Hourglass Ensemble: Jazz Nocturne

  • Classical Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 120 minutes, 20 minute interval Subject to change

Jazz with an unexpectedly Aussie-classical twist!

2025 Polish Music Eagles Winner, Best Foreign Album for “Her Journey”. 

Experience sultry and swinging chamber music for strings, winds, and piano, featuring brightest locally-grown performers. Sydney’s own Hourglass Ensemble curates a program of stunning new works and unfamiliar gems from Australia and around the world. Suffused with jazzy intrigue and beguiling nocturnal musings, this concert make the head spin and the heart swoon, all while your soul dance and your toes tap. 

From the intellectual power of Richard Grantham’s profound world premiere, to the chaotic scandalous cheekiness of Grainger, the intoxicating and rambling blues music of Kats-Chernin, and the rambunctious sweet delights of Kapustin, this show is the energising highlight of the spring!   

Presented by Hourglass Ensemble

Event details

…a varied and highly enjoyable programme.

★ ★ ★ ★ Limelight Magazine

Program

Elena Kats-Chernin* - “Russian” Rag for chamber ensemble 

Richard Grantham* - Duoseptuagintuplication ("seventy-two times") - world premiere commission

Percy Grainger* - Four songs and dances for chamber ensemble 

Ross Edwards* - Nura for flute and piano 

Nikolai Kapustin - trio for flute, cello, and piano 

Darius Milhaud - suite from “Le Voyageur Sans Bagage” for clarinet, violin, and piano 

* denotes Australian composer

Credits

Ewa Kowalski - Flutes

Andrew Kennedy - Clarinets/artistic director

Adele Ohki - Violin

Eleanor Streatfeild - Cello

Anna Rutkowska-Schock - Piano

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Address

Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Getting to the venue

The Opera House is a 7-10 minute walk from Circular Quay, and is easily accessible by car, train, ferry, lightrail, bus, bike and on foot.

Location and access

Utzon Room

The Utzon Room is located on the Eastern side of the Opera House, in front of the Joan Sutherland Theatre. Best accessed through the Box Office Foyer or the Covered Concourse. All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).

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