Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney
Utzon Music 2025 | Marshall McGuire and Simon Martyn-Ellis
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaA rare chance to hear two exquisite instruments, beautifully played — Marshall McGuire (harp) and Simon Martyn-Ellis (theorbo) in solos and duos, old and new, by Froberger, Leonarda, Glanville-Hicks, Lim, Kapsberger, Chance, Castaldi. Harps and lutes — in their many forms — have long been associated with Arcadia. Played by angels in frescos and nobility […]
Utzon Music 2025 | Bronzewing
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAustralian performer-composers Katie Yap and Donald Nicolson entwine early music gems and lyrical new compositions for the poetic combination of viola and harpsichord: Strozzi, von Bingen, Telemann, Nicolson/Yap and Sheppard. Katie Yap and Donald Nicolson share a passion for early music, and lyrical new music inspired by old compositional forms and the distinctive sound worlds […]
Utzon Music 2025 | Genevieve Lacey & James Crabb
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCharismatic Scottish-Australian classical accordion maestro James Crabb traverses musical centuries with Australia’s recorder virtuoso, Genevieve Lacey, performing music by Bach, Ortiz, Palestrina, Keller, Barbeler, Beamish, and traditional Scottish tunes. Recorder and accordion are a rare combination. Strictly speaking, there’s only a tiny amount of music specifically written for these unassuming instruments. Yet they carry many […]
Utzon Music 2025 | Sjaella
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaSublime singing from German a cappella ensemble Sjaella, in an ethereal program celebrating their Utzon Room debut: Purcell, Janequin, European folk song arrangements, and a gentle new work by Alice Chance. It’s hard not to contemplate the celestial when you hear German ensemble Sjaella sing together, unaccompanied. With logic-defying interconnectedness, every breath, note and musical […]
Utzon Music 2025 | Emily Sun & Slava Grigoryan
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaTwo beloved artists in a new duo: international star violinist returning home, Emily Sun, and multi-ARIA-winning guitarist Slava Grigoryan, playing Piazzolla, Paganini, Locatelli, de Sarasate and a premiere by Andrew Howes. It’s a joy to welcome the premiere of a new partnership between two rightly prized Australian artists, and to hear for the first time […]
Utzon Music 2025 | Annie Jacobs-Perkins
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaAn Utzon and Australian debut from rising star cellist: Berlin-based-American Annie Jacobs-Perkins, playing a strikingly original solo program: dall'Abaco, Madsen, Marais, Salonen, Norman and Bach. Cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins takes us on a fascinating interior voyage through sound. The inventiveness of eighteenth-century Italian composer and cellist Joseph dall'Abaco’s Caprices are a recurring thread in this program, heard between […]
Utzon Music 2025 | Norwegian Tradition Reimagined
Sydney Opera House: Utzon Room, Sydney 2 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaA rare chance to hear a Norwegian supergroup fusing traditional music and contemporary evocations of the north: Benedicte Maurseth, Morten Qvenild, Mats Eilertsen and Håkon Stene. Hardinger fiddle is the soul of traditional Norwegian music. Originally a seventeenth-century instrument, similarly sized to the violin, it has eight strings, four of which are ‘sympathetic’, creating extra […]