COMMUNITY-LED EVENT: Hunters Hill Music presents Swirl, Swoop & Dance

Next date: Sunday, 04 May 2025 | 02:30 PM to 04:30 PM

The second event in the 2025 Hunters Hill Music concert series for 2025 will take place on Sunday 4 May in the Hunters Hill Town Hall.

Swirl, Swoop and Dance is a fantastic opportunity to listen to a live classical music performance in the local community.

The concert features ACO cellist Julian Thompson; former ACO violinist Glenn Christensen; SSO principal players and former Tinalley String Quartet members Justin Williams and Lerida Delbridge; and Penny Quartet cellist Jack Ward.

The exuberant program featuring three short works for string quartet by young Australian composers Harry Sdraulig, Holly Harrison and Joseph Twist, as well as Schubert’s masterpiece, his String Quintet written shortly before his death, aged 31.

Harrison, Sdraulig and Twists’s works are inventive, evocative and arresting, with chromatic twists and turns and pulsating rhythmic impetus. Schubert’s Quintet, distinctive for its scoring of two cellos, is a work of extraordinary melodic expression and inventiveness; with the second cello adding a depth of tonality and sonority. Imbued with dance-like gypsy rhythms, the Quintet remains a defining work in the chamber music repertory.

Hunters Hill Music Society has presented chamber music concerts in the municipality of Hunters Hill for over 80 years, with records showing events occurring under the banner of Hunters Hill Music in 1938. Hunters Hill Music was officially established in 1944 under the guidance of Dr Mackerness.