What's on at Sydney Con Semester 2 2024
Program highlights
The SCM Symphony Orchestra presents a range of works performed by Sydney Conservatorium students.
Program:
- Anton Dvorak (1841 - 1904)
Carnival Overture - Sergei Golovko
The Marimba Concerto
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Petrushka
Fabian Russell, conductor
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music Chamber Orchestra presents a captivating program.
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Early Music Ensemble (EME) provides unique ensemble experience for students specialising in performance on period or historical instruments using historically informed performing practices. With members drawn from the breadth of the Conservatorium's student body, EME performs repertoire from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and early Romantic eras, mentored and guided by Australia's most accomplished scholars and practitioners of historically informed performance. Join us and hear the music of yesteryear in concert today.
Everyone knows her as the woman who created Mary Poppins, but who was P.L. Travers before she became famous?
Inspired by true events (yet told with a healthy spoonful of imagination), ‘Paper Stars’ follows the Australian-born Lyndon Goff as she sets sail from the docks of Sydney Harbour in 1924 with dreams of becoming a great writer in London. There, she reinvents herself as Pamela Travers, and goes on to write one of the most beloved stories of all time, ‘Mary Poppins’. But can Pamela learn to love real people as much as her characters?
With a whimsical book by Grace Chapple and Miranda Middleton, and a spectacular score by Luke Byrne, ‘Paper Stars’ is a new Australian musical about finding magic in the everyday. This premiere workshop production of the musical is presented by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, in association with Australian Theatre for Young People.
Performers:
2nd Year Music Theatre students
Creative team:
Miranda Middleton, Director
Simon Kenway, Musical Director
Shannon Burns, Choreographer
Narelle Yeo, Script Consultant
Grace Deacon, Set Designer
Lily Mateljan, Costume Designer
Aron Murray, Lighting Designer
Daniel Baykitch, Production Manager
Sherydan Simson, Deputy Production Manager
Join the SCM Wind Symphony this year for an exciting program of Grainger, Strauss, Bernstein, and more.
Stephen Williams, conductor
Andrew McWade, conductor
The SCM Symphony Orchestra and SCM Choir come together to present Haydn's The Creation.
Program:
- Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
The Creation
Elizabeth Scott, conductor
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Chinese Music Ensemble was established in 2016 to give students from across the university the opportunity to study traditional Chinese instruments. Ensemble members rehearse and perform on a regular basis with the aim to premiere new compositions each year.
This special collaboration premieres four short new operas created by postgraduate students from NIDA and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music that explore aspects aspects of the mother and motherhood, from personal to political, from quirky to queer. From the bloodlines of womanhood to the birth of a Star Baby, from a snakeskin nightmare to the finale of a reality television competition to find the next pop superstar, these captivating music dramas range across musical idioms and showcase a new generation of musical storytellers.
This co-production is directed by Lindy Hume, one of Australia’s great directors with more than 50 major productions across Australasia and a long line of international work stretching from Berlin to London to Seattle.
Program:
- In Cosmic Utero
Music by Aija Draguns
Libretto by Bianca Watkins - The Lullaby
Music by Hao Zhen
Libretto by Lily Thomson - Menarche
Music by Jessica O’Donoghue
Libretto by Rebecca Duke and Karina Young - M.TH.R
Music by Oliver John Cameron
Libretto by Xavier Hazard, Megan Rundle and Oliver John Cameron.
Directed by Lindy Hume
Dramaturgy by Dr Sally Blackwood
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The SCM Wind Symphony performs works by Montoya Jr., Bach, Schwantner, and more.
Stephen Williams, conductor
Andrew McWade, conductor