Tommy Tycho was born in Budapest in 1928. His musical life started as a child prodigy pianist. He played George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra at age 10. He commenced studying at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where his teachers included Leo Weiner and Zoltán Kodály. He and…
Breakfast on Bondi
On 22 September I received a phone call from Gareth Lewis of Fourth Wall Events asking if we would be interested in providing the orchestra for the inaugural Breakfast on Bondi event as part of the Crave Sydney International Food Festival on Sunday 23 October, playing an hour of music at sunrise to an audience…
2011 Season 3 – Fire & Ice
Two masterpieces of the Romantic repertoire will be featured in Strathfield Symphony’s third season concert on Sunday 11 September at 2.30pm at Strathfield Town Hall. Kenichi Mizushima returns as soloist in one of the greatest and best loved of all cello concertos, the fiery Dvorák Concerto in B minor, op 104. And in his debut…
Kenichi Mizushima
Kenichi was born in 1986 in Sydney, and began his cello lesson at the age of two and a half with Takao Mizushima, his father, and has appeared as a soloist on many occasions since he was five. Kenichi has toured Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Italy, England, Singapore, USA and New Zealand both as…
2011 Season 2 – Rowing for Rivendell
Great music for a great cause! Strathfield Symphony presents Elena Kats-Chernin as soloist and Geoffrey Gartner conducting sensational music on 24 & 25 June at Strathfield Town Hall. Kats-Chernin “Redmyre Suite”- commissioned by the Orchestra in 2009 and revised for these concerts Kats-Chernin “Mater” – arranged for full orchestra in a commission for these performances…
Strathfield Symphony Orchestra 