Tickets: Adult $25| Concession - Pensioner, Senior, Accompanying Teacher, Carer $15| Child under 5, School Student $10| Family (2 Adults +2 children) $60 Performers Hobart Friends, Newcastle Strings, David Banney (conductor) Newcastle Strings and the Hobart Friends Strings join forces to present these half hour concerts for lower schools, comprising nursery rhymes arranged by […]
Tickets: $45 per head. Bookings essential. Performers Baltic Bar Mitzvah The amazing klezmer sounds of Baltic Bar Mitzvah (featuring accordion, clarinet and horn) meet a vibrant, gypsy themed, two course vegetarian menu!
Tickets: $45 per head. Bookings essential. Performers Małgorzata Wiśniewska (soprano), Genevieve Dickson (mezzo-soprano), Martin Buckingham (tenor) & Erin Sweetman (piano). Enjoy a cocktail, canapés and favourite excerpts from opera. Program
Doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30 start Performers Little Quirks - headline act; India and the Journey to the East; Edda Srey; Jasmine Pearl (solo) - support acts Program Featuring “Little Quirks” and other talented local bands. Sisters Abbey and Mia Toole joined their cousin Jaymi Toole in 2015 to form Little Quirks, a band […]
Tickets: Free admission. No tickets required. Performers Adjudicator: Helen Smith The Newcastle Music Festival is proud to join the Music Teachers’ Association of NSW in presenting competitions for young pianists to award the Nan Price Memorial Scholarship and the Joyce Blewitt Award. This year’s adjudicator is Helen Smith. The age limit for competitors is now […]
Tickets: Adult $65| Concession $55| Full time student $25| Performers Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Jakob Lehmann (Guest Director) Founded under the Artistic Direction of the late renowned musician and educator Richard Gill AO, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra is a world-class orchestra of leading Australian musicians who are dedicated to the performance […]
Tickets: Adult $35| Concession $25| Family (2 adults + 2 children) $80| Bookings recommended. Performers Festival Strings Christ Church Camerata Newcastle Strings Deborah Humble Program Henry PURCELL Overture and Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas Georg Frederic HÄNDEL Lascia ch’io pianga from Rinaldo Manuel de FALLA (orchestrated by David Banney) Popular Spanish Folksongs Suite […]
Samanta Lestavel (soprano) Tristan Entwistle (baritone) Claire Howard Race (piano) A sensational night of fine food at FogHorn Brewery with entertainment by Newcastle Music Festival, presenting the very comic, intimate chamber opera, “The Telephone”, by Gian Carlo Menotti (and yes, it’s in English). This Broadway hit of the late 1940s brings all the style and […]
Sue Carson (vocals, violin) Terence Koo (keyboard) Heather Price (bass and vocals) Newcastle Music Festival and FogHorn Brewery bring you a tantalizing evening of fine food and jazz songs, connected by the themes of emotions, expression and heart. Enjoy Newcastle’s finest jazz songstresses and performers, Heather Price on vocals and double bass, and Sue Carson […]
Acacia Quartet return to Newcastle for their second Festival appearance, playing string quartets by Borodin and Shostakovich.
Recorder virtuoso Alicia Crossley and Acacia Quartet present “Muse”, Australian compositions for recorder and string quartet.
Amy Moore and Acacia Quartet perform Ross Fiddes’ song cycle, and Dvorak’s magnificent ‘American’ Quartet.
Tamara-Anna Cislowska makes a welcome return to Newcastle, to open the 2022 August Festival with a concert of solo piano works, entitled Liebestod.
Viola virtuosi Patricia Pollett, Robert Harris, and Paul Groh join the violas, cellos and basses of the Christ Church Camerata.
Enjoy music of Bach, Brahms and Enescu in this superb recital by violist Patricia Pollett and pianist Anna Grinberg.
SOLD OUT Enjoy cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and favourite excerpts from opera in beautiful Stanley Park.
Pinchgut Opera, in their first visit to Newcastle, present Orchestra of the Antipodes and Cantillation with director Erin Helyard in the great work, Monteverdi's Vespers.
Enjoy a hearty Viennese lunch before the concert talk, available from 12 noon. Enjoy your meal in the Cathedral if it is cold or wet, but don't be tardy - we always sell out! Bratwurst + crusty bread roll Smokey tomato relish - homemade German Potato Soup + slice of grain sour dough $8.50 each
Christ Church Cathedral’s Director of Music, Peter Guy presents great works for the organ, including a world premiere transcription.
Max Bruch’s Double Concerto Opus 88 is performed by two great Australian performers, Susan Collins (violin) and Patricia Pollett (viola).
Susan Collins performs solo Bach on violin in the hushed darkness of the Cathedral.
Dungeon Big Band with Heather Price, and special guest Peter Guy. 7.30pm.
Beethoven’s magnificent Kreutzer Sonata will be performed by Susan Collins (violin) and Erin Sweetman (piano).
Young musicians vie for scholarships in violin, cello and piano in the Music Teachers' Association Newcastle Branch Scholarships Competition.
Flamenco - the Andalusian Guitar - SOLD OUT Paco Lara and Carlito Akan (guitars) Byron Mark (piano and percussion) and Deya Miranda (flamenco dancer) will set your heart racing and toes tapping.
The Festival Choir reforms for 2022, performing Fauré’s sublime Requiem, and the world premiere of David Banney’s Mass for Peace.
Anna Fraser (soprano) and Jack Symonds (piano) perform art songs and piano works ranging across 1000 years of composition, and present the world premiere of Ross Fiddes’ new work, Toasting Mother Earth, to words by Derek Dowding.
Teije Hylkema (cello) and Grace Kim (piano) perform music of Rachmaninov, J.S. Bach, and Ross Fiddes.
Grace Knight comes to Newcastle with a concert of evergreen jazz favourites, supported by keyboards, bass and the Christ Church Camerata Quartet.
Andrew Blanch plays Rodrigo’s sublime Concierto de Aranjuez, with the Christ Church Camerata, under the direction of David Banney.