CSO wins budget boost of $4.1 million
The Canberra Symphony Orchestra has been awarded a $4.1 million funding injection over four years under the 2024-25 federal budget, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
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SARAH EC BYRNE reviews an afternoon of chamber classics that opened the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's new season.
SARAH EC BYRNE reviews the "gorgeous and fitting climax to the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 season at Llewellyn Hall".
"This was an extraordinarily well-programmed concert that allowed audience, instrumentalists and conductor Alexander Briger, to run the full gamut of musical experience," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
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Hurley launches orchestra’s new season
The musically knowledgeable Governor-General of Australia, David Hurley, was on hand on Wednesday, to launch the 2024 season of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in fine style at the ANU School of Music.
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‘Passion’ presented with plenty of passion
LEN POWER reviews the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's performance of Bach's "St John Passion".
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Barton serenades the ‘Red Desert Sand’
Arts editor HELEN MUSA compiles the who-what-where of the coming week of Canberra arts events.
"There was little, if anything, to be critical about in the finely conceived and exquisitely played concert from the Canberra Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Jessica Cottis," writes reviewer GRAHAM McDONALD.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Canberra Symphony Orchestra's “Fire & Shadow” concert at Llewellyn Hall.
Canberra Symphony Orchestra has announced its inaugural Kingsland Fellows, five young artists who will receive specialised professional development throughout 2023.
"This is exquisite and searching music," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra Chamber Classics concert at Albert Hall on Sunday.
Another burst of what's-on-this-weekend from HELEN MUSA's latest "Artsday" column.
HELEN MUSA takes a look at what is coming up over the holiday period in this week's "Artsday" column.
For the final Canberra Symphony Orchestra concert series of the year, they saved their best for the last, writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY. "What a night!"
“Chroma” is the Greek word for colour, and that’s the choice of Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s conductor-in-chief and artistic director Jessica Cottis for the title of the 2023 season.
The arts week is off to a big start, read all about it; it's HELEN MUSA's "Artsday" column.
Reviewer TONY MAGEE revels in the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's "massive undertaking" of Handel's “Messiah – A Sacred Oratorio”.
"Guest conductor Benjamin Bayl abandoned the traditional 'baton' and instead used both hands to cajole and seduce some of the finest music making from the Canberra Symphony Orchestra I’ve heard in years." So says reviewer TONY MAGEE.
CANBERRA Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 season will begin with a grand flourish of Wagner and end with a summer prom on the lawns of Government House.
