Welcome to the SWIC Classical Music Group first concert in 2026. Witness the future of Australian music take centre stage, as the 2026 Fellows join the musicians of the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in a special one-off performance curated by Sydney Symphony Principal musicians and Fellowship Artistic Directors. Chamber music […]
Please find program for 2026 Season of Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing in Opera House Concert Hall. In the 2026 Season of Sydney Symphony Orchestra there are nine ‘Thursday Afternoon Symphony’ concerts at 1.30pm with 45 minutes of pre-concert talks, and six Friday ‘Tea & Symphony’ morning concerts at 11am. Members usually meet for lunch/ drinks […]
The festive season begins!.......... with Christmas Carols at the Opera House. Some of our very talented SWIC members are singing at the Opera House in December. I am hoping you will join me for the “Carols at the House” and also beforehand for a drink and something to eat at the Opera Bar DATE: Friday […]
Welcome to our last concert in 2025 - magnificent Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with world renowned Chief Conductor Simone Young, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sydney Philharmonic Choirs. AN ODE TO YOY is one of the most famous Symphonies ever composed and is well known for it’s life affirming melody. We will meet before the concert for […]
Welcome to Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert of a Romantic music by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) conducted by conductor Simone Young. Mussorgsky's most imaginative and frequently performed work is the cycle of piano pieces describing ‘paintings in sound’ called Pictures at an Exhibition. This composition, is best known through an orchestral arrangement done by Maurice Ravel. It was also […]
Welcome to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra concert in Opera House Concert Hall on Thursday 4 September at 1.30pm. Chief Conductor Simone Young will conduct Richard Strauss music of Burlesce, Metamorphosen and Thus Spoke Zarathustra (used by Stanley Kubrick in his famous, iconic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.). As always there will be pre-concert talk in […]
The July concert is titled A Fascinated Voyage and will be conducting by Gustavo Gimeno, young Spanish conductor. We will hear Javier Perianes a Spanish pianist playing Saint-Saenz Concerto No.5 in the memory of Egypt. Then the thrilling and exiting William Tell Overture by Rossini and Shostakovich Symphony No.15. We will meet before the concert […]
The June concert will bring three iconic composers: Australian Bree van Reyk, American Leonard Bernstein and Austrian E.W. Korngold with Brazilian Eduardo Strausser conducting. The program includes the very young, but talented and already famous, Australian violinist Christian Li playing Korngold’s Violin Concerto. We will meet before the concert for complimentary tea/coffee in the foyer […]
Welcome to the May classical music concert performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under conductor Elim Chan. We will listen to selections of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No.1 played by Sir Steven Hough. We will meet before the concert for complimentary tea/coffee in the foyer. After the concert some members may […]
Welcome to the April classical music concert performed by the 2025 Fellows of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Opera House Concert Hall. The chamber orchestra will present Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.3, a true miniature masterpiece, then music by Stravinsky, Monteverdi and Spohr. We will meet before the concert for complimentary tea/coffee in the foyer. […]