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
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 …
Director of Music Gary Stavrou addresses the audience during the concert.
The three works heard in this latest concert from The Balmain Sinfonia were sufficiently varied to showcase the interpretative range of this orchestra. The works dated from the first …
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 …
The Balmain Sinfonia is always a capable collaborator with the instrumental soloist in each of their concerts. This latest partnership was no exception, as the orchestra sympathetically accompanied Sydney based pianist Clemens Leske in Beethoven’s fourth piano concerto. The dialogue …
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 …
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 …