Salut! Baroque | Medicinal Music Sunday 20 November, Sydney Conservatorium of Music Reflecting on the uncertainty and chaos of the last two years, where the concept of time warped and twisted until it became elastic and unpredictable, it was reassuring — despite yet...
On 9 November 2018, an appreciative audience gathered at Old Government House to experience a recreation of a concert held in exactly the same location on the same date 112 years before, in 1906. The original concert celebrated King Edward VII’s birthday, and the...
As a winter wind whipped through Brisbane swirling leaves and dust, Saint Mary’s Anglican Church in Kangaroo Point provided a serene backdrop to a charming performance by Soirées Musicales Quintette. Founded in 2015, the Brisbane-based ensemble enhances the romantic...
A group email recently arrived in my inbox with an invitation to join a fantasy football league. Not knowing what, or who, the teams or players were, I simply deleted the message. But if I’d been asked to pick my dream-team orchestra, my curiosity would have been...
They don’t make fun like this any more. As Scottish organist and pianist David Gray stepped on to the stage in the Kelvin Grove State College Auditorium, presented by TOSAQ and the Queensland Music Festival, he won the audience’s heart by saying Brisbane is his...
As headlines roared about the UK election and the ongoing woeful Brexit saga, the 4MBS Festival of Classics concert Mozart and the English Bach, presented by the Queensland Choir and Sinfonia of St Andrew’s, celebrated an unshakeable historic British connection. The...
The cavernous interior of Studio 1 at The Judith Wright Centre in Fortitude Valley was transformed into an intimate audio-visual surround-sound and surround-view space with Brisbane-based collective Argo’s first 2017 concert, Saturation. Guided by artistic director...