Hourglass Ensemble: Valentine

  • Classical Music
  • Utzon Room
  • Run time: 100 minutes, one 15 minute interval Subject to change

Celebrate love and nature with delightful chamber music

2024 Polish Music Eagles Winner, Best Foreign Album for “Her Journey”
 
Experience gorgeously romantic chamber music for strings, winds, and piano with your loved ones this February! Hourglass curates a program of stunning new works and precious masterpieces from Australia and around the world. Suffused with intrigue and romance, as well as deep devotion to nature, this concert will caress your heart and make it swell with nostalgia, hope, and a restfully warm spirit.

From the dreamlike rambling piano music of Debussy, to the lyrical and sentimental Sally Greenaway, the passionate power of Kris Spike, and a whimsical tribute to Stravinsky by Joan Tower, this show is an inspiring highlight of the summer!
 

Presented by Hourglass Ensemble

Event details

…a varied and highly enjoyable programme.

Limelight Magazine

Program

Claude Debussy - The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Katy Abbott*- Valentine
Paul Stanhope* -  Dolcissimo Uscignolo for piano trio
Sally Greenaway* - The Strawberry Thief for flute cello and piano
Kristofer Spike* - Elegy for a Dying Planet
Daneil Rojas* - Navegar
Joan Tower - Petroushkates
Edgar Girtain - Trio for flute, violin, and cello (Australian premiere)
Katy Abbott* - Making Angels

Credits

Ewa Kowalski
Flutes

Andrew Kennedy
Clarinets/artistic director

Daniel Lopez
Violin

Eleanor Streatfeild
Cello

Michael Ierace
Piano

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Attending this event

Plan your visit

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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