26th April 2024
​St. Stephen's Uniting Church
​feat. Jonathan Bruhl on 2nd Violin
CONNECTIONS
Our first solo program, designed to facilitate connection and fundraising for Black Dog Institute. A concert sharing our stories through music and sitting with the many emotions of the human experience.
​Program
Sonderho Bridal Trilogy Part II - (arr. Danish String Quartet)
Melody. of the Developing Mind - Jackson Cowper
Aloe Vera (Sundried String Quartet Mov 3) - Alice Chance
Something About the Ocean Mov 1 - Caitlin Sandiford
The Way that We See - Monique Clare arr. Sarah Qiu
Magpahinga - Ben&Ben arr. Karen Cortez
How to Train Your Dragon suite - arr. Karen Cortez
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Under the night sky, we played selections from our COSMOS program, alongside speakers Karlie Noon, Dr Sarah Reeves and Nate Byrne.
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Program
Nebulae - Diego Idarraga Duarte
Black Hole - Keyna Wilkins
ALAN (Artificial Light at Night) - Karen Cortez and Connor Malanos
16th August 2023​
Sydney Observatory
Sydney Observatory Late: Sky Connections
13th May 2023​
Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre​​
COSMOS:
Beyond and Within
A collaborative new music concert with Keyna Wilkins and Diego Idarraga Duarte, taking the audience on a journey through the cosmos.
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Program
Nebulae - Diego Idarraga Duarte
Black Hole - Keyna Wilkins
The Elements: Earth - David Tocknell
ALAN (Artificial Light at Night) - Karen Cortez and Connor Malanos
Renewal: Hope from Embers - Caitlin Sandiford
We supported the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir for a concert of love songs arranged for choir, string quartet and band. ​
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Our cellist Karen Cortez also premiered SGLC's commissioned work, Tiny Love Stories by Ben van Tienen for choir, piano and cello. The piece was a multi-movement work, about different types of love as experienced by SGLC choristers.
Program
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
Only Love Can Hurt Like This - Paloma Faith
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
The Heart of the Matter - Don Henley
I Feel Love - Bronski Beat / Donna Summer
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Ready for Love - India Arie
Sing Gently - Eric Whitacre
All By Myself - Celine Dion
SGLC's
Tiny Love Stories
22nd October, 2022
Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Women in Music
9th June 2021
The Women's Club, Sydney
We put together a 45 minute set of music by living, female Australian composers as a part of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music's "Women in Music" series.
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Program
Warmala — Kardajala Kirridarra, arr. Sarah Qiu and Karen Cortez
Titan Tango — Keyna Wilkins
Into the Dragon's Den — Gabrielle Cadenhead
Something about the Ocean — Caitlin Sandiford
Dullahan — Ella Graydon
Vermont Crescent — Agnes Lee
Aloe Vera from Sundried: string quartet — Alice Chance
It Works — Monique Clare, arr. collaboratively by Quart-Ed
We toured the South Coast in collaboration with the Sydney Youth Orchestras and the Four Winds Festival, playing at schools and working with the Bega Youth Orchestra!
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Repertoire
Warmala — Kardajala Kirridarra, arr. Sarah Qiu and Karen Cortez
Thunderstruck — ACDC, arr. Sarah Qiu and Karen Cortez
How to Train Your Dragon — John Powell arr. Karen Cortez
Scottish Folk Medley — learnt from Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
SYO x Quart-Ed
South Coast Tour
12th-15th November, 2020
Blaxcell, Tathra, Bermagui, Bega
31st May 2019
St. Stephen's Uniting Church, Sydney
VIVID Festival: Greyscale
87 minutes of music by living, Australian composers! Featuring commissioned works by Liam Mulligan and David Tocknell in collaboration with KonzertProjekt.
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Program
Dancing with strangers (2004) — Paul Stanhope
Warmala — Kardajala Kirridarra, arr. Sarah Qiu and Karen Cortez
Eliza Aria (2004) — Elena Kats-Chernin
Gallipoli (2013) — Ross Edwards
String quartet 1995 — James Humberstone
Hedron — Liam Mulligan (World premiere)
Something about the Ocean — Caitlin Sandiford
Many Shades of Light and Dark — David Tocknell (World premiere)
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