Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is one of the world’s leading period sound ensembles. Photo: Snow Concert Hall.
The Snow Concert Hall at Canberra Grammar School will host the first Australian appearance by the legendary Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, alongside acclaimed Australian-born pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, this Saturday (29 March) in a night of Mozart and Bach.
The Orchestra will open with J C Bach’s Symphony No. 6 and then treat the audience to a string of Mozart’s greatest hits.
It will present two of Mozart’s most celebrated concertos – the groundbreaking Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major, ‘Jeunehomme’ with Bezuidenhout as soloist, and the innovative Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, featuring the Orchestra’s long time and celebrated leader, Gottfried von der Goltz, before closing with one of Mozart’s most popular and often-performed symphonies, the great Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
The performance this Saturday continues the Snow Concert Hall’s record of bringing world-class artists to Canberra.
Now in its third season, Snow Concert Hall has been committed to bringing the very best artists from Australia and around the world directly to audiences in Canberra.
Snow Concert Hall Artistic Director Ana de la Vega said the dream had always been to nurture the national capital as a hub for classical music.
“I’m thrilled that, after two years of delivering on the promise of bringing top artists from all over the world to Canberra, we’re continuing to do so in 2025,” she said.
“They say that all good things come in threes. I still pinch myself when I think about the opportunity I’ve been given to guard and lead this hall and to look down the barrel of a third concert season like this one makes me incredibly proud.”
Australian-born international classical pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. Photo: Marco Borggreve.
Ms de la Vega said that from a performer’s perspective experiencing the Snow Concert Hall’s outstanding acoustic was a wonderful feeling.
For more than three decades, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra has been one of the world’s leading period sound ensembles, performing over 100 concerts a year at home and abroad and making over 130 recordings.
Passion, joy of playing, and authenticity are its musical cornerstones.
Bezuidenhout is one of today’s most notable and exciting keyboard artists, equally at home on the fortepiano, harpsichord and modern piano.
He’s an Artistic Director of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Principal Guest Director with the English Concert.
He is also a regular guest with leading ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester.
Also coming to the Snow Concert Hall in 2025 are British classical pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, British violinist Anthony Marwood with Scottish classical accordion phenomenon James Crabb, German a cappella ensemble Sjaella, and Ms de la Vega herself, an international flute soloist.
To learn more and buy tickets, visit the Snow Concert Hall website.
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