In Memory of a Great Artist
Selby & Friends
1 July, 7.00pm

The Chimney Sweep by Salieri
Pinchgut Opera
Various dates and times

Piano Quintets
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Various dates and times

La Rêvolution
A Bastille Day concert
14 July, 7.30pm

Let’s Fall in Love
Amanda McBroom & Michele Brourman
19 July, 7.30pm

Kina Grannis
Frontier Touring
20 July, 8pm

Choir of King’s College Cambridge
Musica Viva
21 July, 7.00pm

Grand Prize Winner’s Concert
World Harp Congress
22 July, 4.00pm

Chamber Music Extravaganza
World Harp Congress
22 July, 7.30pm

Dmitry Sinkovsky Russian Baroque Violin
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Various dates and times

Celebrating the Early Harp
World Harp Congress
24 July, 7.30pm

AYO In Concert
Australian Youth Orchestra
31 July, 7.30pm

We are becoming enslaved by our technology
IQ2 Oz Debate
12 Aug, 6.45pm

Brundibár
Opera Prometheus Incorporated
14 Aug, 6.00pm & 8.00pm

Carnival Français
Omega Ensemble
15 Aug, 7.30pm

Songbird Live in Concert
Marina Prior
16 Aug, 8.00pm

Imogen Cooper
Musica Viva Australia
Various dates and times

Boundless
Australian String Quartet
21 Aug, 7.00pm

Mozart & Mendelssohn
A Little Lunch Music
22 Aug, 12.30pm

Intimate Letters
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Various dates and times

Vocal Fireworks
The Song Company
31 August, 3.00pm

Discover Brahms’ Haydn Variations
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
2 Sep, 6.30pm

Mozart’s Jupiter
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Various dates and time

Schools that Sing
Santa Sabina College, St. Aloysius’ College & St. Mary’s Cathedral College
9 Sep, 7.30pm

Going Bjørk
Sydney Chamber Choir
13 Sep, 7.30pm

Bielfield & Glen: Ambrosia ’14
Mise-En-Scene Studios (M.E.S.S.)
14 Sep, 3pm

Stephen Hough in Recital
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
15 Sep, 7pm

Swedish Delight
Selby & Friends
16 Sep, 7pm

23 Sep, 7.30pm

Borodin Quartet
Musica Viva
Various dates and times

The Family Cushion Concert provided a fantastic new opportunity in Camden, on the 22nd June, enabling families to enjoy and learn from some of our brilliant performers of the Academy. The afternoon included interactive workshops for all ages, where they were given a unique chance to work with members of the orchestra on a piece which they played together in a vibrant performance in the afternoon. The concert included a varied programme, introducing the participants to great orchestral masterpieces, from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture to a polished performance of a Haydn Trumpet Concerto.

Following last years success, the musicians from the Academy will once again be inspiring young musicians from London in a new, creative project this summer. The ensemble will have the chance to work with players from the Academy over a period of three days, rehearsing, improvising and composing together to create new works and reimagine well-known classical masterpieces. Our Create, Cultivate, Orchestrate! projects are provided free of charge to young musicians aged 9-18 years from London, providing a great opportunity to perform in a concert at Canary Wharf following the full three days of professional workshops!

JOSEPH TOLTZ, OPERA PROMETHEUS in association with SYDNEY JEWISH MUSEUM. 14 August, 6pm & 8pm

The children’s opera Brundibár was a popular cultural activity and a powerful symbol of hope when performed by the Jewish people imprisoned in the Terezín Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Seventy years later, the opera will finally have its Sydney premiere production, having been performed hundreds of times around the world since being re-discovered in the 1970s. Performed by a cast of over 30 children aged 8 to 12 years and professional musicians, this will be a beautiful opportunity for parents and grandparents to share their children’s first ever experience of opera. Brundibár tells the story of a brother and sister who overcome a local town bully in order to help their ill mother. While the context of where Brundibár was first performed is brutal, the actual work is bright, funny, uplifting and full of wonderful music. The orchestration is both delicate and challenging enough to provide entertainment for sophisticated and inexperienced ears alike. As all fables do, it carries meaning and lessons beyond the words and notes for all of us to hear and remember. Sharna Galvin DIRECTOR Joseph Toltz MUSIC DIRECTOR Ed Lippmann DESIGNER

City Recital Hall becomes a Parisian Salon to celebrate Bastille Day Join classical superstars, soprano Yvonne Kenny, flautist Jane Rutter, accordionist Marcello Maio and baritone Andrew Jones. The stellar lineup will be accompanied by a small chamber ensemble including: Owen Torr on harp an Vincent Colagiuri on piano performing Parisian classical arias, Chansons and delicious salon pieces. La Rêvolution will take you on a journey to the heart of the French Romantic Operatic era. To the passionate world of the Parisian salons and the languid, joyous insouciance of French Impressionism. Artistic director, Jane Rutter has created a seductive program which includes a wonderful selection of works including; Ravel’s La Flûte Enchantée, Piece en Forme de Habanera and Chansons à Boire, Fauré’s Sicilienne and Après un Rêve, Debussy’s Claire de Lune, Cole Porter’s So In Love and Eric Satie’s classical Parisian cabaret favourite La Diva de l’Empire. With excerpts from Bizet’s Carmen and Les Pecheurs de Perle, and musical délices by Hahn, Messager, Chausson, Poulenc, Offenbach, and Saint-Saëns. Bastille Day never looked this good! Vive la France! Vive La Musique! claire de lune Debussy played by Jane Rutter the merry widow Performed by Yvonne Kenny purchase tickets 14 July 2014, 7.30pm City Recital Hall tickets from $65* online at cityrecitalhall.com by phone (02) 8256 2222 in person City Recital Hall Angel Place

The beloved Grammy Award-winning a cappella vocal ensemble offers up sunny, sophisticated arrangements of their favourite tunes by Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and many others in Great American Songbook.Enjoy an evening of familiar tunes as The King’s Singers pay tribute to some of the most enduring and influential American popular songs of the 20th century. The King’s Singers with renowned jazz composer and arranger Alexander L’Estrange, have created brand new a cappela arrangements of each song, bringing the groups own unique performance style to some of the most beloved hits from the golden era of song-writing. From their witty take on Let’s Misbehave and The Lady is a Tramp (the latter even updated with references to Twitter and The Ashes!), to the sensual harmonies of My Funny Valentine and Cry Me A River, the ensemble bring their own consummate vocal talents and trademark British humor to these golden era songs from Broadway musicals, Hollywood films and the American theatre stage. Recipients of two Grammy Awards, the Midem International Classical Award and recent inductees into the Gramophone Hall of Fame, this is sure to be an unforgettable evening! purchase tickets 25 June 2014, 7.30pm City Recital Hall tickets from $85* online at cityrecitalhall.com by phone (02) 8256 2222 in person City Recital Hall Angel Place

TWO BRILLIANT INTERNATIONAL STARS TWO SENSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH SELBY & FRIENDS Leave behind the winter cold and enjoy the electric atmosphere of top-class artistic friends performing chamber music at its best.  Purchase tickets ($33 – $69) now for the best seats!

IN MEMORY OF A GREAT ARTIST Tuesday 1 July, 7pm Australian virtuoso violinist and leader of both the famed Lucerne Festival Strings and the recent Australian World Orchestra, Daniel Dodds returns home to perform with renowned Australian cellist Julian Smiles and pianist Kathryn Selby AM  in this program featuring piano trios by Beethoven and Fauré, and Tchaikovsky’s monumental piano trio homage to Anton Rubinstein. Daniel Dodds, violinist Torleif Thedéen SWEDISH DELIGHT Tuesday 16 September, 7pm Selby & Friends is delighted to welcome the great Swedish cellist Torleif Thedéen in recital for the first time in Australia in over 20 years. Thedéen’s program will include cello sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Grieg with friend Kathryn Selby along with a world première work by Australian Paul Dean. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear Torleif Thedeen live in concert. 15 Questions to Torleif Thedéen purchase tickets online at cityrecitalhall.com by phone (02) 8256 2222 in person at City Recital Hall Angel Place tickets $37- $69 (additional fees may apply) SELBY & FRIENDS TOUR 3 1 July, 7pm SELBY & FRIENDS TOUR 4 16 Sept, 7pm

One of America’s greatest cabaret performers returns to City Recital Hall for the first time in over a decade with her show Let’s Fall in Love. Amanda McBroom ponders the dark and light side of that endangered species – romance.

Somewhere between cabaret, Broadway show and concert, Let’s Fall in Love sees star songstress Amanda McBroom present an intimate program full of love, lust, loss, cherished dreams and wisdom, alsong side pianist and musical director Michele Brourman.  Be entertained by a familiar selection of great American songs with exquisite interpretations of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, Sammy Cahn, and hit songs by McBroom and Brouman themselves, including The Rose.

Humorous, profound and intensely moving, McBroom and Brourman weave their spell with innate artistry, incredible versatility expertly traversing blues, ballads and torch songs.

Amanda McBroom voice
Michele Brourman piano and musical director