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25.01.2022 A great and rare find by Alan Cook - Conductor whose specialties include Russian music. This time last year we were rehearsing Rimsky-Korsakov’s Antar Symphony under Alan’s baton.

23.01.2022 Our clarinets are definitely the nice and smooth kind

22.01.2022 To all our members doing their day jobs from home, how’s this working out for you?

20.01.2022 Um... what? And why?! Is this real or a prank?

20.01.2022 Also on 6 August 2017, Katherine Day, concert pianist performed the Emperor Concerto with us. There is so much power and beauty in her playing - at one rehearsal she actually broke a piano string!!

19.01.2022 More fun with our friends in The Vegetable Plot this weekend - and it’s free!

18.01.2022 Congratulations Leonard Weiss! We are thrilled for you!

16.01.2022 Rob was our soloist for Gliere’s Horn Concerto a few years ago. Read more about his amazing work!

15.01.2022 Last year we had a great time performing Christopher Gordon’s ‘On the Beach’ and Vaughn Williams’ Sea Symphony. David Greco was one of our soloists - this week his recording of Die schöne Müllerin is featured on ABC Classic as album of the week for the Classic Drive program.

14.01.2022 Check out this premiere by Chloe Sinclair, whose Autonomy we premiered a few years ago.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to cellist Christopher Pidcock on his new album release this Sunday. Enjoy a few teaser tracks here! https://christopherpidcock.bandcamp.com/releases Fond memories of our sold-out Elgar Cello Concerto with Chris a few years ago.

14.01.2022 Looking forward to the day of dopo la riapertura

14.01.2022 Tomorrow night we will be playing through the 3rd movement of Beethoven’s Symphony #9. Looking forward to making music again with our friends Canberra Choral Society at some time in the future.

13.01.2022 From now on, our conductors will be requested to refer to repeats as ‘wormholes’

13.01.2022 Congratulations to all our members and especially Conductor Louis Sharpe! Overall, it was a performance to be proud of. The loud and sustained applause from the audience at the end was well deserved, review by Len Power

13.01.2022 It’s been a looooong time since we’ve all tuned together #doublereeds #doubletrouble #tuning #oboelife

12.01.2022 One of the most fun songs we’ve played! Pretending your instrument is a car horn brings out our playful side

11.01.2022 March to the scaffold and requiem for this double reed!

11.01.2022 Cellist Christopher Pidcock joined us a few years ago for Elgar's Concerto. In between SSO he is keeping busy with new music!

11.01.2022 Come to our next concert to find out whether Brahms included a Dies Irae in his requiem. Hint: it’s in German rather than Latin...

10.01.2022 Everyone can enjoy making music!

09.01.2022 Some eloquent thoughts here from composer Dante Clavijo. Thus begins one of the great debates - is music literacy an essential skill?

09.01.2022 Free streamed concerts! Including a performance by the very talented Matt Withers - Australian Guitarist

08.01.2022 Here’s a taste of Sally’s fabulous music. It sounds even better live and in a concert hall

08.01.2022 what time signature is this in?

08.01.2022 For all our members and friends who are Virgos... how did your day go?

07.01.2022 ‘Originally conceived as an adjunct to the symphony orchestra, but it didn’t catch on’

07.01.2022 Sunday is a day of...

07.01.2022 This guy must be missing orchestra so much that he started his own one man orchestra. Seriously, pretty amazing effort! Has anyone else started learning a new instrument as their iso hobby? https://youtu.be/C67V3x76AsM

06.01.2022 A musical hug from the fabulous Matt Withers - Australian Guitarist

06.01.2022 Nice one Matt Withers - Australian Guitarist

05.01.2022 ‘When first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation. Many have called the first-night reaction a "riot" or "near-riot," though this wording did not come about until reviews of later performances in 1924, over a decade later.’

05.01.2022 NCO members might be interested in this competition by the Australian Double Reed Society. As well as oboe and bassoon entries, there is a ‘friends’ category for groups of 1-5 players with at least 1 double reed instrument included. Sadly, no entries for cor anglais or contrabassoon but the Baroque category allows for period instruments. https://www.adrs.org.au//2020-national-confere/competition

05.01.2022 We’re considering this as a safety measure for our NCO members

05.01.2022 Respect for percussionists!! Playing 5/4 with one hand, 7/4 with the other, 9/16 with his feet!

05.01.2022 Explore the magic of the piano with one of Australia's most incredible technicians.

03.01.2022 A few years ago we sailed the seven seas with David in Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony. Now you can unwind with him for a scrumptious 15 minute musical mash-up thanks to Phoenix Central Park.

02.01.2022 Another musical memory - in the lead up to our concert on 6 August 2017 we had the honour of not one but two Aussie composers workshopping their compositions with us. Christopher Gordon’s Moby Dick Suite and Nigel Sabin’s Symphony, with Leonard Weiss conducting. Great music, great people, great times *sighs nostalgically.

02.01.2022 Next Monday we’ll be playing Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter). Sight reading should be interesting...

02.01.2022 A little bit of musical trivia right in the heart of Canberra.

01.01.2022 Andrew Rumsey made playing Rachmaninov look effortless when he performed with us last year, not to mention giving the world premiere of Michael Dooley’s piano concerto at that concert. Andrew is incredibly talented though!

01.01.2022 Double reeds are forever