Rehearsals are underway for Sydney Contemporary Orchestra’s latest concert series and it’s sounding good! A lot of exciting new works being premiered, this Friday night 6 October at Verbrugghen Hall – come check it out!

SCO CONCERT NO.10

Join Samantha Joseph (flautist) and Samantha Warhurst (soprano) for their latest winter concert, Songs of the Nightingale, at the cosy Campbell Street Presbyterian Church in Balmain.  

Samantha and Samantha will be joined by the virtuoso pianist Glenn Amer as they present four stunning pieces, in four different languages, that are all inspired by the beauty of the Nightingale.  These pieces will be interspersed amongst other favourite and fabulous arrangements for flute and soprano, including the spine-tingling ‘Consuelo’s Love Theme’.  

As always, we invite you to join us for refreshments after the concert. We hope to see you there!

Wishing you all a wonderful year filled with family, friends, and love.

I am looking forward to an exciting year ahead, and have already started the planning for upcoming concerts (we’ll let you know soon!).  In the meantime, here is a snippet of Samantha Warhurst (soprano), Glenn Amer (piano) and myself performing The Prayer recently.  I love this song – it is so hopeful – appropriate as we start a new year.

We dream a world without violence, a world of justice and faith.  Everyone gives the hand to his neighbours.  Symbol of peace, of fraternity. We ask that life be kind and watch us from above.  We hope each soul will find, another soul to love.

Special Offer: Ticket plus a copy of our debut album, ‘Songs of Love and Passion’ for $40.

Songs of the World:  4pm – Saturday 24th October                                                         Presbyterian Church, 7 Campbell St, Balmain

We hope to see you there!

Samantha and Samantha

Here is an interesting read from The Guardian exploring this concept of a rounded professional development education for musicians further.

Set in Rome in June 1800, with Rome threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy, Puccini’s compelling and confronting opera Tosca narrows in on three characters, emotionally and politically bound in desire and betrayal.

When her lover, Cavaradossi, is captured by Rome’s secret police, Floria Tosca is forced to make a deal with police chief Scarpia. But Tosca decides that she will leave nothing to chance when it comes to saving her lover.

Hear a teaser of the show here!  Book tickets here.

Puccini’s taut drama comes to The Independent Theatre, North Sydney in October for a limited season. Tosca – Anna Louise Cole, Cavaradossi – Martin Buckingham, Scarpia – Sitiveni Talei. Conductor – Steven Stanke.

The Sydney Contemporary Orchestra is an innovative orchestra for modern orchestral music.  Supported by The SCO Foundation, the orchestra hosts regular charity concerts to promote new music compositions by the contemporary composers from all around the world.

Listen to some of our music from past concerts here!