Over the month of January, Alex will premiere Andrew Anderson’s new song cycle Isaiah, commissioned by the Rev. Matthew Williams, at St James Old Cathedral, cnr King and Batman St, West Melbourne 3003.

Each week a new part of the cycle will be premiered, with the cycle again to be performed on 16 and 23 February.

The service will be live streamed, accessible on St James Old Cathedral’s website: https://www.sjoc.org.au

Over the month of January, Alex will premiere Andrew Anderson’s new song cycle Isaiah, commissioned by the Rev. Matthew Williams, at St James Old Cathedral, cnr King and Batman St, West Melbourne 3003.

Each week a new part of the cycle will be premiered, with the cycle again to be performed on 16 and 23 February.

The service will be live streamed, accessible on St James Old Cathedral’s website: https://www.sjoc.org.au

Over the month of January, Alex will premiere Andrew Anderson’s new song cycle Isaiah, commissioned by the Rev. Matthew Williams, at St James Old Cathedral, cnr King and Batman St, West Melbourne 3003.

Each week a new part of the cycle will be premiered, with the cycle again to be performed on 16 and 23 February.

The service will be live streamed, accessible on St James Old Cathedral’s website: https://www.sjoc.org.au

Alex features with the Kew Philharmonic Choirs in their concert presentation of the endlessly fascinating 14th century songs of the ‘Llibre Vermell’

Tickets link and details coming soon.

The Astra Choir and soloists with electronics, baroque ensemble and percussion
John McCaughey, conductor

A shared birthday celebration of two of Australia's prominent electronic composers, with new compositions in rare combination with live collective voices. Each work reaches into political-cultural histories of the recent past. 

Tickets and details through Astra Chamber Music Society.

Steve Stelios Adam (65 on 6 October).  
DOULIA TIS FILAKIS (Work in prison)
A Greek-language poem from prison, written in 1962 by the composer's communist great-aunt Elli Pappa, invokes the period of authoritarian rule in Greece – words placed among live-processed and surround sound.

Warren Burt (75 on 10 October).  
WAR POEMS OF REWI ALLEY
Texts from the period of the Indochina Wars bring into focus the NZ poet and activist Rewi Alley, who lived for 60 years in China from 1927. 

Surrounding the new works: a wide palette of words and music –  from Claudio Monteverdi, Stefan Wolpe and Donald Martino to Rainer Linz, Cindy John and Larry Polansky.

Steve Stelios Adam's DOULIA TIS FILAKIS was commissioned during the period of the pandemic with assistance from Creative Victoria.
Warren Burt's WAR POEMS OF REWI ALLEY was commissioned for Astra by Malcolm Ellis.

Jake Heggie’s opera chronicles the stories of two Holocaust survivors in this heartwrenching performance, the first joint Australian-US production by Ohio-based Nightingale Opera. Alex features as Manfred in this production.

Support Alex’s artistic development in this production via the Australian Cultural Fund: https://artists.australianculturalfund.org.au/s/project/a2EMn00000BpAS6/support-alex-as-a-young-artist

The Temple Tifereth Israel
26000 Shaker Blvd. Beachwood, OH 44122

https://www.nightingaleoperatheatre.com/upcoming-events-1

Photo credit: Cameron Grant, @parenthesy

Alex features in the next concert presented by Astra Chamber Music Society, directed by John McCaughey and Andrew Byrne.

Friday the Thirteenth of September is the 150th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg. A few weeks later follows the 150th of Charles Ives. This extra concert in Astra's 2024 season brings together a brief hour of musical parrying between two giants of the last century, whose mutual respect was deep. Choruses and song, piano and organ celebrate in small dimensions the large contrasting instincts of a remarkable pair of figures who changed the sound of a century.

Friday 13 September, 8pm
St Mary’s North Melbourne
428 Queensbury St
North Melbourne VIC 3051

What love is stronger than that of a poet? In his landmark song cycle, Robert Schumann captures the pain of poet Heinrich Heine from blossoming love in spring to desperation and death. Robert’s own great love, Clara, was as much a muse to him as every other composer in Europe at the time. Clara influenced a generation of performers and composers with both her virtuosity at the keyboard and works among the greatest of the German Romantic tradition.

Program:

Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, op. 48
Clara Schumann: Six Songs, op. 13
Johannes Brahms: Von ewiger Liebe, op. 43 no. 1

Featuring as part of the Austral Salon member’s series, 2024.
The Main Hall, St Peter’s Church
15 Gisborne St , East Melbourne Vic 3002
Bookings essential.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1258011

Photo credit: Hugo Begg, @hugobegg