The Newcastle Music Festival Rising Stars program is on again in 2025. The program encourages and support outstanding younger performers in the region (Newcastle/Hunter Valley/Central Coast) by offering a paid performance opportunity in a nationally acclaimed music festival.

We are delighted to announce our Rising Stars for 2025:

Brianna Lynch – Voice | Grace Hill – Piano | Zac Choi – Violin | Alex Moss – Piano

Associate artist – Erin Sweetman

Rising Stars is supported by ArtsNational Newcastle

PROGRAM

GRACE HILL
Sergei Sergeyevich PROKOFIEV

(1891-1953)

Dolente No 16 and Poetico No 17 from Visions fugitives Op. 22

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

(1770-1827)

Rondo – Allegro 

3rd movement from Sonata {No 8} in C minor Op. 13

Frédéric François CHOPIN (1810-1849)

Nocturne in F minor Op. 55

BRIANNA LYNCH with ERIN SWEETMAN

Frederick Theodore Albert DELIUS CH (1862-1934)

“Twilight Fancies”

Dulcie Sibyl HOLLAND

 (1913-2000)

From the poem by Douglas Stewart

“Children of Terrigal”

Drew GASPARINI (b. 1986)

“Someone”

Lucy Elizabeth SIMON

(1940-2022)

Marsha Norman (lyrics)

“Hold On” from The Secret Garden

ALEX MOSS
Frédéric François CHOPIN (1810-1849)

Nocturne in Db Major Op. 27 No 2

Achille Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)

“Reverie”

ZAC CHOI with ERIN SWEETMAN

Charles-Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)

Violin concerto No.3 in b minor, Op. 61 (first movement)

Johannes BRAHMS

(1833-1897)

Scherzo in c minor from the

F-A-E Sonata (Schumann, Dietrich, Brahms, 1853)