Chamber Music in the New England Since 1954
7pm, 2 April 2020Armidale Town Hall Musica Viva’s inaugural FutureMakers (2016/17), Arcadia Winds are making a great career for themselves. Since their ‘graduation’ from this innovative musical leadership program at the end of 2017, this superb group of musicians have released their eponymous debut EP, launched their own Australian composition prize, and are developing a …
7pm 23 May 2020Lazenby Hall, UNE, Armidale “This new version of Compassion – for string quartet, piano, percussion and double bass – turned out to be wonderfully successful. It created a compact new propulsive energy and a more intimate relationship between instruments and voice.” – The Australian Lior, Voice Tinalley String Quartet Daniel de Borah, …
7pm 3 September 2020Armidale Town Hall The Goldmund Quartet, formed by violinists Florian Schötz and Pinchas Adt, violist Christoph Vandory and cellist Raphael Paratore, is one of the most exciting young string quartets in Europe. Educated by Gerhard Schulz in Stuttgart and Günter Pichler at the Instituto Internacional de Musica de Camera de Madrid, the …
7pm 4 April 2019 Armidale Town Hall Emma Rule | soprano Naomi Crellin | alto Nick Begbie | tenor Luke Thompson | bass Kai Kitamura | vocal percussion The Idea of North has always been renowned for its exceptional ability to connect musically and emotionally with an audience. They take songs people know and songs they don’t …
7pm 25 July 2019 Armidale Town Hall Flinders Quartet (FQ) is instantly recognisable as one of Australia’s most loved chamber music ensembles. A quartet for the twenty-first century, FQ continues its second decade with acknowledged musical skill and maturity. The group’s dynamic and stirring performances of a full spectrum of repertoire have audiences and critics …
7pm 31 August 2019 Armidale Town Hall Australian theatre icon, John Bell AO OBE and internationally acclaimed pianist Simon Tedeschi renew their triumphant partnership with ‘Bright Star’, exploring the life, love and genius of two bright stars of the Romantic era – John Keats and Franz Schubert. Though they never met, these contemporaneous geniuses of literature and …
3pm 24 November 2019 Armidale Town Hall The acclaimed New England Ensemble was established as Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of New England from 1975-1982. The Ensemble was the first full time professional chamber ensemble to be formed outside a capital city in Australia and it quickly achieved national and international recognition in Asia, Europe and America. Andrew …
7pm, Thursday 5 April Armidale Town Hall – 127 Rusden Street “… spellbinding …” Limelight Magazine, April 2016 Internationally renowned musicians Karin Schaupp and Umberto Clerici first shared a concert stage as part of the 2015 Musica Viva Festival, where the combination of guitar and cello proved a major hit. In 2018 they continue their …
7pm, Thursday 3 May Lazenby Hall, University of New England, Armidale The Art of Choral Harmony Sacred and profane, ancient and modern, imported and homegrown: join Sydney Chamber Choir on a musical journey into the heart of beauty. The human voice is the most expressive of all instruments, and this concert features some of the …
Dene Olding, violin Dimity Hall, violin Irina Morozova, viola Julian Smiles, cello Approaching their 25th anniversary in 2020, Australia’s premier string quartet remain in demand internationally as performers and recording artists. With no changes to their line-up since their inception in 1995, the Goldners bring unmatched musical intuition to every phrase. It’s this closeness that …