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Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 10, “Greatest Mozart II”, Fitters’ Workshop, May 3. Reviewed by IAN McLEAN. AS interesting as it is to hear, and to be challenged by, new music from our living composers, it’s also delightful to just enjoy the music of the master composers. In this case – Mozart! As a bonus, what an extra delight to hear that music played by wonderfully gifted musicians. That was the situation for Concert 10 of the Canberra International Music Festival when players from the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra (ARCO) performed a sublime concert...

Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 8, “Do I Matter?”  At the Fitters’ Workshop, May 2. Reviewed by IAN McLEAN. “DO I Matter?” is one of a two part chamber music work in the “Hidden Thoughts” series by Australian composer Katy Abbot, the senior lecturer in composition at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. “Hidden Thoughts” came about following an online survey where more than 200 women submitted answers to questions, such as: “Do you have hidden thoughts and feelings and what have you learned to be brave about?” Those answers became the text for “Do ...

Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 5, “Greatest Mozart I”, Fitters’ Workshop, May 1. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA A CELEBRATION of Mozart at his most cheerful greeted patrons of the Canberra International Music Festival in “Greatest Mozart I”, the first of two such concerts in the festival linked to the festival theme, “The Idea of Vienna”. To be sure, one of the three works played wasn’t actually Mozart, but there was method in the programming of this concert, in which soloists and musicians from the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra performed three major key ...

The Partridge String Quartet. Photo: Peter Hislop Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 3, “Schubert Sublime I”, The Partridge String Quartet. At Fitters’ Workshop, Kingston, May 1. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY. “WITH happiness” best describes how the audience reacted to having the Canberra International Music Festival back after the 2020 covid shutdown and hearing the Partridge String Quartet perform a seminal work of Franz Schubert. The Partridge String Quartet, which takes its name in honour of a previous member of the group, consists of William Huxtable, violin; Karla Hann...