Polarity members Eliza Shephard and Alex Waite first crossed paths in 2016 when they both commenced study at the Australian National Academy of Music. A performance on 3MBS FM’s series The Talent brought them musically together. Following this performance, they realised that they rather enjoyed working together, and that they both had a bucket list of repertoire that they wanted to work through, from similar genres, styles and composers. They decided that in 2018 they would tackle one of the largest and most challenging duos for flute and piano “for fun”, Pierre Boulez’s Sonatine, which proved to be an inspiring and pivotal moment in their duo-playing time together. They officially became Polarity in late 2018, selecting the name because it not only displays their polar opposite personalities, but also their enormous selection of repertoire that they love performing. Together, Polarity creates dynamic and intriguing performances of the piano and flute repertoire, and as individual musicians, they have been described as 'fiery' and 'exciting', as well as are known for their engaging and risk-taking approaches to music. 

Program will include music by: André Jolivet, Franz Schubert, Lowell Liebermann, Katia Tiutiunnik, Sergei Prokofiev

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Bannister Room, RCM

Ticket Cost: $27, $17 concession, $10 RCM Student. Tickets available at the door.

Come along to the RCM to hear the 2019 Primary & Partial Scholarship recipients concert.

Students from every instrumental and vocal area will perform a wide range of music from baroque to contemporary. 

Bannister Room, Riverina Conservatorium of Music.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

Enjoy an afternoon of choral music by the RCM Cantilena Singers. Works featured will be Mendelssohn, Faure, Carter, Gritton and more!

Location: St Johns Anglican Church
Date: Sunday, September 15 2019
Time: 2pm
Tickets: $30 adult | $20 concession | $10 under 12

Tickets available at the door.

Musical Director: Marie-Cecile Henderson
Piano Accompanist: Carmel Ryan

International guitarist Derek Gripper has produced some of South Africa’s most extraordinary music with his unique ability to interpret complex compositions played with the Kora — a 21-stringed traditional West African lute for solo guitar. The result is nothing short of extraordinary. Drawing on traditions from European Classical to avant-garde Brazilian works. Gripper fuses these diverse approaches seamlessly and makes them his own.

Joining Derek will be classical guitarists Harold Gretton, Jeff Donovan and Abel Lawson. Performing at the Wagga Wagga Art Gallery this is a must to see for guitar music lovers!

Tickets $27 adults, $17 concession/student, $10 RCM student.

Tickets are available through the RCM Office or can be purchased at the door.

Student compositions and songs entered in the RCM's Composers and Song Writers Competition will be performed at this free concert.

All entries for the competition will be heard and adjudicated on the night and winners will be announced on RCM Scholarship night - Saturday, 28th October 2019

All welcome to come and hear original music written by RCM students as young as 6 and up to 21 years of age.

Auditions for all instruments and voice for 2020 scholarships will be held during the day.

Selected current scholarship holders will perform at the Scholarship Concert that evening at which the 2020 winners will be announced.

The concert & award ceremony commences at 7:30pm in the RCM's Bannister Room.

French composers changed the musical landscape, with a fresh perspective, particularly for woodwind instruments. The music for the clarinet and saxophone composed in the twentieth century by French composers such as Bozza, Poulenc and Dubois radiated precise colour and tone, with hallmarks of wit and eclecticism as well as light and transparent simplicity.

Come on an exciting and bold journey through some of the finest twentieth century French clarinet and saxophone repertoire interspersed with other unique compositions.

Jenny Binovec - clarinet/saxophone and Hamish Tait - piano

Tickets $27 adults, $17 concession/student, $10 RCM student.

Tickets are available through the RCM Office or can be purchased at the door.

Australia’s rising star of the international opera world, tenor Shanul Sharma returns to his hometown to perform an exciting concert of loved operatic arias, Neapolitan songs and plenty of memorable musical moments.

Shanul will be joined by accomplished pianist Helena Kernaghan for this special event.  

Tickets $40 adult, $30 concession/student

Tickets are available through the Wagga Civic Box Office www.civictheatre.com.au  69269688