What's On


Concerts held earlier this year

Sydney Symphony
Saturday 8 March 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
This is the first time for many years that the Sydney Symphony has performed in the Blue Mountains. This concert is part of their ever-popular Mozart series in which Mozart masterpieces are showcased alongside other composers in a program of musical elegance.

Photo courtesy Brendan Read.
Southern Cross Soloists
Saturday 3 May 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
The return visit of the Southern Cross Soloists will be eagerly awaited by all who attended their previous concert, one of the most memorable of our concerts in recent years.
Pekka Kuusisto
Saturday 21 June 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood High School Auditorium | Grose Road | Faulconbridge
Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto is one of the most versatile and distinctive musicians working today. Always demonstrating his extraordinary individuality and imagination, Pekka is unusually free and fluid in his approach and has been acclaimed for the spontaneity and freshness in his playing.

Pekka starred in the recent movie “4” themed on the Vivaldi four seasons, playing his violin in the winter movement.
Gypsy Jam with Simon Tedeschi and Ian Cooper
Saturday 26 July 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
Benefit Concert for the Blue Mountains Concert Society Piano Fund
Come and join us for a fun evening of Gypsy music with a variety of lilting music from Brahms, Grieg and Dvorak to Dixieland, Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Waller, presented as a combination of solo pieces by Simon as well as group items.
Sara Macliver and Bernadette Balkus
Saturday 23 August 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
The exciting partnership of Sara Macliver and Bernadette Balkus brings together two of Australia's most acclaimed soloists for programs of great variety and depth.
Tatiana Kolesova - SIPC 2nd Prize Winner
Friday 19 September 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
Sydney International Piano Competition
The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is internationally recognised now as one of the world’s great Piano Competitions.

This concert will feature the competitions 2008 2nd Prize winner.
Konstantin Shamray - SIPC 1st Prize Winner
Saturday 27 September 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
Sydney International Piano Competition
The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is internationally recognised now as one of the world’s great Piano Competitions.

This years winner, Konstantin Shamray, was born in Novosibirsk and began studies in the Kemerovo Music School and from 1996 continued his studies in Moscow at the Gnessin Special Music School and in 2003 at the Russian Gnessin Academy of Music with Tatiana Zelikman.
Brandenburg Ensemble  - Corelli’s Ghost
Saturday 18 October 2008
8:00 | Springwood High School Hall | Grose Road | Faulconbridge
Be spirited away by the brilliant original sound of baroque works performed on period instruments.

The soloists of the ARIA award-winning Australian Brandenburg Orchestra invite you to discover Corelli’s Ghost – a program inspired by celebrated Baroque composer and violinist, Arcangelo Corelli.

This is a rare opportunity to finally hear the music of the 17th and 18th century, performed on the instruments for which they were written. Corelli’s Ghost will have you floating in pure instrumental bliss with the delightful sound of period violins, harpsichord, theorbo, baroque guitar and more.

Pavel Haas Quartet
Saturday 15 November 2008
8:00 pm | Springwood Civic Centre | Macquarie Road | Springwood
This quartet from the Czech Republic is named after the Czech composer, Pavel Haas (1899-1944), whose works were denounced by the Nazis, and who died at Auschwitz.
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