Above: Tinel Dragoi performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 5 with the Balmain Sinfonia. Featured image: Director of Music for Balmain Sinfonia, Gary Stavrou OAM
This was Balmain Sinfonia’s 100th concert, and the orchestra’s popular contribution to the local performance scene
Maria Lindsay performs Tommy Tycho’s Concerto For Violin and String Orchestra. Images by Geoff Sirmai.
The new venue for this orchestra is the performing space at the Actors Centre in Leichhardt’s Italian forum. The space and its full, true acoustic …
The Balmain Sinfonia and its loyal audience faced the result of a logistical challenge in the final concert for 2015. Due to a piano being unavailable at the venue, and despite previous concert advertising, guest soloist and acclaimed Australian …
The first Balmain Sinfonia concert for 2015 at the Macquarie Theatre presented a charming and varied programme of works by native French composers or works which received their premieres in France by composers established there. The interesting diversity of programmed …
Throughout 2014, The Balmain Sinfonia has presented concerts featuring collaborations with fine soloists. Its programmes surround the collaborative work with landmark compositions of the orchestral genre. These works have been challenging and substantial and have exploited the orchestra’s ability to …
Romantic Period orchestral music is popular for its drama, programmatic and literary references and exciting climaxes. This style of music is often present at Balmain Sinfonia concerts. Its recent programme did not disappoint the loyal followers of this orchestra in …
In this final concert of its 2013 season the Balmain Sinfonia was typically joined by a soloist, or in this case, two soloists. The playing of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major K 364 was evidence yet again of …
This Balmain Sinfonia concert offered once again a broad range of musical genres, some audience participation and capable concert event organisation. The afternoon’s highlight was the addition of cello soloist Georg Pedersen. He showed his talent as a concerto soloist …
The Balmain Sinfonia made a triumphant return on the last day of June with its second concert of the year at its home, the newly refurbished Macquarie Theatre, Macquarie University, North Ryde.
This program presented a substantial and interesting array …