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Articles + Reviews By Kate Tribe
2020 Festival calendar | 50 festivals to attend, support or follow for program news
Wondering what festivals are on in Australia in 2020? We've tracked down 50. A festival at a winery, city or regional town? All inclusive or flexibility to pick and choose? All arts, music, period, an instrument? You're covered in this list. January NSW | Sydney |...
Farewell Huntington Estate Music Festival
November marked the 30th and final Huntington Estate Music Festival. It had become interwoven with so many parts of my life. My first festival was in 2007, when I was 33. I was terrified before that festival. The main theme going through my mind, after "what do you...
Introducing you to River City Voices!
River City Voices is a not-for-profit auditioned "symphonic" style choir based in Parramatta, western Sydney. They will perform large scale classical and contemporary choral works under the artistic direction of Sarah Penicka-Smith. Aiming to become integral and...
Jenny Duck-Chong on 20 years of Halcyon
Kate Tribe had a wonderful Q&A with Halcyon’s co-founder and Artistic Director, mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong. Kate: Twenty years is a wonderful milestone for an organisation. When my Market Research business was at that point, I remember looking back and thinking...
Backstage Music was an ideal way to finish the week
BackStage Music on Friday night was exactly what my brother and I needed. The week had been fairly crazy and we needed to mentally close the door, allowing the weekend door to open. For me, choosing what to do with my time when not at my full time job, is selecting...
Alan Holley talks about his works being performed by Sirius Chamber Ensemble
In the lead up why you need high quality trenbolone for sale to Sirius Chamber Ensemble's concert on Friday 23 June, 2017, I interviewed Alan Holley who composed most of the works in the program. Kate: Sirius Chamber Ensemble has performed several of your compositions...
Alan Holley: Hamerings CD launch
I've been to a feast of music combining with visual arts recently and it is an excellent combination, not just because of the creative collaboration, but because they combine to create an excellent space to be surrounded and absorbed in the music you're hearing. The...
A beautiful new acoustic instrument ‘Yaybahar’ by Görkem Şen
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yaybahar is a beautiful new instrument created by Görkem Şen from Istanbul, Turkey. It is an acoustic instrument where the vibrations from the strings are transmitted through coiled springs to frame drums and converted to sound by...
Australia Quartet’s Transfigured Night was a night of celebration
Australia Quartet celebrated Halloween with Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (‘Transfigured Night’), Schumann’s beloved Piano Quartet and Australian composer, Elena Kats-Chernin’s irresistible work, ‘Scherzino’. The night had quite a celebratory feel which was wonderful -...