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25.01.2022 FUNDRAISING ANNOUNCEMENT. It is my pleasure to announce that weve raised $14,966 from generous donors from our community... - Kyle Little | Artistic Director Steel City Strings is extremely grateful for the support weve received during this time of no concerts and dramatically reduced revenue. The support of donors has kept us afloat and supported our musicians. ... COMPLETE SURVEY: http://tiny.cc/aywlsz WATCH #IsolationStrings: www.steelcitystrings.com.au/virtual-recital #SteelCityStrings

25.01.2022 At Steel City Strings, we play the occasional symphonic work with some of our wind player friends and sometime well collaborate with choirs and singers. However, we are at heart a group of chamber musicians. So what is "chamber music"?... Chief Executive of Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Crispin Woodhead explains here. #SteelCityStrings

25.01.2022 In July, we heard from the SCS Quartet in their #IsolationStrings Virtual Recital. They premiered a new quartet, Dark Fire, commissioned by Steel City Strings by John Spence, Composer in Residence at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Here is a section of the quartet overlayed with images of bush undergoing regeneration after last summers bushfires. All images by Tony Williams from Four Donkey Films. #SteelCityStrings

25.01.2022 With COVID-19 restrictions slowly easing as the world moves through the pandemic, chamber music and chamber music ensembles may prove to be the way forward for art music. Lars Vogt on why small is beautiful via The Guardian. #SteelCityStrings #ChamberMusic

24.01.2022 "The study found that 35% of adults listened to classical music. Classical music was the fourth most popular music genre, with more fans than R&B or hip hop." ( via ABC Classic ) #SteelCityStrings

23.01.2022 Today’s rehearsal for ‘The Composer is in the Room’ at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Lyndall Fowler Tickets Now Available. A program not to be missed!... Wollongong Town Hall: https://bit.ly/3a87s6s Burradoo: https://bit.ly/2YkeVd5 Nowra: https://bit.ly/3r0fvck Steel City Strings is back in 2021 with an exciting concert event to present a new composition, ‘Cinque Forme d’Amore’ (‘Five Kinds of Love’) by Elena Kats-Chernin, voted the most popular Australian composer in 2019’s ABC Classic's Favourite Composer countdown. This piece was commissioned by local philanthropist Sue Kirby in memory of her late husband, Judge Jack Goldring. Also featuring music by Matthew Hindson, Ann Kirsten Carr-Boyd and more! Australian Music Centre | APRA AMCOS #SteelCityStrings #ComposerIsInTheRoom #AustralianMusic

23.01.2022 COMPETITION TIME! Want to win a FREE Steel City Strings Digital Subscription? Simply join our Email List to go in the draw to win 1 of 2 Digital Subscriptions.... HOW DO I ENTER? Join our Email List via the form at the bottom of our homepage at www.SteelCityStrings.com.au OR Send your email address privately to our Facebook page and we'll add you to our list! Conditions of Entry: - Entry only open to current non mailing list recipients. - Entries close Friday, 5th February at 5PM. - Digital Subscription prizes available until June 2021. #SteelCityStrings

23.01.2022 Did you watch the SCS Quartet Concert? We need your feedback. Our SCS Quartet performed their #IsolationStrings concert online a fortnight ago via YouTube and Facebook. If you missed it, you can catch up here for a limited time.... We need your help to help us move forward through the pandemic and provide us with your thoughts on this concert and the prospect and format of online concerts in the future. Please complete our five minute anonymous audience viewership survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SJ8NSTQ

23.01.2022 Date Night Just Got Classy... Steel City Strings - THE RETURN | Wollongong Town Hall Dec 5 @ 7:30PM | BOOK NOW: https://bit.ly/3flaRkp #SteelCityStrings

21.01.2022 AN ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVE ON CHAMBER MUSIC. "...chamber music has pushed the limits... New interactions and tonal qualities have been discovered through chamber music; frontiers have been explored by the greatest composers of the last few centuries trying to find exciting ways of expression." - Aaron M. Sacks. READ FULL JOURNAL: http://tiny.cc/fj8nsz... #SteelCityStrings #ChamberMusic

21.01.2022 : J.Burrows Digital Work

20.01.2022 We love this new work by Alice Chance.

20.01.2022 ABC Classic this week are focusing on composers pets and animals. Did you know there were two seperate British composers who both named their dog Marco? #SteelCityStrings #ABCClassic

19.01.2022 MANAGER YVE REPIN OAM RETIRES. "From 1 August I will be retiring from my role as SCS volunteer manager, when Jeremy Boulton will be taking on the manager role; Jeremy has been managing the Isolation Strings online events that you have been enjoying over the past few months. I will continue in a back room role, managing admin and finance matters, and it will still be me picking up the phone if you ring us. The most enjoyable part of my job over the past 5 years has been meet...ing and talking to you, our audience members, even when you are pointing out one of the many mistakes Ive made over the years. I am greatly looking forward to working with Jeremy, and I hope to be seeing all of you again in a concert hall some time in the future. Warm regards, Yve." -- Would you like to send thank you messages and well-wishes to Yve? Email them to [email protected] or get in touch via Facebook or Instagram and well ensure your messages are sent her way. Steel City Strings recognises and thanks Yve Repin for her tremendous service to our orchestra and the broader classical music community in the Illawarra across an incredible five and a half years. She will remain a crucial member of the SCS team and help us forge the way forward through this pandemic. #SteelCityStrings

18.01.2022 Confused about which orchestra is which? Find out all about it here in a 3 minute explanation by ABC Classics Russell Torrance. #SteelCityStrings

16.01.2022 19 string players talk to Strings Magazine about why they play chamber music. ( via Strings Magazine ) #SteelCityStrings

16.01.2022 Until our upcoming digital projects are ready, well be sharing other local classical music projects that happen online so you can stay connected and keep the music going at home. Today at 3PM, Jeremy Boulton (Baritone) performs a short programme of Lieder with our regular program note writer and concert announcer, David Vance (Piano). You can watch the full recital here for free on Steel City Strings Facebook page and catch up in the same place for 7 days. ---...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Local composers, take note of this brilliant initiative from the Australian Music Centre.

14.01.2022 So exciting to see one of our local cellists, Catalina Dermenjian working on a seperate project from ours with Elena Kats-Chernin. Elena's music will feature in our Steel City Strings - The Composer is in the Room program from Feb 28 - March 7. A new commission from Sue Kirkby. Also featuring music by Matthew Hindson, Ann Carr-Boyd and more!... TICKETS: Wollongong: https://bit.ly/3a87s6s Burradoo: https://bit.ly/2YkeVd5 Nowra: https://bit.ly/3r0fvck Australian Music Centre | APRA AMCOS #SteelCityStrings #ComposerIsInTheRoom #AustralianMusic

13.01.2022 Remember when our Artistic Director, Kyle Little performed his rendition of Eric Whitacres Lux Arumque online? We love this new example of online choral singing - something Whitacre has refined immaculately. #SteelCityStrings #EricWhitacre

13.01.2022 On Sunday, our musicians got together safely at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music with masks and social distancing to begin rehearsal for our upcoming online project. More information to come soon! (We know, were such teases arent we?!) Our musicians cant wait to greet you in your living rooms over the coming months. #SteelCityStrings #IsolationStrings #covidsafe #illawarrabusiness #scsquartet

12.01.2022 #FromTheArchive Steel City Strings collaboration with Rebecca Moore at Wollongong Art Gallery . #SteelCityStrings

12.01.2022 #IsolationStrings | Selfie Competition Winner. Our winning entry of the #IsolationStrings Selfie Competition is Natalie and family! They spent the afternoon with tea, cakes and scones at home. Congratulations. Its so great to see youngsters connecting with their local orchestra. Natalie and family will receive a Steel City Strings prize pack of CDs and DVDs.... #SteelCityStrings #IsolationStrings #KeepTheMusicGoing

12.01.2022 This is what we really like to see. Excellent initiative by The Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra building the players of the future! (Perhaps some future Kees Boersma-s or Domenico Dragonetti-s amongst their ranks!) #MusicEducation

11.01.2022 Our November Concert from our 2020 Digital Season | Oct // Nov // Dec is released tonight via: https://steelcitystrings.com.au/digital-season/ If you have purchased a Digital Seasons Subscription already, please check your email for your confirmation email with your unique digital access code. If you have not yet purchased a ticket, please do so via and you https://www.trybooking.com/BLXSI will be issued with a unique access code.... If you have technical difficulties or need help logging on, please get in touch with our Technical Support Team via [email protected] who will be on standby from 6:45PM to assist with your enquiries. #SteelCityStrings #DigitalSeason

10.01.2022 Illawarra Business Awards FINALIST Steel City Strings has been nominated as an award finalist by the Illawarra Business Chamber for "Excellence in Digital Service Delivery" for our #IsolationStrings online performance series, culminating in our SCS Quartet Recital. You can read the full list of nominees in todays Illawarra Mercury.... FULL LIST http://tiny.cc/6x1psz

10.01.2022 As we come out of isolation and deliver larger scale digital performances for our valued patrons and supporters, we are making sure were #COVIDSafe by registering our COVID Safe plan with the NSW Government. Were committed to keeping our players, volunteers and audience safe during this difficult time. #COVIDSafe #SteelCityStrings

10.01.2022 William Barton appeared on Q+A on ABC TV + iview last night. We can wait to perform with him again as part of our 'Earth Connections' program later this year. #SteelCityStrings #WilliamBarton

10.01.2022 The Australian Music Centres 2020 Art Music Awards are online this year.

09.01.2022 Our 2020 Digital Season continues this week with our November concert: Corelli, Beethoven, Holst. Just $30 to access 3 incredible concerts over 3 incredible months + exclusive access to our archive. Purchase your 2020 Digital Season subscription here: https://www.trybooking.com/BLXSI... #SteelCityStrings #DigitalSeason

09.01.2022 "Chamber music has pushed the limits... tonal qualities have been discovered... have been explored" - A.M. Sacks"Chamber music has pushed the limits... tonal qualities have been discovered... have been explored" - A.M. Sacks

08.01.2022 Were excited for the COVID Safe Illawarra Business Chambers Awards afternoon at the WIN Entertainment Centre. Youll be able to watch how we go live via Facebook, courtesy of WIN Television. #SteelCityStrings #DigitalServiceDelivery #IllawarraBusinessAwards #IllawarraBusiness

07.01.2022 KEEPING OUR YOUTH MUSICAL. We love this excellent initiative from City of Wollongong / Creative Wollongong. For those looking to join the workshops, contact Southern Youth & Family Services on 4227 8222 or email at [email protected]. Please be aware that spaces are limited.

07.01.2022 Seasons Concert Series Cancellation. With a steady rise in COVID-19 cases in New South Wales, we have moved to cancel our September 2020 concert series. Ticket holders will be contacted. More information will be provided soon regarding our plan to move forward through the pandemic.... #SteelCityStrings

07.01.2022 8PM TONIGHT | via Sydney Opera House 2019 Steel City Strings Guest Soloist, Anna Da Silva Chen appears on the stage of the Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House via YouTube Premiere. (via Sydney Opera House)

06.01.2022 Tonight, our Guest Soloist from 2019, Anna Da Silva Chen who dazzled us with her Beethoven Violin Concerto, will feature in this online performance hosted by the Sydney Opera Houses Digital Season. #SteelCityStrings

06.01.2022 Throwback to our #SCSQuartet Isolation Strings recording. Here is our wonderful quartet with John Spence recording at CMG AV in June! Weve got more online concerts in the works for the rest of the year. Stay tuned to find out more! You can catch up on #IsolationStrings here ... CATCH UP: https://youtu.be/ZMHIY0ezfI8 #SteelCityStrings

06.01.2022 Pot of Gold Mexican Cantina in Wollongong Mall proudly support us by displaying our poster. You can do the same for us at your business! Please get in touch with us at [email protected] to request DL fliers, A3 and A4 posters! ... Every bit helps us spread the word about our concerts. #steelcitystrings #elenakatschernin

05.01.2022 A NOTE FROM NEW MANAGER JEREMY BOULTON. Dear Subscribers, Im thrilled to take on the role of Manager of Steel City Strings. The organisation is a staple of the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands art music communities and has done incredible work in commissioning new Australian works in regional NSW over the years.... Yve Repin OAM has my complete admiration in the work she has carried out over almost six years and I hope to continue the high standard of management that the board, committee and players have experienced. Congratulations Yve on your stellar efforts. Yve will still be performing key aspects of her role and Im sure Ill be ringing her quite often as I learn the ropes! If you would like to know more about me, you can check out my website here: www.jeremyboulton.com.au More importantly though, I would like to get to know you all better. SCS has an incredible community that makes it what it is - proven by the wave of support it received during the #IsolationStrings fundraiser. Please feel free to get in touch via [email protected] and say gday. Im very interested in how we can improve our engagement with subscribers and the broader music community in our region. Thanks, Jeremy | Manager

05.01.2022 As you might know, we love playing Australian works. Our programs have included works by Peter Sculthorpe, Ann Carr-Boyd, John Spence and Paul Stanhope, composer who today will feature in a digital concert by the Australian String Quartet . We at Steel City Strings love this quartet and cannot wait to hear Pauls work brought to life by these fabulous musicians. The last time we played Pauls work was during our final program in 2019 where we played the Mozart Jupiter Symphon...y and the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Anna Da Silva Chen . Tune in today via their On Demand subscription. #Repost @australianstringquartet with @get_repost A sneak peek ahead of this Sundays live stream of @paul.stanhope.73s String Quartet no 3. Details via the link in our bio! #livestream #asqliveatukaria #rehearsal #backstage #stringquartet @elderconservatorium @uniofadelaide @ukariaculturalcentre

04.01.2022 Celli at the ready! Principal Cellist, Karella Mitchell shares a lower strings selfie! Today’s rehearsal for ‘The Composer is in the Room’. All details on our website! www.SteelCityStrings.com.au... #SteelCityStrings

03.01.2022 Our very own Adrian Davis, Principal Viola appeared on WIN News Illawarra tonight talking about our finalist nomination for Excellence in Digital Service Delivery in the Illawarra Business Chambers Illawarra Business Awards for 2020. We have our fingers crossed! #SteelCityStrings #IllawarraBusiness

03.01.2022 Weve seen the London Mozart Players masked up and playing together for virtual viewers. However, thing are much different for woodwind and brass players and vocalist. Hopefully well soon know more about singing and playing brass and woodwind and its contribution to the spread of viruses via aerosols and droplets. "The study that Costello has set up with Reid and other colleagues funded by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and sponsored by Public Health E...ngland aims to insert some facts into the discussion. The researchers hope to publish their findings in a matter of weeks incredibly fast by the usual standards of peer-reviewed academic publishing." ( via The Guardian ) #SteelCityStrings #TheGuardian #KeepTheMusicGoing #COVIDSafe

02.01.2022 Steel City Strings are ready to get back to performing with you when a COVID-19 becomes widely available and taken up. Until then, we are keenly observing the work that is being done by Roundtable of Instrumental, Vocal and Music Education Organisations to get musicians both amateur and professional working together to make music again in a COVID Safe manner. If you are one of the following, please consider supporting them by completing their 8-10 minute survey.... 1. Music Educators (classroom teachers, music ensemble directors, music tutors) 2. Players/Participants/Music Students (for those who are members of music ensemble groups) #SteelCityStrings #scsquartet #IsolationStrings #covidsafe #illawarrabusiness #ClassicalMusicIllawarra

02.01.2022 Download our full program for 'The Return' here: https://steelcitystrings.com.au/return-digital-program/ Tickets are still available for our Wollongong Town Hall concert here: https://bit.ly/3flaRkp #SteelCityStrings #TheReturn

01.01.2022 Our Principal Cellist, Karella Mitchell taking a cheeky selfie at today's rehearsal at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music. Wollongong Tickets: https://bit.ly/3flaRkp #SteelCityStrings #Wollongong