Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Mozart and Bruckner 9 April, 2025, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW It’s refreshing to see the continuing trend of opening a concert with a composition by a contemporary Australian artist and the “overture” to this mammoth concert by the SSO...
Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Dvorak and Tchaikovsky March 9, 2025, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The KPO followed the now customary programming by starting the year with a work by a contemporary home-bred composer, namely Harry Sdraulig who has achieved...
Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Wonder November 24, 2024, The Concourse Chatswood, NSW Brahms Violin Concerto In D Major Op. 77 Beethoven Symphony No. 5 In C Minor Op. 67 I occasionally dream that I’m in Vienna just before Christmas in 1808. Snow is thick on the...
Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Rhapsody in Blue & Scheherazade NOV 17, 2024, The Concourse, Chatswood I have often wondered how the bird sounds so typical of Peter Sculthorpe’s music are produced by the strings. Apparently, the bow is applied continuously...
Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Elgar's Enigma Variations October 26, 2024, Sydney Opera House, NSW NICOLAS ELLIS conductor NOBUYUKI TSUJII piano It’s surprising that when one looks at the list of blind pianists over the years, the great majority have been primarily...
North Sydney Symphony Orchestra | September Concert September 28, 2024, Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney, NSW The friendly rivalry between the North Sydney and the Willoughby Symphony Orchestras (surely two of the best community orchestras in the world) was renewed at...
Sydney Mozart Society | Daniel Herscovitch and Clemens Leske September 18, 2024, The Concourse, Chatswood Programme MOZART Adagio and Fugue for two keyboards in C minor, K 426 BARTÓK 7 pieces from Mikrokosmos BEETHOVEN Große Fuge for four hands in B-flat major, Op.134...
Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra | Mozart & Brahms August 25, 2024, St Ives Uniting Church, NSW An exciting programme at St Ives Uniting Church included my favourite symphony, Brahms no 2, one of my ”Desert Island Discs” in fact. Luke Spicer, a very experienced...
Willoughby Symphony Orchestra | Rhapsody July 27, 2024, The Concourse, Chatswood, NSW The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra under its now famous conductor Dr Nicholas Milton goes from strength to strength. I say 'famous' because Nicholas also leads prominent orchestras...
Selby & Friends | Jewels in the Crown July 14, 2024, Turramurra Uniting Church, NSW An Antarctic blast did not prevent a full house for the latest in the Selby & Friends series of concerts with its enticing programme clearly a factor. Clarinettist Lloyd Van’t...