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Backstage Music | 2025 – Living, Breathing, Buzzing with Possibility

by Pepe Newton | Apr 5, 2025

Backstage Music | 2025 Season Launch April 4, 2025, Woodburn Creatives, Redfern Forget the plush red velvet and the sacred hush, Backstage Music is doing something different. And if their 2025 season launch is anything to go by, “different” is just what Australian new...

WSO Young Composer award announced for 2025

by Pepe Newton | Apr 4, 2025

WSO YOUNG COMPOSER AWARD Winning Composition | World Premiere 2025 Willoughby Symphony Orchestra Sunday 4 May | The Concourse, Chatswood The Young Composer Award, Australia’s only award of its kind, proudly presented by Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and managed by...

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Symphony Chorus ‘I was Glad’ is pure delight

by Brianna Louwen | Apr 2, 2025

Sydney Philharmonia Choirs | I Was Glad – Cathedral Classics April 1, 2025, Sydney Opera House, NSW 24 hours after the Symphony Chorus took to the Concert Hall stage at the Sydney Opera House, I am still thinking about it. What a delight for a church music junkie like...

The exuberant joy of Bel a cappella’s ‘O Sing!’

by Heidi Hereth | Apr 1, 2025

Bel a cappella | O Sing! 29 March, 2025, St Augustine's Church, Balmain, NSW “O Sing!" - This is what Bel a cappella do - they have been doing it for 30 years, and they do it very well. They did it again with exuberant joy in this beautifully curated program dedicated...

Trifonov and Goerne’s Swan Songs – always amazing and thrilling!

by Pepe Newton | Apr 1, 2025

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra presents | INTERNATIONAL PIANISTS IN RECITAL Sunday 30 March, 2025, City Recital Hall, Sydney DANIIL TRIFONOV piano MATTHIAS GOERNE baritone Tchaikovsky - The Children's Album Schubert - Schwanengesang To open the International Pianists...

Brilliant and self assured playing – Daniil Trifonov with SSO

by Daniel Kaan | Mar 30, 2025

Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Daniil Trifonov performs Rachmaninov 28 March 2025, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, NSW PROGRAM LIADOV The Enchanted Lake , Op. 62 RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 4  in G minor, Op. 40 BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique  Op. 14 i. Daydreams –...