For its 50th year, the SSO is focusing its 2019 program on a central theme: the music of celebration through the ages. The program opens with a nod to history – the Classical and Romantic periods of music – but critically, the year is about celebrating the future of the SSO and another inspired 50…
2018-03 Handel’s Messiah
Saturday 15th September, 7pm Sunday 16th September, 2.30pm “Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will towards men.” Christmas is coming early this year with our performance of Handel’s Messiah. Reciting the story of Christ, Handel’s Messiah tells the story from the coming of the virgin birth, through to the resurrections…
Joshua Oxley
Joshua Oxley in a exciting young tenor based in Sydney. His operatic roles include Tamino (Mozart, Die Zauberflöte, Sydney Conservatorium), Don Ottavio (Mozart, Don Giovanni, Opera Hunter), Alfredo (Verdi, La Traviata, Opera New England), Jenik (Smetana, The Bartered Bride, Rockdale Opera Company), Mozart (Rimsky-Korsakov, Mozart and Salieri, Bare Bones Opera), Sam Polk (Floyd, Susannah, Opera New England), Remendado (Bizet, Carmen, Opera New…
Lotte Latukefu
Dr Lotte Latukefu is Head of Performing Arts at Excelsia College in Sydney. Prior to that she lectured in the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong for 18 years. Lotte has premiered, nationally and internationally, eleven new Australian compositions in collaboration with composers and internationally recognised virtuosic chamber music performers. She is…
John Antoniou
John Antoniou, studied at the N.S.W. Conservatorium of Music and began his professional career with the Australian Opera in 1981. After winning several singing competitions, John was able to study in Europe in 1984 and 1986. Between 1987 and 1991 John was engaged as a soloist with the Vienna Staatsoper. Upon returning to Australia he…
2018-02 Czech Please!
Saturday 30th June, 7pm Sunday 1st July, 2.30pm A trail of breadcrumbs begins our second season for 2018. Beginning ‘Czech Please’ with Humperdinck’s Prelude from Hansel and Gretel, Strathfield Symphony will be performing Paganini’s Violin Concerto performed by Tinel Dragoi. Our second half will be sure to invoke feelings of patriotism. Heralding from the New…
