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The Live at the Great series continues featuring one of Australia’s foremost violinists and a didgeridoo player.
Kristian Winther
Eight Seasons is the third of five concerts being held throughout 2023 at Sydney’s Great Synagogue in Elizabeth Street.
- Hear Vivaldi’s Four Seasons like you’ve never heard them before – presented in a fresh way, as if nature herself was out on the town!
- Be transported through dreamtime storytelling and the Australian seasons by an Aboriginal elder accompanied by traditional song man Gumaroy Newman playing the yidaki (didgeridoo)
- Revel in the exotic Latin seasons from Argentina’s rebel composer Piazzolla, as the ensemble leads you on a musical vacay
Powerhouse violinist Kristian Winther leads the battle with his hotshot octet and harpsichordist Anthony Hamad in a collision of wildly contrasting seasons. Who will take the prize?
Kristian Winther has appeared as a soloist with most of Australia’s symphony orchestras, and as Concertmaster of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He is one of the most virtuosic and engaging violinists in Australia.
The Great Synagogue, 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney 2000
Tickets are on sale now, visit https: 8seasons.eventbrite.com.au
Behind Live at the Great is the renowned conductor and pianist Vladimir Fanshil. He and his wife, opera singer Eleanor Lyons, are a dynamic musical couple who fought to keep music ‘live’ through the Covid pandemic, eschewing the move to virtual and online performances. They founded Live at Yours which offered intimate concerts in keeping with the Covid restrictions of the time and have since expanded to work with other new and unusual venues.