Concert Hall (Sundays 8 – 10 pm, now repeated Wednesdays 1.30-3.30 pm)

This is your opportunity to catch the best of Canberra’s live classical music performances by local and international artists. Every year Art Sound volunteers record around 50 such concerts. You can hear many of them on Concert Hall and also keep in touch with musical events coming up around town.

Concert Hall sources its live concerts from such venues as the ANU School of Music, the Wesley Music Centre, the National Gallery, the National Library, University House and local churches. We cover all genres and forms of classical music performed by solo instruments and voices, ensembles, orchestras and choirs.

Coming up on Concert Hall

January 2012

15th (Annabel) – An amphitheatre of hills, Mt Ainslie
Lisa Moore (keyboards), Calvin Bowman (organ) and Gary France (percussion) perform works by Terry Riley, John Adams, Philip Glass and Elena Kats-Chernin at the Mt Ainslie Lookout as part of the 2011 Canberra International Music Festival.

22nd (Eric) – From the archives
A 2003 performance by the Macquarie Trio of Beethoven's Piano Trio The Ghost and Shostakovich's 2nd Trio in E flat at the Fairfax theatre, National Gallery of Australia.

29th (Annabel pre-recorded) – Tinalley Quartet
They play quartets of Schubert, Beethoven and Ravel from the 2009 Canberra International Music Festival.

February

5th (Annabel) – Around the world in 88 keys
Raymond Khong (tenor) and Julie O'Connor (soprano) will entertain you with their down to earth selection of operatic favourites. From one of Australia's newest regional opera companies, Young Opera Productions, at the Peter Crisp Gallery, Bowning.

12th (Eric) – Something French, something luscious
Music for two Wayne Stuart pianos, harp, flute and four female voices – a candlelight concert in the Albert Hall from the 2009 Canberra International Music Festival.

19th (Eric) – Music for violin and piano + Pärt Symphony
Barbara Jane Gilby and Meriel Owen play Melodies of Prokofiev and Bruch's Violin Concerto – a lunchtime concert from the Wesley Music Centre. We will also hear Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, given its first Australian performance commissioned at the 2009 Canberra International Music Festival.

26th (Annabel) – Telopea Trio + 20th century flute and harp
Two sparkling lunchtime live recitals by some of Canberra's best young musicians at the Wesley Music Centre.

Useful Links

Lisa Moore - http://www.lisamoore.org/

Canberra International Music Festival - http://www.cicmf.org/default.asp?id=19

Tinalley String Quartet - http://www.tinalley.com.au/cms-the-quartet/index.php

Wayne Stuart pianos - http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/innovations/stories/s841471.htm