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.
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.
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.