The Blackheath Chamber Music Festival 23 BAROQUE & BEYOND’
was held at Phillips Hall, Blackheath from
21st - 23rd April 2023,
featuring 41 premier Australian musicians in 9 marvellous performances.

Highlights from the 2023 Blackheath Chamber Music Festival. Images by Keith Saunders

2023 Artists

Riley Lee & Satsuki Odamura |  Kozu Yoshiyuki ~ Traditional (circa 17th Century) ~ Tadao Sawai ~ Katsutoshi Nagasawa ~ Hildegard of Bingen ~ Koto Minazaki ~ Hideaki Kuribayashi

John Bell & Simon Tedeschi |  ‘WITH LOVE, AMADEUS’ 

Orava Quartet with Slava Grigoryan |  J. S. Bach ~ Manuel Canales ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~ Luigi Boccherini w/Slava Grigoryan

Benjamin Kopp with Symphony Winds |  Ludwig van Beethoven ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Marais Project | ‘BAROQUE & BEYOND’: Henry Purcell ~ Michael Nyman ~ Anon ~ Marin Marais ~ Isaac Nathan ~ Poems by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, The Aboriginal Father ~ Alice Chance ~ Carl Vine ~ George Frideric Handel ~ Girolamo Frescobaldi ~ Claudio Monteverdi ~ Alessandro Piccinini

Slava & Sharon Grigoryan |  J. S Bach ~ Sergio Assad ~ Maurice Ravel ~ Enrique Granados ~ Anne Cawrse ~ Mario Laginha ~ Nigel Westlake w/Leonard Grigoryan ~ Astor Piazzolla w/Leonard Grigoryan ~ Mark Summer

The Grigoryan Brothers |  J. S Bach ~ George Frideric Handel ~ Leo Brouwer ~ Radames Gnattali ~ Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, excerpts from ‘THIS IS US’

Diana Doherty with Streeton Trio & Ensemble |  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~ Maurice Ravel ~ Nigel Westlake, ‘SPIRIT OF THE WILD’

Christopher Richardson with String Quartet  |  Justin Williams, ‘Three Pieces for String Quartet and Voice’ [world premiere]

Christopher Richardson with Simon Tedeschi |  Gerald Finzi ~ Calvin Bowman

Schubert Octet |  Franz Schubert, Octet in F Major