Sydney Mozart Society
Affiliated with the Mozarteum, Salzburg
Sydney Mozart Society brings you Mozart and much more from the 'Golden Age' of Chamber music.
2009 Concert Season
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Friday, 20 March at 8pm
Australian String Quartet
Formerly the ‘Tankstream’, founded in 1985, the Australian String Quartet is Quartet-in-Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music at the University of Adelaide
Sophie Rowell (violin), Anne Horton (violin),
Sally Boud (viola), Rachel Johnston (’cello)
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Friday, 1 May at 8pm
TrioZ
A partnership of three established, highly polished and charismatic performers, TrioZ has been appointed the very first Ensemble-in-Residence at Sydney’s prestigious City Recital Hall, Angel Place, from 2008.
Niki Vasilakis (violin), Emma Jane Murphy (’cello), Kathryn Selby (piano)
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Friday, 5 June at 8pm
Sydney Soloists
Sydney Soloists, now in its 13th year, is a small chamber orchestra which includes the members of the Grainger quartet and many highranking members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, together with freelance pianist Bernadette Balkus
Natsuko Yoshimoto (violin), James Cuddeford (violin), Jeremy Williams (viola), Patrick Murphy (’cello),
Kees Boersma (double bass), Alison Mitchell (flute),
Diana Doherty (oboe), Frank Celata (clarinet), Bernadette Balkus (piano)
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Friday, 17 July at 8pm
Malcolm Bilson (fortepiano)
World-renowned Professor Malcolm Bilson of Cornell University has been at the forefront of the period-instrument movement for more than 30 years. A frequent soloist with leading early-instrument orchestras throughout the world, he will be visiting Sydney as keynote speaker at the 9th Australasian Pedagogy Conference.
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Friday, 4 September at 8pm
Whiteley Trio
The Whiteley Trio was formed in 2007 and ‘promises to be a leading ensemble on the Australian chamber-music landscape’. Members: Sun Yi (violin), formerly Concertmaster Shanghai SO, currently Associate
Principal Violinist SSO; Patrick Murphy (’cello), formerly Tankstream Quartet, currently Grainger Quartet; Brenda Jones (piano), top prizewinner 2003 International Piano Competition, semifinalist 2004 Sydney International Piano Competition.
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Friday, 16 October at 8pm
Quartet plus . . .
Roger Benedict, principal viola of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, joins the members of the former Grainger Quartet in presenting a rare programme of string quintets by Beethoven and Mozart.
Natsuko Yoshimoto (violin), James Cuddeford (violin), Jeremy Williams (viola), Roger Benedict (viola),
Patrick Murphy (’cello)
Venue
The venue is the new Gillian Moore Centre for Performing Arts of Pymble Ladies' College, Avon Rd, Pymble. Access to the centre is easy from both the north and south along Pacific Highway, via Livingstone Avenue. Cost-free parking is available onsite. If you are coming by train, PLC is only a short walk from Pymble station.
Admission
Members are admitted free on presentation of membership cards - there are no other charges - not even for concert programs. Non-members are welcome to attend individual concerts. Admission prices: regular $25, seniors and pensioners $20, full-time students under 23 $6. Children under 13 are admitted free.