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MEDIA RELEASEAlyssa Lim – Publicity Manager, Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Tel: (02) 8215 4694 / Mob: +61 450 667 613Email: alyssa.lim@sydneysymphony.com

2020 Season

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra launches its 2020 Season and announces its return to historical Sydney Town Hall home

• The Sydney Symphony Orchestra announces the Sydney Town Hall as its main home during the refurbishment of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall throughout 2020 and 2021

• The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 Season features landmark works and audience favourites, and welcomes luminary conductors and international soloists

• Nine special events to feature large-scale works and multi-disciplinary collaborations, led by four visionary conductors: Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles, Conductor Laureate Vladimir Ashkenazy, esteemed guest conductor Simone Young and returning as guest conductor, David Robertson

• Internationally acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop to feature a global project with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as part of world-wide collaboration with world’s leading orchestras

• The Sydney Symphony Orchestra launches new concert formats allowing more options for audiences to experience music with Australia’s premier orchestra

• The Sydney Symphony Orchestra features 23 Australian artists in its 2020 Season

• The Sydney Symphony Orchestra continues to highlight virtuosity of its own musicians in genre-crossing collaborations, soloist features, and guest conductor roles

• The Sydney Symphony Orchestra expands its regional performances, allowing more communities to experience symphonic music with Australia’s premier orchestra

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra today announces its 2020 Season, revealing its new Sydney Town Hall home and an upcoming program featuring landmark works, luminary international conductors, the world’s most sought-after artists, and new concert offerings.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Executive Officer, Emma Dunch is delighted to announce another innovative program and lead Australia’s premier orchestra in a historically-defining chapter of the Orchestra’s journey.

“It is my absolute pleasure to announce the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 Season,” says Dunch.

“In 2020, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will be returning to the place we called home from 1932 to 1973. We are excited to name the Sydney Town Hall as our main performance venue over the next two years, before returning to continue our residency at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall at the start of 2022.

“This is a truly exciting time for the us – we will be embarking on the most significant period of transformations in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s history. We cannot wait to share the program with our audiences as we continue on this musical journey – there will be major works, audience favourites, and even more ways to experience music with Australia’s premier orchestra!”

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra announces historical Sydney Town Hall home as its new main performance venue in 2020 and 2021 The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has named the Sydney Town Hall as its main performance venue in 2020 and 2021, while the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall undergoes its largest-ever refurbishment. Funded by the NSW Government, this major upgrade will improve acoustics, stage and backstage areas, theatre systems and accessibility in the iconic venue that the Orchestra calls home.

Ahead of its return to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 2022, the Orchestra’s mainstage concerts will take place in the Centennial Hall at the Sydney Town Hall. Serving as its home from 1932 until the Orchestra took up permanent residency in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 1973, the Sydney Town Hall holds historical significance for the Sydney Symphony. The Orchestra’s time at the central CBD venue featured some of the greatest names in musical history, including pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy who performed there in the early years of his career. In acknowledgement of his long-standing relationship with the Orchestra as a pianist and now conductor, Ashkenazy has been named the first-ever Conductor Laureate of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

The landmark building’s Centennial Hall will allow audiences to experience symphonic music with the Orchestra in a venue highly celebrated for its acoustic richness.

In addition to the Sydney Town Hall, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will continue to perform and share music in venues throughout the state, including the City Recital Hall. Together with the Sydney Coliseum Theatre West HQ, the Orchestra announced its anchor partnership with the venue earlier in the year, establishing a performing presence at the newly built venue to share musical experiences with the Rooty Hill community and the Greater Western Sydney region. The Orchestra will also continue to share musical experiences beyond the Sydney area through its annual Regional Tour, and outreach programs.

THURSDAY 1 AUGUST, 2019 – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra features nine special events throughout its 2020 SeasonOver nine special events, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will feature large-scale works and multi-disciplinary collaborations with leading international conductors.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra features among international orchestras in global project led by conductor Marin Alsop, celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth Marin Alsop, American conductor and former student of the celebrated conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, will lead a year-long celebratory global project. The reimagining of his Ninth Symphony as part of the “A Global Ode to Joy” project will include Australia’s premier orchestra and orchestras across five continents including in São Paulo, Brazil; London, England; Baltimore, Maryland, USA; major centres in New Zealand; Vienna, Austria; Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa; and New York, USA.

Often hailed as one of Beethoven’s greatest works, Alsop will conduct the Ninth Symphony in different cities throughout the world and reimagine the piece for each community. Alongside the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Alsop will perform Symphony No.9, working closely with Indigenous representatives to incorporate traditional music as part of the performance (7-9 August).

The worldwide series of concerts highlights the brotherhood of man and seeks to bring diverse communities together – themes that underpin Beethoven’s choral work.

Celebrated globally as one of the world’s leading conductors, Alsop has worked extensively with the world’s major orchestras. In 2013, she became the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms concert as part of the annual classical music BBC Proms festival held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 1989, she was the first woman to receive the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize from Boston’s prestigious Tanglewood Music Centre.

Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles returns to lead Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis, an Italian Opera Gala and is joined by in-demand violinist Christian Tetzlaff

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s first-ever Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles will return to lead what is often regarded as one the greatest works in the classical canon, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (18-21 March). With the participation of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Runnicles and the Orchestra will capture the deep spiritual significance that the work held for the composer and reflect the inscription that he wrote on the original manuscript – “From the heart – may it return to the heart.”

Renowned for his interpretations of opera repertoire, Runnicles and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will perform an Italian Opera Gala (25-28 March) featuring works by opera composers Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, among others. Both performances will see the Orchestra and Runnicles joined by young Australian singers Siobhan Stagg (soprano) and Derek Welton (bass), Samuel Sakker (tenor), and Russian Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (mezzo-soprano).

Runnicles will also be joined by one of the world’s most-sought after violinists, Christian Tetzlaff for special performances from 19-21 November. Known for his captivating lyricism and refined interpretations of compositions, the German violinist will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto in his long-awaited return to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. On 22 November in a standalone special event, Tetzlaff will also perform a recital of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas.

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David Robertson returns as guest conductor to lead multi-collaborative performance of Brahms’ greatest choral work

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra will welcome back David Robertson as guest conductor in 2020, following his six-year tenure as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director.

The renowned conductor, who shaped the Orchestra’s sound during his time with the Orchestra, will lead Brahms’ A German Requiem – a large-scale work for chorus and orchestra. The concert programs will feature Australians Cleo Lee-McGowan (soprano), Michael Honeyman (baritone) and the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs together with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (16-18 July).

A young soprano, Lee-McGowan is gaining recognition as a leading Australian opera singer of her generation. Debuting with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2019 under Robertson’s baton in the operatic work Britten’s Peter Grimes in Concert and reputed for his dramatic baritone roles, Honeyman was formerly a banker before pursuing a career as an opera singer.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra will cross genres, featuring Latin-inspired programming

Showcasing the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s ability to traverse different genres, the 2020 Season will feature Latin-inspired concerts, A Night at the Speakeasy: The 1950s Latin Lounge (5-8 February).

The special program will include Australian soprano Ali McGregor performing hits of Yma Sumac, the Peruvian coloratura soprano credited as the most famous exponent of the Latin music genre in the 1950s. Following her debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the first Night at the Speakeasy concerts in 2018, burlesque artist Imogen Kelly will return to perform in The 1950s Latin Lounge program. Kelly is currently the only Australian to be crowned a World Queen of Burlesque by The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.

Esteemed guest conductor Simone Young leads Viennese inspired concerts

Simone Young, one of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s esteemed guest conductors, returns to lead A Viennese Gala from 5-7 September featuring works by Johann Strauss Jr and Johann Strauss Sr. The program will feature a night of waltzes, polkas and marches – music typically heard at the annual Wiener Philharmoniker Ball in Austria.

A Viennese Gala is part of Young’s multi-year Visions of Vienna series, inspired by the Austrian capital city and known for its significant role in classical music.

The Sydney-born conductor was named a Young Australian of the Year in 1987 for her contribution to the Arts. In 2005, she was the first female conductor of the prestigious Wiener Philharmoniker in its then 156-year history. More recently, Young was the Artistic Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Music Director of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Over the course of her career, she has guest collaborated with leading international orchestras in prestigious venues around the globe.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra spotlights its musicians performing Bach’s complete Brandenburg concertos

Led by Australian conductor and harpsichordist Erin Helyard and featuring Sydney Symphony orchestral soloists, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will perform Bach’s complete Brandenburg concertos (23-24 October).

The first of the six movements in the Brandenburg Concertos was chosen as the first piece of music to be played on the Voyager Golden Records, a set of two phonograph records that was included as part of the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. The records contained sounds and images indicative of the diversity of life and culture on Earth, with the music by Bach representing the pinnacle of human achievement.

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra welcomes internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists The Sydney Symphony Orchestra features programs curated by its four visionary conductors in continuation of their multi-year artistic projects

Launched in 2019, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will continue to feature the artistic projects of its four visionary conductors Donald Runnicles, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Simone Young, and David Robertson. The multi-year cycles of each of the international conductors’ own curation will run through 2020, 2021, taking audiences on unique musical journeys over multiple performances across several seasons.

Conductor Laureate Vladimir Ashkenazy returns to lead programs inspired by Nordic countries and is joined by debuting violinist Akiko Suwanai

Vladimir Ashkenazy, named Conductor Laureate in 2019 – an honour never-before bestowed on any Sydney Symphony conductor – will return to lead a series of performances titled the Northern Lights Festival, featuring works from Scandinavia and Finland. The first in the program will feature Norwegian composer Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1 and 2, and Finnish composer Sibelius’ Symphony No.5 (21-23 May). The second program of the Northern Lights Festival will feature an all-Sibelius program, including the Karelila Suite, Symphony No.1, and the composer’s Violin Concerto performed by violinist Akiko Suwanai (27-30 May) in her debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Japanese violinist Suwanai was the youngest ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990, a major event in the international music community which has launched the careers of some of the biggest names in the classical world over the last 61 years. Her collaborations have seen her perform with orchestras across Europe and Asia, including the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bamberger Symphoniker in Germany, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She performs on the Stradivarius ‘Dolphin’ violin from 1714, one of the world’s most famous violins and previously owned by violinist Jascha Heifetz, regarded as one of the greatest performing artists in musical history.

Violinist Augustin Hadelich debuts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra alongside returning guest conductor David Robertson

Conductor David Robertson will be joined by violinist Augustin Hadelich performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto alongside the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The program will also feature the Fourth Symphony by the same composer, and Strauss’ Serenade (8-11 July).

Recently named Musical America’s 2018 “Instrumentalist of the Year”, Hadelich is cited for his phenomenal technique, soulful approach and insightful interpretations. In 2016, he won the “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” Grammy Award for his recording of Dutilleux’s violin concerto, L’arbre des songes with the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot. The 35-year-old musician has performed with orchestras internationally, including the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the London Philharmonic, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, New York and Wigmore Hall in London, among other world-renowned venues.

David Stern, Pietari Inkinen, Fabien Gabel and Jun Märkl make their conducting debuts with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Conductor David Stern, son of celebrated American violinist Isaac Stern, will debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in its Classics in the City concerts, a new concert format that will focus on music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic period. Stern will lead the orchestra in a program featuring music by Handel and Telemann (1-2 April).

Working across three continents, Stern is founder and director of the Paris-based Opera Fuoco ensemble, artistic adviser and chief conductor of the Shanghai Baroque Festival and chief conductor of the Palm Beach Opera in Florida.

Chief conductor of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, Pietari Inkinen will debut with the Sydney

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Symphony Orchestra, conducting the prelude to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring at the Sydney Town Hall (19-20 February).

World-renowned German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott will return to Australia, performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto alongside conductor Fabien Gabel in his debut leading the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (23-26 September). Müller-Schott last performed with the Orchestra in 2017 to critical acclaim.

Highly-respected as an interpreter of Germanic repertoire and explorations of French Impressionists, conductor Jun Märkl will debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, leading performances of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Debussy’s La mer (26-29 February).

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra invites conductors Alexander Shelley and Jaime Martin to return following successful debuts in 2019, among other leading conductors and soloists

Conductors Alexander Shelley and Jaime Martín will return to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 11-13 April and 4-7 November respectively. Both conductors’ debut performances with the Orchestra in 2019 were met with strong praise. In 2020, Shelley will conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, repertoire that he is renowned for, and Martín will lead the Sydney Symphony in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.6.

The son of two celebrated concert pianists, Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara, Alexander Shelley studied cello before pursuing a career as a conductor. At age 25, he won the Leeds Conductors Competition. From 2009-2017 he was the Chief Conductor of the Nürnberger Symphoniker in Germany and is currently the Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Principal Associate Conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recently appointed Principal Conductor of Ireland’s RTE National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Spanish conductor and flautist Jaime Martín collaborates with orchestras worldwide. His debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 2019 was met with wide acclaim.

Ukranian conductor Kirill Karabits will return to lead the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms Symphony No.2, joined by pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 (15-18 April).

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s International Pianists in Recital series will continue, featuring returning pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja (23 March), Jonathan Biss (18 May), Cédric Tiberghien (14 September), and in her debut, 17-year-old American-born pianist Lauren Zhang (26 October), winner of the 2018 BBC Young Musician award.

The Sydney Symphony Presents series, performances that feature the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing scores live and in real-time as film-favourites play out on big screen, will continue. More details will be revealed in early 2020.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra spotlights the brilliance of its own musicians In 2020, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will highlight the virtuosity of its own musicians.

Principal Cello Umberto Clerici will step into the role of conductor, leading his fellow musicians for the second-year in a row, as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra embarks on its 2020 Regional Tour. Concertmaster Andrew Haveron will perform Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 as soloist on the tour.

Principal Trumpet David Elton will perform Haydn’s rarely-programmed Trumpet Concerto in a one-night-only event on 24 April at the Sydney Town Hall.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Cocktail Hour series will continue, featuring members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performing a diverse range of chamber works in the intimate Sydney Opera House Utzon Room overlooking Sydney Harbour.

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra offers audiences new ways to experience music with new concert series and formatsNew Sydney Symphony Hour series offers audiences new opportunities to experience major symphonic works in the heart of the Sydney CBD

Across five separate programs throughout the year, audiences will have the opportunity to experience major works of the symphonic repertoire with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as part of the new Symphony Hour series.

Starting at 7.00pm, the hour-long programs will allow concertgoers to hear landmark works in a shortened concert format at the Sydney Town Hall with leading international conductors, priced at a flat rate of AUD $49 per ticket.

Conductor Pietari Inkinen will conduct Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (19 and 20 February). The Sydney Symphony Orchestra gave the Australian debut of The Right of Spring in 1946. Alexander Shelley will lead the orchestra as they perform Debussy’s Prélude a l’après d’un faune and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (11 and 12 March), Alexander Briger will conduct Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 (22 and 23 April), conductor Simone Young will give her interpretation of Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 (9 and 10 September), and Donald Runnicles will lead a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No.4 (11 November).

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra presents new Classics in the City series featuring works rarely programmed on the mainstage

The newly created Classics in the City series builds upon expands on the successful Mozart in the City at the City Recital Hall. The concerts will intimately explore works beyond Mozart from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic period that are rarely programmed on the mainstage.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Family Series finds new home at Chatswood Concourse

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Family Series, concert programs designed to engage and nurture young minds in music, will be performed at Chatswood Concourse in 2020.

On Sunday 5 July, children and adults alike will be entertained as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev’s enduring musical fairytale Peter and the Wolf, led by Principal Viola Roger Benedict who will step into the role of conductor. Australian personality James Valentine will join the orchestra, introducing the young audience to musical instruments of the orchestra.

Principal Cello Umberto Clerici will take up the role of conductor in the second of the family concerts as the Orchestra performs Patterson’s Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood. The performance will be presented by Australian personality, Wendy Harmer (11 October).

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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra expands its regional performance tour, offering more communities the opportunity to experience live symphonic music The Sydney Symphony Orchestra expands its annual Regional Tour

In 2020, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will expand its Regional New South Wales tour schedule in 2020, allowing more audiences in regional communities the opportunity to experience live symphonic music.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s annual regional tour stretches almost as far back as its founding. On the first Regional Tour in 1938, Australia’s premier orchestra performed in Wollongong, Katoomba, Orange and Bathurst to celebrate the 150th anniversary of New South Wales.

The 2020 Regional Tour will see Principal Cello Umberto Clerici reprise his 2019 role of conductor. He will be joined by Concertmaster Andrew Haveron, who will assume the role of soloist performing the beloved Bruch Violin Concerto No.1.

In addition to eight public concerts, the 2020 Regional Tour will include a series of schools performance, allowing students in each location to be inspired by live orchestral music.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra continues its search for its next Chief ConductorFollowing the conclusion of David Robertson’s much-lauded tenure as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the end of 2019, an extensive global search for his successor is being conducted.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra intends to announce a new appointment to coincide with its return to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in 2022. Launched in 2019, the multi-year artistic projects of the four visionary conductors, Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles and Simone Young, will continue to influence the Orchestra’s major artistic projects and programming throughout 2020 and 2021.

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2020 Season Highlights – Sydney Symphony Orchestra at a Glance

9 SPECIAL EVENTS

CONCERT DATE PROGRAM ARTISTS

A NIGHT AT THE SPEAKEASY

05 – 08 FEBRUARY GERSHWIN Cuban OvertureMARQUEZ Danzón No.2BERNSTEIN West Side Story – Mambo

Guy Noble Imogen KellyAli McGregor

ITALIAN OPERA GALA 25 – 28 MARCH ROSSINI The Barber of SevilleDONIZETTI The Elixir of LoveBELLINI The Capulets and the MontaguesPUCCINI La BohèmeVERDI RigolettoMOZART The Marriage of Figaro

Donald Runnicles Siobhan Stagg Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Samuel Sakker Derek Welton

LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS

30 APRIL; 01, 02 MAY

WOOD Fantasia on British Sea SongsPARRY/ELGAR JerusalemELGAR Pomp and Circumstance March No.1

Guy NobleTeddy Tahu RhodesSydney Philharmonia Choirs

BRAHMS A GERMAN REQUIEM

16 – 18 JULY BRAHMS A German Requiem David RobertsonCleo Lee-McGowanMichael HoneymanSydney Philharmonia Choirs

A GLOBAL ODE TO JOY: THE BEETHOVEN 9 PROJECT

7 – 9 AUGUST BEETHOVEN Symphony No.9 Marin Alsop

A VIENNESE GALA 05 – 07 SEPTEMBER J. STRAUSS Jr On the Beautiful Blue DanubeJ. STRAUSS Sr Radetsky MarchR. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier – Waltz sequenceHEUBERGER The Opera Ball – Overture

Simone Young

THE COMPLETE BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS

23 – 24 OCTOBER BACH Brandenburg Concertos Erin Helyard

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF PERFORMS BRAHMS

19 – 21 NOVEMBER BRAHMS Violin ConcertoSTRAUSS Ein Heldenleben

Donald RunniclesChristian Tetzlaff

CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF PERFORMS BACH

22 NOVEMBER BACH Sonatas and Partitas Christian Tetzlaff

5 CONDUCTOR DEBUTS

NAME CONCERT DATE

PIETARI INKINEN Symphony Hour: The Rite of Spring 19 – 20 FEBRUARY

JUN MÄRKL Debussy and Ravel: The Great Impressionists 26 – 29 FEBRUARY

DAVID STERN Handel and Telemann: Fountains and Fireworks 1 – 2 APRIL

BENJAMIN BAYL Rebel, Gabrieli and Vivaldi: The Italian Baroque 10 – 11 JUNE

FABIEN GABEL Dvořák Cello Concerto with Daniel Müller-Schott 23 – 26 SEPTEMBER

11 ARTIST DEBUTS

ALEXANDRA DARIESCU (PIANO) Debussy and Ravel: The Great Impressionists Ravel Piano Concerto in G

26 – 29 FEBRUARY

DEREK WELTON (BASS) Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

SAMUEL SAKKER (TENOR) Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

VASILISA BERZHANSKAYA (MEZZO-SOPRANO)

Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

ELISABETH LEONSKAJA (PIANO) Elisabeth Leonskaja in Recital: The Late Beethoven Sonatas 23 MARCH

AKIKO SUWANAI (VIOLIN) Northern Lights Festival – Sibelius Violin Concerto 27 – 30 MAY

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JAMES VALENTINE (PRESENTER) A Sydney Symphony Family Event: Peter and the Wolf 5 JULY

AUGUSTIN HADELICH (VIOLIN) Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich 8 – 11 JULY

HENNING KRAGGERUD (VIOLIN-DIRECTOR) Mozart and Beethoven: Drama and Romance 19 – 20 AUGUST

ERIN HELYARD (HARPSICHORD-DIRECTOR) The Complete Brandenburg Concertos 23 – 24 OCTOBER

LAUREN ZHANG (PIANO) Lauren Zhang in Recital: The Young Virtuoso 26 OCTOBER

RETURNING CONDUCTORS AND ARTISTS

ALEXANDER SHELLEY Scheherazade: Hypnotic and Sublime 11 – 13 MARCH

JAIME MARTÍN Mozart and Tchaikovsky: Eloquence and Splendour 4 – 7 NOVEMBER

KIRILL KARABITS Beethoven and Brahms: Towering Romantics 15 – 18 APRIL

23 AUSTRALIAN ARTIST AND CONDUCTORS

ALEXANDER BRIGER (CONDUCTOR) Shostakovich Symphony No.5 22 – 23 APRIL

ALEXANDER GAVRYLUK (PIANO) Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2: Romance and Fairy Tales

14 – 17 OCTOBER

ALI MCGREGOR (SOPRANO) A Night at the Speakeasy: The 1950s Latin Lounge 2 – 8 FEBRUARY

ANDREW HAVERON (VIOLIN-DIRECTOR) Tchaikovsky and Elgar: A Serenade for Strings 7, 8, 16 OCTOBER

BENJAMIN BAYL (CONDUCTOR) Rebel, Gabrieli and Vivaldi: The Italian Baroque 10 – 11 JUNE

CLEO LEE-MCGOWAN (SOPRANO) Brahms A German Requiem: An Ode to Humanity 16 – 18 JULY

DAVID DRURY (ORGAN) Triumphant Brass: Brass Musicians of the Sydney Symphony 29 MAY

DAVID ELTON (TRUMPET) Dvořák, Haydn and Shostakovich: Bold Souls, Bold Sounds 24 APRIL

DEREK WELTON (BASS) Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

ERIN HELYARD (HARPSICHORD-DIRECTOR) The Complete Brandenburg Concertos 23 – 26 SEPTEMBER

GUY NOBLE (CONDUCTOR) Last Night of the Proms: The Tradition Continues

IMOGEN KELLY (BURLESQUE ARTIST) A Night at the Speakeasy: The 1950s Latin Lounge

JACQUELINE PORTER (SOPRANO Mahler Symphony No.4: The Heavenly Life Donald Runnicles conducts Mahler: Music of Inspiration

11 NOVEMBER13 – 14 NOVEMBER

JAMES VALENTINE (PRESENTER) A Sydney Symphony Family Event: Peter and the Wolf 23 – 26 SEPTEMBER

LOUISE JOHNSON (HARP) Tchaikovsky and Elgar: A Serenade for Strings

MICHAEL HONEYMAN (BARITONE) Brahms A German Requiem: An Ode to Humanity

ROGER BENEDICT (CONDUCTOR) A Sydney Symphony Family Event: Peter and the Wolf

SAMUEL SAKKER (TENOR) Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

SIMONE YOUNG (CONDUCTOR) Simone Young conducts Beethoven Symphony No.7A Viennese Gala: Conducted by Simone Young

29 – 31 JULY; 1 AUGUST5 – 7 SEPTEMBER

SIOBHAN STAGG (SOPRANO) Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

ROGER BENEDICT (CONDUCTOR) A Sydney Symphony Family Event: Peter and the Wolf 5 JULY

SAMUEL SAKKER (TENOR) Beethoven Missa Solemnis: Music of Inspiration Italian Opera Gala: Stars of the European Opera

18 – 21 MARCH25 – 28 MARCH

UMBERTO CLERICI (CONDUCTOR) Regional NSW Tour – A Sydney Symphony Family Event: Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood

11 OCTOBER

WENDY HARMER (PRESENTER) A Sydney Symphony Family Event: Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood

11 OCTOBER

NEW PROGRAMS AND CONCERT SERIES

SYMPHONY HOUR – Hour-long programs featuring landmark works at the Sydney Town Hall with leading international conductorsCLASSICS IN THE CITY – Intimately explores works from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periodFAMILY SERIES – Performed at Chatswood Concourse in 2020