No matter what time of year you visit, chances are there will be an event or festival in or around Armidale.
Events not to be missed include the Autumn Festival, Big Chill Festival, The Bach Festival, The New England Garden Festival, Armidale International Film Festival and Guyra Lamb and Potato Festival. Other great annual events include New England Sings, The Armidale Cup, Guyra Trout Festival, Armidale Youth Orchestra Garden Party, Vintage Truck, Machinery and Heavy Horse Show and the NEGS Equestrian events. The calendar is full with premier sport events including the TAS Rugby Carnivals, Tour de Rocks and the 12hr Mountain Bike Enduro.
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Featuring Mini Singers, Cantilena Singers, New England Singers, Side-by-Side, The Good Notes, Rusty Singers, Jazz Vocal Project.
The Armidale Youth Orchestras invite the community to its annual concert. Featuring groups from the AYO. These include a full orchestra, string percussion/wind and brass ensembles, plus guest musicians from the Armidale music community – this is a great and inexpensive opportunity to introduce children to the absolute joy of music-making with friends and to celebrate the talented young musicians of our region. Recommended for ages 0 to 100!
Enjoy morning tea, a stroll through the magnificent gardens of Chevy Chase, followed by a morning of music presented by the Armidale Youth Orchestras.
The Australian Army Band is a 15-piece show band, including vocalists, bagpipes, rhythm section and winds. For several numbers the Army Band will be joined by the New England Wind Ensemble (NEWE), Armidale Youth Winds (AYW) and students from local school concert bands.
The program includes pieces by J S Bach, Tchaikovsky, Bartók and Dvořák, performed by alumni Madison Sim and David Tan (violins), Jonathan Bruhl (viola and voice), and Abigail Thompson (cello), accompanied by pianists Robert Manley, Euga Ruan, and Sheila Guymer. The 2024 prize winners of the Marian Barford award will be announced, and celebrations will continue with refreshments served after the concert on the upstairs balcony with the best views of town. The concert will raise funds for the Marian […]
A MODERN FIRST NATIONS X CLASSICAL MUSIC EXPERIENCE Out Of The Maze - Warren H. Williams, Julie Croft, and the Western Winds Ensemble Venue and bar open at 6:30PM. Doors at 7:00PM. Show starts at 7:30PM. Imagine the unique voice of internationally acclaimed First Nations recording artist Warren H. Williams, accompanied by the effortlessly brilliant and enigmatic Julie Croft on piano. Then add Croft’s bespoke arrangements for the 9-piece classical Western Winds Ensemble, and you have Out Of The Maze. This […]
Described as an exhilarating performer with faultless technique and fearless command of the piano, Australian based pianist Konstantin Shamray enjoys performing on an international level with the world’s leading orchestras and concert presenters. In 2008, Konstantin burst onto the concert scene when he won First Prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition. He is the first and only competitor to date in the 40 years of the competition to win both First and People’s Choice Prizes, in addition to six […]
The concert features an uplifting program of works that will both delight and inspire. The centrepiece of the concert is Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. This much loved classic has captured the imaginations of children and young people the world over through the wonderful integration of storytelling and music. The work, narrated by actor, Gareth Richards, tells the story of a young hero Peter who, along with his animal friends, spend a lovely afternoon at a meadow, a wolf however, […]
Over the holidays NECOM took delivery of our new concert grand piano, a Shigeru Kawai SK7, proudly funded by the NSW Government through the Creative Capital Funding Program. The new piano will be launched on Sunday 19 February at 3:00pm, in a concert featuring the NECOM piano staff and advanced students. The concert will showcase the new piano in its full capacity: as a solo instrument, a duet and accompaniment instrument, plus a work for 8 hands (4 pianists)! During […]
Join the Errol Russell Sinfonia as they champion some of the greatest works for strings. This vibrant chamber orchestra is made up of music teachers from the New England Conservatorium of Music, specially invited elite pre-tertiary and tertiary students and professional musicians from around the region. Working in collaboration with one of Australia’s most respected musicians Max McBride and ERS conductor Robert Jackson they will be performing: Bach Double Violin Concerto (Eliza Scott & David Tan violin); Mendelssohn Sinfonia No.10; […]
This event will feature three key themes; a musical Welcome to Country in the Anaiwan language titled Long Time Living Here, two French grand works in Saint Saens Piano Concerto in F major and Faure’s Requiem, and additionally works by Australian composers Nick Wales, Rachel Bruerville, and the Norwegian Ola Gjeilo. The two French works are key highlights of this concert, the first work (Saint Saens) featuring Deidre Rickards OAM as the soloist on piano, and the second (Faure) featuring Ziggy Harris and Sarah […]
A spectacular masterpiece of sonic grandeur, Monteverdi’s Vespers blends the grand traditions of Venetian sacred music with the new world of the baroque: opulent choruses, dramatic solo arias and duets, and some of the most ambitious instrumental music the world had ever heard. Grand yet intimate, prayerful yet sensual, Vespers is a musical experience like no other: a dazzling array of textures and sonorities that will amaze and delight. Artists: Erin Helyard (conductor and keyboards); Cantillation; Orchestra of the Antipodes. […]
