent...