Ironwood is Australia's renowned historically informed performance group crossing the boundaries of old and new. Ironwood plays music of the classical period on early string and keyboard instruments, exploring the sound of chamber music on gut strings. They also have an active commissioning program for music on early instruments. The group has performed widely, including a recent national tour for Musica Viva Australia, performances with the Peninsula Music Festival and recordings for ABC Classics. They are 2010 artists in residence at Bundanon, NSW. Ironwood runs a successful early music educational program with workshops in Victoria and NSW, and for various organisations including MLC School, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide Chamber Players and Wollongong Conservatorium.

NEXT CONCERT:

HOUSE MUSIC
6:45pm, Sunday 17 October 2010
Government House, Sydney

Alice Evans – violin
Julia Fredersdorff – violin
Nicole Forsyth – viola
Daniel Yeadon - cello

The ballroom of Government House is arguably Sydney’s most elegant concert setting. Ironwood presents a vice-regal evening of music for parlour and park: two quartets by Haydn and Onslow based on national anthems, and Mozart’s rollicking quartet ‘The hunt’. Playing on period instruments, Ironwood invites you to share their corner of the music room, as the musicians talk about the music, context and instruments of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and share some of the gems and curiosities of the
classical period.

Haydn – Quartet, op 76 no 3 ‘Kaiserquartett’
Onslow – Quartet, op 9 no 1 ‘God save the King’
Mozart – Quartet in B flat major, K458 ‘The hunt'

Please note - this concert is sold out!

“...fantastic. This ensemble is quite something!”
Canberra Times, March 2009

“This may sound like the name of a rock band, but Ironwood consists of gifted musicians, each of whom are specialists in period performance practice”
The West Australian March 2009

“…obvious enjoyment, fine musicality, in perfect balance...” Australian Stage Online 2009

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