Moorambilla Voices | Riversong 2024: Spirit of Water 28-29 September 2024, Dubbo Regional Theatre No less than five new Australian premiere works, nine composers and a new digital film score came alive at the Moorambilla Voices Gala Concert, Riversong 2024: Spirit...
Articles + Reviews By Lliane Clarke
Pinchgut Opera’s sonorous, sombre, reverent Miserere refreshes the spirit
Pinchgut Opera | Eternal Light August 24, 2024, City Recital Centre, Sydney, NSW Allegri, Schmelzer and Biber with Cantillation and Orchestra of the Antipodes conducted by Erin Helyard. How can one piece of music endure in our human hearts for nearly 400 years? The...
Enter the electrifying realm of BackStage Music’s experimental performance…
IMPOSTO| Presented by BackStage Music 14 June 2024 Woodburn Creatives On a wet winter night, I was drawn like a moth to the vibrant lights of Woodburn Creatives warehouse in Redfern. I stepped into the electrifying realm of BackStage Music's experimental performance....
NSW Doctors Orchestra – medicinal balm for the soul
NSW Doctors Orchestra | The Space Between the Stars 26 May, 2024, Concourse Concert Hall, Chatswood, NSW Conducted by Joanna Drimatis There are a wealth of anecdotes about music being the best medicine, and the prescription to cure most ills, and the NSW Doctors...
Cut Paste Play – new musical territories in low-stakes spaces
Cut Paste Play Festival 23-24 March 2024, presented by the music box project, Church Street Studios, Camperdown, Sydney audiences were treated to an mind-bending weekend of new music in the Cut Paste Play festival at Church Street Studios presented by the music box...
Opera Scholarship Finals 2022 – And the winner is…
Sydney Eisteddfod | Opera Scholarship Finals 2022 Sunday 26 June, 2022, The Concert Hall, Chatswood Concourse Featuring the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr Nicholas Milton AM Compere Damian Whiteley Kristin Astouroghlian, mezzosoprano Matthew Avery,...
HERE, a joyous collage of sound, vision and poetry
Here May 30, 2022, Annandale Creative Arts Centre It still feels strange going out at night to a live concert. I certainly haven’t ‘moved on’ from COVID. Despite gingerly venturing forth to watch theatre and even perform myself, I am still living with the social...
Review: Weichnachtsfreude
Bach Akademie Australia Christ Church St Laurence, Friday November 13, 2020 In the first orchestral concert for Christ Church St Laurence since COVID struck down the performing arts, the exquisite Bach Akademie Australia chamber ensemble presented two intimate evening...
What we’ve been up to … Lliane + Voices of Women
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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...
Selby & Friends’ “The Game Changers” an intriguing and fascinating program of revolutionary composers
Elena Kats-Chernin’s Blue Silence for Piano Trio must be one of the most stunning introductory pieces to a recital. Written in 2006 for her son suffering from schizophrenia, the piece is an exquisite journey into meditation and peace. I defy anyone to listen live to...