With a list of performers that includes the Grigoryan brothers, Genevieve Lacey, Jane Gower, Massimo Scattolin, Anthony Halliday, Hoang Pham, Giampaolo di Rosa and more, this years Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival promises to deliver a veritable feast of classical and contemporary music.
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The festival opens tomorrow evening at St Patricks Cathedral in Dawson Street with an homage to the late 17th-early 18th Century composer Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Rarely heard in Australia, Rameaus music instantly calls to mind the glorious excess of the last days of the Ancien Regime before the French Revolution.
The recital will be conducted by Dr Gary Ekkel, one of Australias leading students of early classical music, and will feature the Choir of Newman College, Melbourne, which Dr Ekkel established in 2002.
It will also feature soloists singing excerpts from Rameaus work including Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), and a full baroque orchestra using period instruments.
