This quartet comprises four professional musicians. They are from some of Australia’s finest orchestras and ensembles .All of them are women ..Marianne Edwards, Kerry Martin, Elizabeth Woolnough and Rowena Macneish. Some of them started out as buskers …
Last weekend the Acacia Quartet returned to the Independent for another eclectic program of mostly modern music. They opened with the program’s namesake ‘Fratres’ or ‘Brothers’ written by one who is considered the most widely performed modern composer in …
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A most enchanting concert, strikingly combining Baroque and contemporary musical styles. Evergreen Ensemble’s SNOW IN SUMMER at the Independent was part of the theatre’s delicious Prelude in Tea series and launches their CD of the same title. Some of …
From Gershwin to Charlie Chaplin, NICK RUSSONIELLO & THE GOLDEN AGE QUARTET will thrill listeners with their program of American classics. The saxophone soars, sings and swings as award winning saxophonist Nick Russoniello performs with unrivalled virtuosity on an original …
NUMBER ONES : Featuring some exquisite, heavenly playing this was a magnificent concert by the Seraphim Trio of three piano trios, a delightful rather striking combination of ‘firsts’.
The renowned Seraphim Trio – Helen Ayres, Anna Goldsworthy and Tim Nankervis…
Independent young artist opera company, Operantics, presents Mozart’s ‘La Finta Giardiniera’ this October for a limited season at the Independent Theatre.
Sandrina (aka Marchioness Violante Onesti) is La Finta Giardiniera: betrayed and abandoned by her lover, Count Belfiore, and now …
Johann Strauss delicious operetta with its catchy tunes premiered on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna and has been part of the regular repertoire ever since. Opera Australia often perform it on New Year’s …
“TIDES FLUSH EVERYTHING OUT. EVEN CRAZY CHICKS LIKE YOU”
In Sydney playwright Katherine Thomson’s KAYAK, all Ruth wants to do is be out on the harbour with her kayak and enjoy the quiet. She’s in Heaven. “I’m nestled in the …
Pacific Opera, a young artists company proving a platform for the opera stars of tomorrow, is presenting a Valentine’s Day Opera Concert at the Independent Theatre in North Sydney.
On the most romantic of days opera lovers will have the …
Founded in 2000, The Marais Project recently turned 15, and each year presents Early Music with a number of highly regarded concerts making it Australia’s longest continuously running “viola da gamba” ensemble.
The Marais Project have performed more than 80% …