Hayes Street Studio presents acclaimed musicians, violinist Anna da Silva Chen and cellist James Morley in a virtuosic duo program. The pair have established themselves as leading chamber musicians of their generation, both in Australia and on international stages. Join the duo for an electric program of chamber music featuring iconic works by Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály and French mastermind Maurice Ravel, and stretch your imagination with the creative bursts of contemporary legends composers Michael Jarrell and Iannis Xenakis.
Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present international jazz duo Guitar Club, Pouya Abdi and Danica Hobden, in a 50 minute set of original music featuring Australian saxophonist Hinano Fujisaki. With mutual interest in original compositions and great curiosity for sound aesthetics, the ensemble explores their unique instrumentation, while honouring the drive of a rhythm section with multiple voices and melodies. In 2025, Guitar Club embarks on an Australian tour featuring saxophonist Hinano Fujisaki (AUS), who was recently awarded the Judy Bailey Composition Award for 2024, and is an active member of the Australian jazz community as a band leader and side person.
Hayes Street Studio co-director and pianist Lee Dionne presents a virtuosic, eclectic program that evades and captivates. Our composers appear at their most chameleon-esque, a masquerade of fanciful homage. From Bernstein to Bach and with several Sydney premieres, this all-rounder program both entertains and delights.
About the Artist:
Described as “impressive” (NYTimes), “impeccable” (Fanfare Magazine), and “entrancing” (BBC Music Magazine), pianist Lee Dionne leads a varied, international career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, artistic director, and arranger.
He has performed numerous solo and chamber debut recitals in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Jordan Hall, Merkin Hall, Spivey Hall, and the Philharmonic in Bratislava. Since moving to Sydney in 2023, he has performed and partnered with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Piano Plus, Musica Viva, and the Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Hayes Street Studio presents Vol. 10 of its iconic YOLO Solos Series, featuring violinist Beatrice Colombis and cross-cultural flautist Chloe Chung. YOLO (you only live once!) shows offer listeners a rapid burst of virtuosity from exceptional and diverse artists around Australia.
About the Artists:
Beatrice Colombis is an award winning Italian-Australian violinist who was selected as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in 2023 and 2024.
Chloe Chung is an innovative cross-cultural flautist, playing Western classical flute and dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), teaching music, and collaborating with others to foster unexpected musical forms and connections throughout Sydney.
The program is rounded out with a set from pianist Lee Dionne.
Hayes Street Studio presents a dynamic recital featuring co-directors flautist Rosie Gallagher and pianist Lee Dionne. The duo explores a diverse program of music spanning from the hills of Ireland to tall ships on the Atlantic, traveling around the world and through time, exploring the flute as an instrument with the ability to dance, sing, yearn and tell stories. The program begins with a new composition by New Zealand born composer Salina Fisher, then moves to a fresh imagining of the iconic J.S Bach Flute Partita, arranged by Rosie for flute and electronics. The listener is then taken to the picturesque world of traditional Irish wanderings before a dramatic shift to the Australian premiere of Belinda Reynolds’ emotionally stirring work Share. This provides the perfect set up to the final work on the program: Valerie Coleman’s deep and dramatic tone poem for flute and piano depicting the Middle Passage in which Africans were trafficked across the Atlantic by tall ships to be sold into slavery.
Hayes Street Studio is thrilled to present acclaimed concert pianist Konstantin Shamray in an intimate recital.
Described as an exhilarating performer with faultless technique and fearless command of the piano, Russian-Australian concert pianist Konstantin Shamray performs at an international level with the world’s leading orchestras and concert presenters. In Australia, his performance highlights have included engagements with the Adelaide, Queensland, West Australia, Tasmanian and Sydney Symphony orchestras, as well as tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and ANAM Orchestra. Outside of Australia, he has performed with the Russian National Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Philharmonic amongst many others. He has enjoyed collaborating with distinguished conductors such as Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Spivakov, Dmitry Liss, Tugan Sokhiev and Nicholas Milton.
