Sydney Philharmonia Choirs Easter Concert with ARCO

Join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs for the ultimate Easter musical experience – a rare performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s 1841 interpretation of Bach’s revered St Matthew Passion, performed in historically informed style on 19th-century period instruments and conducted by renowned choral conductor Sydney Philharmonia Choirs’ Associate Music Director, Elizabeth Scott.

This remarkable concert will be presented for one night only in the magnificent surrounds of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on Thursday April 17. It’s an exceptional opportunity to experience the music as Mendelssohn himself had envisioned it, alive with the Romantic-era’s expanded volume, colours and textures.

AussieTheatre.com
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ABC Radio - National Afternoons: Interview with Rachael Beesley

Hear host Bridgitte Duclos chat to co-artistic director Rachael Beesley about her work playing and conducting, what makes music Romantic and ARCO’s performances at the Peninsula Summer Music Festival in Flinders, Victoria from 4-5 January.

Bridgitte Duclos, ABC Radio - National Afternoons
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Casey Radio interview about Peninsula Summer Music Festival

Hear violinist and co-artistic director Rachael Beesley chat to host Leigh Drew on Casey Radio, Melbourne, about the beautiful chamber music and instruments ARCO is bringing to the Peninsula Summer Music Festival.

Hear full interview. (click 20 Dec Showbiz and scroll forward to 1:05:45)

Peninsula Summer Music Festival returns this January

Music lovers will descend on the Mornington Peninsula in January for a week of exquisite chamber and ensemble musical performances at the annual Peninsula Summer Music Festival.

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The 2025 Festival begins on Saturday 4 January with three of Australia’s brightest emerging musicians to perform showcase works for violin, viola and double bass. Helena Kozdra (violin), Neil Wang (viola), and Jude Hill (double bass) make up the Young Mannheim Symphonists – a prestigious program from the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO) that supports young musicians as they begin their careers in historically informed performance. Accompanied by acclaimed pianist Donald Nicolson, the talented trio will perform works from Wanhal, Mozart, Glinka and Dittersdorf at St John’s Anglican Church in Flinders.

Australian Arts Review.
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YMS 2024 NSW State Academy

Hear ARCO co-artistic director Nicole van Bruggen chat with 2MBS Fine Music Breakfast presenter Stephen Gard about this week’s Academy, what participants are learning about HIP, and the dynamic concert at 3:30pm on Saturday 4 October in Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium.

Stephen Gard, 2MBS Fine Music
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'The Sunrise': Interview with ABC's Kaitlyn Sawrey

As ARCO launched their tour ‘The Sunrise’ in August 2024 from Brisbane to Bundaberg, clarinettist Nicole van Bruggen sat down to chat with Kaitlyn Sawrey at ABC Sunshine Coast for their Drive afternoon show. Nicole talked about Mozart’s basset clarinet, her own rare replica of that instrument, and how it features in ARCO’s brand-new commissioned work ‘Wavelength’ by Brisbane composer Nicole Murphy, premiering on the tour in Brisbane, Caloundra, Noosa, Maryborough and Bundaberg.

Kaitlyn Sawrey, ABC Sunshine Coast
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Classical music comes to Maryborough

Fraser Coast music lovers will have the opportunity to meet and watch some of Australia’s best classical musicians perform in Maryborough next month.

Mayor George Seymour said the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s ‘The Sunrise’ concert would be held at St. Stephen’s Uniting Church in Maryborough on Tuesday 1 September from 6pm to 7:15pm.

Maryborough Sun.

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