This year’s recently rebadged Bellingen Fine Music Festival has announced its performing artists for the September 21-24 event, and as always, it’s an impressive array of classical-based talent.
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Now in its 8th year, the festival’s 2017 headline artists include renowned piano duo Elena Kats-Chernin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska.
Widely acknowledged around the world as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary composers, Kats-Chernin has created award-winning works in nearly every genre.
Cislowska is one of Australia’s foremost pianists, and has graced the great concert halls both here and overseas.
Joe Chindamo and Zoë Black are the new kids on the classical block and are routinely described as edgy and a welcome new voice to Australian Chamber music.
The unique combination of Brazilian classical guitarist Murilo Tanouya and saxophonist Nick Ruissoniello has created one of Sydney’s finest emerging classical duos.
Strelitzia is a vibrant young ensemble, originally founded in 2008 as a Piano Trio which went on to win the prestigious Musica Viva Chamber Music Award the following year.
Melbourne’s unique TEK TEK Ensemble performs virtuosic original music inspired by tropical jungles, late night Balkan weddings, 1960s chic, and shamanistic desert rituals.
Acacia Quartet, Michelle Der Kinderen and Leanne Swanson, The Academy, Bellingen Youth Orchestra, Sally Whitwell, jazz trio Panache, and choral groups Akabella, Sohum, and 11th Hour are also performing.
