Song Company Newsletter June 2011 The Song Company at rehearsal, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour OCTOBER 2011 Hello! Spring is in the air at last and there is a spring in our step as we approach the last major project for the year, the sweetest, nicest, yet most intriguing undertaking for some time. A new collaboration [...]
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NSW State Winners of the Australian Business Arts Foundation SME AWARD
October 10, 2011 – 9:15 am
Congratulations to Principals and the Song Company. Thank you for your support, Principals. This is a winning partnership that demonstrates excellence. The SME Award recognises best practice partnerships between businesses employing fewer than 200 people (globally) and arts and cultural organisations. We enjoyed a wonderful evening, hosted by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC CVO [...]
The inspiration behind the 2011 Season
July 18, 2011 – 1:42 pm
Watch an interview with Roland Peelman as he shares the stories behind the 2011 season, Voices Unearthed Watch us here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5HN2An81-U
Marcello Maio and the Song Company in A Christmas Romance
December 10, 2010 – 9:54 am
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind but the show is getting better and better with every performance. We opened in Orange to a keen audience of about 300 and we couldn’t have been happier! We performed amidst vats in a winery in Bathurst, sold out the City Gallery in Wollongong, managed to miss [...]
Chamber Music New Zealand Tour: now complete and a huge success!
October 28, 2010 – 11:30 am
After three weeks of touring around this diverse country and 10 performances (in 10 regional centres) of our two programs, The Seasons and Sweet Dreams, the title of our older program, The Seasons (Sweet Dreams was specifically devised for the New Zealand tour with the premiere performances of Jack Body’s new work), couldn’t have been [...]
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October 18, 2010 – 4:09 pm
Let the extraordinary voices of the Song Company transport you, from the warming embers of the Bach family hearth to the fairytale world of shadow puppetry. Be captivated and inspired by the pioneering spirit of the Song Company and explore the endless possibilities of six soaring voices. Surprising, impeccable, breathtaking; if you haven’t discovered them [...]
The China Tour
September 8, 2010 – 9:18 am
It was about 15 years ago that the Song Company last set foot on the Chinese mainland when we extended a trip to Hong Kong by going by train to the teeming and hugely polluted city of Guanzhou. It was a somewhat strange experience with the whole trip being chaperoned by two minders who never [...]
L’Amfiparnasso by Vecchi
September 8, 2010 – 9:18 am
Our run began in Canberra on the 8th of August, then on to Wollongong, Sydney and finished up in Newcastle of the 12th. Audiences were strong in all four cities and comedian Drew Forsythe was the perfect addition to the Song Company. Those who attended will corroborate that Drew had audiences in stitches with his [...]
An interview with Drew Forsythe
June 24, 2010 – 9:56 am
Drew Forsythe joins the Song Company to make an Italian comedy. Hear what he has to say about the creative collaboration for L’Amfiparnasso … Book your tickets now
Les Murray’s Octave at the Aurora Festival – May 2010
June 16, 2010 – 12:39 pm
“Our concert at Blacktown Performing Arts Centre as part of the Aurora Festival was approaching and the music I had been learning for the past 4 months was about to stand the test, or more correctly, my brain was about to be stretched! Performing this programme for one night only….couldn’t we do it again tomorrow [...]
