Coming Concerts

SHIPWRECKED

2024 Chamber Series


Is Love a Shipwreck?


For our first concert in our 2024 chamber series, we are kicking off with an all-Canberra cast of players! Countertenor Tobias Cole will be joined by a small band of strings (and harpsichord!) to present stormy vocal works by Baroque composers Ariosti, Vivaldi, Handel, and Hasse.


Of course, we can't let the singers have all the fun! Fans of music without words will also be treated to unusual instrumental gems by Biber, Uccellini, Cazzati, Vilsmayr, and Bononcini!


WHERE: Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, ACT

WHEN: 21st April 2024, 4pm.

Tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/CPTPQ

2024 Early Music Chamber Series

  • "Shipwrecked" (21st April, 4pm), featuring Tobias Cole and a bunch of familiar Canberran string players!
  • "Travel and Change" (9th June, 4pm), featuring Drew Ninnis!
  • "Hammer Tech" (18th August, 4pm), featuring Marie Searles!
  • "Sanguine/Melancholy" (10th November, 4pm ), featuring Ella Bennetts, Anton Baba, and Aaron Reichelt!


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"Oh, what a wonderful concert this evening… thank you for the exquisite music!"


“... devestatingly capable players.”


"Thanks for such a vibrant performance. Loved the dance, the background info, and the banter!"

"...the joy is contagious!"


"...for the music lovers who had come to listen to Apeiron, there was plenty to delight"


"Thank you for a truly FANTASTIC concert!! The dancing was lovely, & the music went from touchingly poignant to hair-raisingly exciting!!"

"...entertaing introductions to works... humourous anecdotes in a friendly and relaxing style."


"...wonderful rhythmic precision... a most enjoyable concert"


"The concert was a real delight... a wonderful mix of energy and lightness and joy."


What is Apeiron?

 

We owe the concept of apeiron(ἀπείρων) to the ancient Greeks. Living so close to the elements, they experienced constant turmoil. Nothing was taken for granted – as states rose and fell, and war was constant, while plagues and natural disasters were frequent visitors.


Yet, like us, they experienced beauty and joy. It told them that no matter how fleeting a moment was, it must contain within it a spark of truth. Something that lasts beyond the flux of the everyday and transcends it. As their philosophers paced the agora, they argued over which elements composed this truth – was it fire? Water? Ideas? Man himself?