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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 1800 001 190

Address: 1 Davey St 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.tso.com.au

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23.01.2022 One of the perennial challenges facing the small-to-medium arts sector is the shortage of genuine political support. In module 6 of Growing Pains in the Arts, the Hon Andrew Wilkie MP, Member for Clark will guide you in how to engage with your Members of Parliament and advocate for your work. Andrew Wilkie is the Independent Member for Clark. He has a strong sense of social justice and greatly understands the need for a strong arts sector in Tasmania. ... Join Andrew online from 12pm - 2pm on Zoom on Monday 16 November. Book your free spot: https://www.tso.com.au/growing-pains-in-the-arts/

22.01.2022 On #TSODailyDose we proudly mark today's launch of our new publishing initiative #TSOHouse with a performance by TSO Principal Clarinet, Andrew Seymour, of TSO House foundation composer Jabra Latham's SOLO for Clarinet. We're thrilled to launch our new venture with such a stunning and haunting original melody, performed masterfully by Andrew who commissioned the solo as an encore to follow his triumphant 2019 performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto (which we'll bring you th...is Friday on Daily Dose) Head over to the TSO website to learn more about TSO House and plans to celebrate more Tasmanian composers past and present. #clarinet #soloclarinet #TSOHouse #TasSymphony #StreamArts

22.01.2022 When you see our musicians on stage or on your screens you're watching a perfectly polished performance with lighting, hair & makeup and a carefully selected outfit. In reality, there are many rehearsals, mistakes, no makeup and comfy clothes. Caleb Miller captured these wonderful shots of a recent rehearsal.

21.01.2022 Today’s Daily Dose is a complete performance of the Cello Sonata No 1 by Alfred Schnittke, one of the most compelling composers of the last century. Cellist Jonathan Békés and pianist Karen Smithies deliver a coruscating performance. As Jono explains in his eloquent intro, this is music that you will not find relaxing or soothing, but it is full of heart and passion and creativity. Stay with it, as it is an experience that pays enormous dividends in its beautifully judged final movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7xZNBX3Ns&feature=youtu.be #tasmaniasorchestra #TSODailyDose

21.01.2022 Our foundation composer for the new TSO House is Tasmanian contemporary composer Jabra Latham. You probably recognise his name from a number of our Daily Dose videos. Jabra graduated with first class honours in classical saxophone performance in 1999 from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music. He has travelled far and wide for his craft, visiting the USA, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and France investigating practices in classical saxophone teaching and p...erformance. Jabra’s music has been performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Southern Cross Soloists, Virtuosi Tasmania, Andrew Seymour, Emily Sheppard, Niels Bijl, Xyris Quartet, Opus House and others, including broadcasts on ABC Classic FM and Local and recording for ABC Classic. He has frequently championed the music of various Australian composers: among them Russell Gilmour, Don Kay, Maria Grenfell, Simon Reade and Timothy Coghill, recording seven albums of new Australian music. His 2019 piece, Solo for Clarinet, as performed by Principal Clarinet Andrew Seymour, is available to purchase from https://www.tso.com.au/tso-house/ , along with many more when #TSOHouse website launches.

21.01.2022 Two chances to hear the TSO this weekend on ABC Classic. Saturday 28 Nov our recent Friday Night Live performance of Wagner, Zemlinsky and Schoenberg features actress Marta Dusseldorp, and on Sunday 29 Nov hear Siegfried Idyll. Both broadcast at 1pm. ABC Classic

20.01.2022 Growing Pains in the Arts #TSO's skills development program for Tasmania’s small-to-medium creative sector NOW AVAILABLE FOR REGISTRATION The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra announces the return of skills development program Growing Pains in the Arts, offering participants from Tasmania’s small-to-medium creative sector the opportunity to develop knowledge and experience in the areas of fundraising, marketing and governance. ... Hear from high-profile presenters - all expert in their fields including: Hon Andrew Wilkie MP - Independent Member for Clark, Brand Tasmania CEO Todd Babiak, Blundstone Australia co-COO Adam Blake, arts leader Tony Bonney, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's John De Paoli and Ten Days on the Island CEO JANE HALEY. The program is convened by Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO) CEO Caroline Sharpen and Director Marketing and Communications Samuel Cairnduff Sessions will run Mondays from 12 October - 30 November and are presented free-of-charge thanks to the support of the Minister for the Arts and the Tasmanian Community Fund Board. For more information, visit: https://www.tso.com.au/growing-pains-in-the-arts/ #artsfundraising #artsmarketing #artsgovernance #artsleadership #culturalleadership #tasmaniancreativesector #TasSymphony Tasmanian Arts Tasmania #GrowingPainsintheArts

20.01.2022 We know you've missed the excitement of coming into Federation Concert Hall to see a TSO performance; going to dinner pre-show, the buzz of chatter in the hall, the thrill of anticipation when the lights dim and the rapt silence while our musicians do their thing. We present Friday Night Live, our first ever digital concert series. Six weeks of concerts streamed live and featuring TSO ensembles of various sizes and an exhilarating range of repertoire, curated in collaboratio...n with our musicians. - Access to the stream is $22.50 per concert - Tune in from 6:45pm for Concert 101; interviews and notes on the music - Come behind the scenes after the concert with Clover Hill Wines Club Lounge In Conversations - an informal 30 minute catch-up over Zoom with guests, musicians and the people who have brought Friday Night Live together Keep an eye out for more information on concert schedules and tickets next week. Grab your friends, wine and food and stream us into your home with great sound, uninterrupted views and the best seats in the house! Friday nights, beginning 30th October. #FridayNightLive #TSO #FNL #DigitalConcert

20.01.2022 Thursday morning at around 6.50am hear #TasSymphony CEO Caroline Sharpen speaking with ABC Hobart Breakfast's Ryk Goddard about our new streamed concert series #FridayNightLive. TSO Friday Night Live - every Friday night from 30 October to 4 December at 7pm. View the concert schedule now at http://watch.tso.com.au/ and get your tickets ($22.50) #TasSymphony #FridayNightLive

20.01.2022 It's our last Growing Pains in the Arts module! Our final session is with Todd Babiak, CEO of Brand Tasmania, covering Role of the Arts in Place Branding and Promotion. How can we use narrative techniques to tell our own individual stories, the stories of our organisations, and act as partners in our collective efforts to build Tasmanian mystique for our audiences, clients, and patrons here, on mainland Australia, and around the world?... Join Todd at 12pm Monday November 30 on Zoom. Sign up for free at https://www.tso.com.au/growing-pains-in-the-arts/ With thanks to Arts Tasmania and the Tasmanian Community Fund for their support.

17.01.2022 Tickets are available now for all our Friday Night Live digital concerts! $22.50 per stream Every Friday night 30 October 4 December Concert 101 from 6.40pm... Performance at 7.00pm Schedule: 30 October JONES, VERHELST & MOZART 6 November WAGNER, ZEMLINSKY & SCHOENBERG 13 November DEBUSSY, JOHANN STRAUSS & STRAVINSKY 20 November HORNETT, CHINDAMO & TCHAIKOVSKY 27 November GRAINGER, GRIEG & MOZART 4 December IBERT, IVES & HAYDN Tickets and concert information: https://tso.5stream.com/#/home

16.01.2022 Feel a bit fancier at home - purchase one of the special TSO wine offers and you could win a virtual tasting with Clover Hill Wines! https://cloverhillwines.com.au/shop/tso-virtual-offer/

16.01.2022 Look what arrived! Our gorgeous trophy for our 2020 National Luminary Award came today - we're all very chuffed. Thank you again APRA AMCOS and Australian Music Centre, we are humbled and ecstatic to win this amazing inaugural award.... #tassymphony #artmusicawards

15.01.2022 And its a #TSODailyDose welcome back to the #basses of the TSO who have contributed some exceptionally memorable performances across the course of the series. Today Stuart Thomson, Aurora Henrich, James Menzies and Matt McGrath return to perform Colin Brumby's Suite for Four Double Basses. #TasSymphony #ColinBrumby #basses #bassquartet #StreamArts

15.01.2022 FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE. Great sound. Uninterrupted views. The best seats in the house. Yours. Live streamed concerts every Friday night from 30 October to 4 December at 7pm. Our first ever digital concert series is designed to provide audiences with the full experience of a TSO concert in your own living room - or wherever you choose to watch - Friday Night Live is a fully programmed series of concerts, featuring TSO ensembles of various sizes and an exhilarating range of repertoire, curated in collaboration with TSO musicians. View the concert schedule now at http://watch.tso.com.au/ and get your tickets ($22.50) from 12 NOON TODAY.

14.01.2022 Professor Rufus Black, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, discusses the role of music in his life highlighting, in particular, his fondness for liturgical polyphonic music. He presents the case for music as ‘aural philosophy’ and reveals a surprising family connection with Beethoven. The interview concludes with a rousing performance of Mendelssohn’s setting of Psalm 100 in an arrangement for brass choir by Johannes Fritzsch University of Tasmania #Beethoven #Mendelssohn #TasSymphony #StreamArts

13.01.2022 There are only 2 more Friday Night Live performances left! Your last chance to see the TSO live in 2020. If you haven’t tried the digital concert experience yet why not give it a go this week? Get your tickets for just $22.50 from http://watch.tso.com.au then join us on our stage, from the comfort of you home. ... #FridayNightLive #BestSeatintheHouse

12.01.2022 Many woodwind players make their own reeds, and it's quite the process. Thanks to our Principal Bassoon Tahnee for showing us how it is done! Videographer Toby Frost https://loom.ly/xtybELc

12.01.2022 Today marks a milestone on #TSODailyDose it’s Episode No. 183. We’ve been serving up fresh and varied musical treats on a daily basis for six solid months. In this landmark episode, host Mitch Nissen chats with Don Challen AM, TSO Chair. The focal point of the episode is a performance of the Adagio from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto performed by soloist Andrew Seymour with the TSO under conductor Tung-Chieh Chuang. Adding a poignant touch is a slideshow featuring TSO musicia...ns you’ve come to know over the past six months. Without them TSO Daily Dose would not have been possible. We move to a weekly format for the remainder of the year. Make sure you get your TSO Daily Dose each Friday at 8am! #TSODailyDose #TasSymphony #MozartClarinetConcerto #StreamArts #TasmaniasOrchestra

11.01.2022 Its Friday, which means your weekly edition of #tsodailydose!Emma McGrath and Sercan Danis deliver a blistering performance of the second movement (Allegro) of Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins. Fasten your seatbelts this is high-energy, high-level playing! #TasSymphony ##tsodailydose #twoviolins #StreamArts

11.01.2022 Limelight - 'The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra has launched a new publishing initiative, TSO House, which will showcase Tasmanian composers past and present. The venture will see music by Tasmanians available to hire to orchestras, community ensembles and schools around the world, and TSO House will also package and market TSO-produced family shows and its extensive library of education and community music resources'. #TasSymphony #tsohouse

10.01.2022 It's a celebration of #woodwind on today's #TSODailyDose as Lloyd Hudson, flute, Dinah Woods, oboe, Andrew Seymour, clarinet and Tahnee van Herk, bassoon perform Fauré's Pavane Op. 50 - arranged by Jules Evans #TasSymphony #Faure #TSODailyDose #StreamArts

10.01.2022 We are excited to introduce to you TSO House, as mentioned in this morning's Daily Dose video. TSO House new publishing venture initiated by the orchestra to take Tasmanian music further afield. TSO House will showcase works by both contemporary and established composers , as well as package and market TSO-produced family shows and its extensive library of education and community music resources. Tasmanian music will be available for hire to orchestras, youth orchestra, comm...unity ensembles and schools around the world. Playing a vital role in nurturing early career composers, TSO House will provide support and encouragement to the Australian Composer’s School - recently recognised with the inaugural ‘Luminary Award’ at the 2020 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards as well as work with locally-based composers writing for the TSO as part of its ongoing commissioning program. We can't wait to reveal more! https://www.tso.com.au/tso-house/

09.01.2022 'The Kfc Big Bash has a new unique sound for the summer, with a collaboration between Cricket Australia (Australian Cricket Club.) the prestigious Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and award-winning composer and music director, Chong Lim AM released to recognise the BBL’s tenth anniversary.' #BBL10 #tasmaniasorchestra

08.01.2022 Today we launch our Red Riding Hood project online, with a set of fun and interactive videos and resources supporting this exciting and vibrant TSO work for children. Huge congratulations to the TSO's Alison Lazaroff-Somssich who created and devised this unique telling of the classic fairy tale. Parents take note: lots of fun things for kids to do during the school holidays!... #TSOJoinIn #TasSymphony https://www.tso.com.au/red-riding-hood/

07.01.2022 Here at TSO we were so heart-warmed and delighted by the response to our Daily Dose series, and how it has been embraced by Tasmanian locals, interstaters and even reaching global audiences. We thank you for your support through these times. All of us at the TSO love music and entertaining, you have allowed us to continue to do what we love and give you what you love hear. We've kept calm, sanitised and now we are coming out the other side and we think you're ready for a low...er dosage. The same #TSODailyDose videos you know and love, now weekly, every Friday 8am.

06.01.2022 To celebrate National NAIDOC Week, on today's #TSODailyDose we are showcasing acclaimed Tasmanian Singer/Songwriter Dewayne Everettsmith with a specially recorded performance of 'It's Like Love' in the TSO Studio on Muwinina Country. Dewayne is joined by a string quartet made up of TSO musicians Alison Lazaroff-Somssich, Susanna Low, William Newbery and Martin Penicka. The TSO is committed to amplifying the stories, language, history, culture, and music of Tasmanian Aborigina...l people. We pay our deepest respects to those no longer here, and to the community today. We acknowledge that our island lutruwita, including its surrounding waters is, and always was, Aboriginal land. To learn more about NAIDOC Week visit www.naidoc.org.au #naidocweek2020 #alwayswasalwayswillbe #TSODailyDose #StreamArts

06.01.2022 On the first of our weekly #tsodailydoses enjoy a healthy serving of brass, with Rachmaninov's Prelude in C-sharp Minor (The Bells of Moscow), performed by the #tsobrass, conducted by Johannes Fritzsch. #TSODalyDose is released every Friday at 8am. ##rachmaninov #brass #TasSymphony #StreamArts

06.01.2022 Welcome back David Nuttall, oboe, and Jennifer Marten-Smith, piano who perform Schumann's Abendlied Op 85 No 12 on today's #TSODailyDose #TasSymphony #StreamArts

06.01.2022 A series of magnificent concerts curated by Van Diemen's Band Artistic Director Julia Fredersdorff throw a spotlight on Hobart’s finest resident musicians in the magical setting and stunning acoustics of the Town Hall Ballroom. Presented as part of Burning Desire Festival Click below for further information and booking.

05.01.2022 On today's #TSODailyDose we welcome back two masters of baroque violin, Van Diemen's Band Artistic Director Julia Fredersdorff and TSO Principal First Violin Jennifer Owen performing Leclair's Sonata for Two Violins in F, Op.3 No.4, I. Allegro assai #baroqueviolin #Leclair #knowyourkeys #TasSymphony #StreamArts

04.01.2022 Our free Growing Pains in the Arts online seminars, in partnership with Arts Tasmania are designed to educate local arts practitioners about how to build and manage a creative business. Over a long career in the arts, I’ve been the great beneficiary of knowledge and insights from others and I feel it’s only right to share what I know, - Jane Haley Ten Days on the Island CEO & GPITA presenter Read more in Stephanie Eslake's blog, and book yourself or someone you know into... one of the free upcoming seminars: https://www.tso.com.au/growing-pains-in-the-arts/

04.01.2022 Legendary composer and musical director Chong Lim collaborated with TSO this week, reworking The Temper Trap's Sweet Disposition (the 2020 theme) for the season opener of the KFC Big Bash League in Hobart tonight. Catch the performance and the Hobart Hurricanes vs Sydney Sixers match live from Blundstone Arena from 7.15pm. #TasmaniasOrchestra #BBL10 BBL

03.01.2022 FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE - DEBUSSY, JOHANN STRAUSS & STRAVINSKY 13 November - Live Stream from 7pm DEBUSSY (arr. FARRINGTON) Prélude à ‘L’aprés-midi d’un faune’ JOHANN STRAUSS (arr. SCHOENBERG) Emperor Waltz... STRAVINSKY Pulcinella Suite Stravinsky’s Pulcinella is a fresh and original reboot of music from the 18th century. The concert opens with Debussy’s languid and serene Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and includes Strauss’s Emperor Waltz freshly reimagined in Schoenberg’s orchestration. Grab your tickets ($22.50) from http://watch.tso.com.au

02.01.2022 Ever wondered what the basset horn looked and sounded like? Wonder no more as Eloise Fisher demystifies this rarely heard instrument and demonstrates its warm and rich tones. She is joined by Andrew Seymour, TSO Principal Clarinet, and pianist Jennifer Marten-Smith in a radiant performance of Mendelssohn’s Konzertstück (Concert Piece) No 1. #TSODailyDose #tasmaniasorchestra https://youtu.be/Uf47d-GZ9wU

01.01.2022 Only a few tickets remaining to Musica Viva Tasmania's final concert of 2020, featuring the TSO's Emma McGrath and Meriel Owen - Hobart Town Hall, this Monday 9 November 8pm. This promises to be a stunning concert!