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Season Overview

2013 SEASON
INSPIRING MUSICAL EXPERIENCES

The Sydney Symphony’s 2013 season is open for subscriptions. If the sheer power of live orchestral music inspires your imagination, excites your senses and satisfies your soul, then this is a season of concerts for you.

• Awesome music by favourite composers – Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and many more. 
• Leading international artists, including our Principal Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, violinist Pinchas Zukerman and soprano Lisa Gasteen, as well as pianist Murray Perahia in a hot-ticket solo recital.
• Exotic music from China and Latin America, jazz inspirations, singer-songwriter Lior, and film music such as Tan Dun’s Martial Arts Trilogy(based on his music for The Banquet, Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kingon a massive screen with live orchestra and choirs.

Check out the entire Sydney Symphony 2013 season

• Order your season packages quickly and easily
• Request a printed brochure or read online
• View our 2013 season video
• Check out each concert and listen to samples of the music
• Watch the orchestra in action in one of our Bigpond webcastsor on YouTube.

Single tickets go on general sale from Friday 7 December 2012

Artists

Vladimir Ashkenazy Principal Conductor
David Robertson Chief Conductor designate
Dene Olding Concertmaster
Jessica Cottis Assistant Conductor

The Sydney Symphony is an orchestra of 93 full-time professional musicians who perform music of all styles from the 18th century to music composed yesterday. Our range embraces the concert hall hits of Classical and Romantic periods, modern masterpieces and exciting collaborations that cross genres.

Throughout the season, top conductors, soloists and ensembles from all over the world come to Sydney to make music with the orchestra.

Meet the musicians of the Sydney Symphony.
And the talented young musicians in our Fellowship Program and the Sydney Sinfonia training orchestra.

Company Overview

The Sydney Symphony is the resident orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, performing nearly 100 concerts each year in the Concert Hall. We also tour frequently to other cities and regional areas of New South Wales, and our international tours have taken us to Europe, North America and Asia.

Formed in 1932 by the ABC, the Sydney Symphony celebrated its 80th anniversary season in 2012. Read a short history of the orchestra.

Vladimir Ashkenazy:Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor
Rory Jeffes: Managing Director

Tel: +61 2 8215 4600
Fax: +61 2 8215 4660
Email:info@sydneysymphony.com
www.sydneysymphony.com

SEASON

Ashkenazy's Favourites: Tchaikovsky, Strauss & Walton
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
15 May - 18 May
Organ Symphony: Dutoit conducts Saint-Saens and Mozart
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
05 Jun - 08 Jun
Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto: with Arabella Steinbacher
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
13 Jun - 15 Jun
All Stops Out! David Drury at the Organ - Tea & Symphony
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
14 Jun
Barry Humphries, Dame Edna & Other Marsupials
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Concert Hall
21 Jun - 22 Jun
Peter & the Wolf with Dame Edna
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Concert Hall
23 Jun
Idina Menzel with the SSO
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Concert Hall
26 Jun - 27 Jun
Fantasia with the Sydney Symphony
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
29 Jun
Verdi's Requiem: Robertson Conducts
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
10 Jul - 13 Jul
The Flying Dutchman: An Opera in Concert
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
20 Jul - 22 Jul
Dvorak Symphony No.8: Bohemian Adventure
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
25 Jul - 27 Jul
Wagner madness
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
31 Jul - 01 Aug
Wagner madness - Tea & Symphony
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Concert Hall
02 Aug
Lisa Gasteen Returns: Wagner & Bruckner with Simone Young
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
07 Aug - 10 Aug
The Whitlams with the Sydney Symphony
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Concert Hall
14 Aug - 15 Aug
George Benson and the Sydney Symphony
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
16 Aug - 17 Aug
John Adams conducts Adams: and Beethoven & Pines of Rome
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Concert Hall
22 Aug - 23 Aug
Mozart's Jupiter Symphony - Tea & Symphony
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
06 Sep
Lior & Westlake: Songs with Orchestra
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Concert Hall
06 Sep - 07 Sep
LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS
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Concert Hall
13 Sep - 15 Sep
Wagner's Ring Adventure: Fliter plays Chopin
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Concert Hall
18 Sep - 21 Sep
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
27 Sep - 29 Sep
Capucon plays Saint-Saens: French Liaisons
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Concert Hall
10 Oct - 12 Oct
Latin Fever: With the Labeque Sisters
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Concert Hall
25 Oct - 28 Oct
Dvorak's New World Symphony: Explorations in Sound
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Concert Hall
30 Oct - 31 Oct
Murray Perahia in recital
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Concert Hall
01 Nov
Dvorak's New World Symphony: Explorations in Sound - Tea & Symphony
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Concert Hall
01 Nov
War Requiem: Ashkenazy conducts Britten
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
08 Nov - 09 Nov
Mahler and Bruch: Ashkenazy and Zukerman
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
13 Nov - 16 Nov
Sibelius and Brahms: Ashkenazy and Zukerman
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
14 Nov
Sibelius and Brahms: Ashkenazy and Zukerman - Tea & Symphony
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
15 Nov
Thibaudet plays Gershwin: Jazz Inspirations
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
05 Dec - 09 Dec
Variations on an English Theme: Haydn, Brahms & Britten
Sydney Symphony
Concert Hall
11 Dec - 14 Dec
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