tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191423882011-07-31T14:50:04.563+10:00Australian Classical Era OrchestraTHE <b>AUSTRALIAN CLASSICAL ERA ORCHESTRA</b> EXISTS TO BRING THE VALUES OF THE CLASSICAL ERA TO LIFE IN AUSTRALIA THROUGH MUSIC. THROUGH COLLABORATION WITH PASSIONATE YOUNG AUSTRALIAN MUSICIANS, IT AIMS TO CHARGE THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF AUSTRALIAN AUDIENCES WITH THE SAME CLARITY OF VISION THAT ACTUALLY BROUGHT ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT.Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-14461103641795742102009-11-06T23:49:00.004+11:002009-11-07T13:07:31.419+11:00Fire & PassionExperience the Enlightenment through Mozart, Haydn & Gluck
PERTH 23 JANUARY | BUNBURY 24 JANUARY | BRIDGETOWN 25 JANUARY
Optimism! Discovery! The need for new frontiers! Australia is a living result of the ideas of the Enlightenment. To experience it today, you need to feel the full force of its music. Beginning with Mozart, Haydn and Gluck.
This summer, the Australian Classical Era Orchestra Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-10459996090547784872009-01-19T13:46:00.003+11:002009-01-23T13:52:42.599+11:00Review: Fine tribute to HaydnAustralian Classical Era Orchestra Government House Ballroom, January 15, review by William YeomanThis year sees the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn and to celebrate the occasion the Australian Classical Era Orchestra, which specialises in historically informed performances, presented two of Haydn’s orchestral masterworks, together with a selection of arias from the operas of his Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-24782324386600045582009-01-05T21:47:00.004+11:002009-01-05T22:12:44.900+11:00Mozart & The Joker — Program Notes SnapshotI compare Mozart’s compositions to a gold snuffbox, manufactured in Paris, and Haydn’s to one finished off in London– Emperor Joseph II, Vienna, Spring 1786This program is a celebration of the originality, wit and good humour of one of the Classical Era’s most sentinel figures, Franz Joseph Haydn, and 2009 marks two hundred years since his death at the end of May 1809, in the Viennese suburb of Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-82858314211700702092008-11-15T15:42:00.008+11:002009-11-07T00:16:44.343+11:00Mozart & The JokerAudiences will again be thrilled with the wonderful presence and voice of London-based, Perth-born Kathryn McCusker (soprano) treating them to 4 arias from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the Marriage of Figaro, The Shepherd King & the Abduction from the Seraglio.To mark the bicentenary of the death of Franz Joseph Haydn, well known violinist, Paul Wright will add sparkle to each concert with his Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-13005796776693848192008-05-14T15:41:00.000+10:002008-11-16T16:43:59.779+11:00News Update from the Artistic DirectorAfter further success with concerts in Perth and Margaret River in January 2008, planning is well underway for a fabulous “Mozart & The Joker” 3 concert season in January 2009.Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-5865588200950747522007-01-23T23:12:00.000+11:002008-12-11T08:30:37.163+11:00That's us !Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-1169030598603951042007-01-17T21:41:00.002+11:002008-11-16T15:41:30.012+11:00News Update from the DirectorPlanning is in the initial stages for a fabulous return season in Perth and Margaret River, Western Australia, in January 2008.Audiences will again be thrilled with the wonderful presence and voice of London-based, Perth-born Kathryn McCusker (soprano) treating us to Leonore’s Recitative & Aria from Beethoven’s Fidelio, as well as Beethoven’s Aria Ah! perfido for Soprano & Orchestra.Excitingly,Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-1140518933504393662006-01-10T21:30:00.000+11:002007-01-18T12:39:48.694+11:00Start of an old eraFirst published in The West Australian; 10 January 10 2006; Page 69Review by William YeomanPicture by Ken MaleyWhat a wonderful idea - to celebrate 250 years since the birth of Mozart by performing this glorious music on instruments of Mozart's time and in a way he surely would have recognised.Of course, using winds with narrower bores and fewer keys or bowed instruments with gut strings doesn't Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-1135053832010314902005-12-20T15:42:00.000+11:002007-01-18T12:41:53.138+11:00Expats home in on HIP noteWritten by RON BANKSBack in Perth to perform at Winthrop Hall — Nichola Boud, Paul Wright, Kathryn McCusker, Kate Walpole and Shaun Lee-Chen. Christmas always seems to draw home those young musicians who are pursuing their careers with orchestras, chamber ensembles and academies across Europe. Coming home is a time for family celebrations, but also the time to put into practice those talents Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-1132480976186571502005-11-20T20:52:00.000+11:002007-01-18T12:44:06.731+11:00WA Mozart's 250th BirthdayWestern Australia celebrates WA Mozart’s 250th Birthday !Two concerts in celebration of WA Mozart’s 250th Birthday - with opera favourites arranged by Tim Blomfield for soprano with classical flute, classical clarinet, classical bassoon, two classical violins, classical viola, & classical cello.Players include:Kathryn McCusker — sopranoGeorgia Browne — fluteNicola Boud — clarinetKate Walpole — Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-51959196499838553782005-11-20T15:02:00.004+11:002008-11-16T15:08:13.923+11:00The Australian Classical Era Orchestra’s Artistic InspirationThe ideas that created the Western Australia we know today all came out of the Classical Era. The years between 1740 and the mid-1800s sang about the urge to discover, the power of optimism, the belief in human dignity — regardless of race or culture.At all of her brightest moments of progress, on the days when Western Australia has been at her best, these values have been front of mind. And theyTim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19142388.post-1132659885956883722005-11-20T10:26:00.000+11:002008-11-16T15:40:40.489+11:00About the Australian Classical OrchestraWhat is the Australian Classical Era Orchestra?The Australian Classical Era Orchestra performs music of the Classical Era (ca.1740-1830) on historic instruments and their replicas, bringing the freshness and diversity of the New World to Old World music and music-making techniques.Why Western Australia?Perth is home to a critical mass of musicians who make up the Australian Classical Era Tim Blomfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961606224563095987noreply@blogger.com0