Season Preview: Your guide to the arts in 2021

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has announced its 2021 NSW Season ahead of a Melbourne Season announcement expected in January of next year.

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Circa in last year’s English Baroque concert. All photos supplied

A series of six live concerts, several of which play Parramatta as well as Sydney’s City Recital Hall, includes the orchestra’s latest collaboration with Circa Contemporary Circus as well as a mix of international and Australian-based soloists. Building on the technology developed during COVID-enforced lockdowns, each mainstage concert will be filmed and broadcast on their new digital platform Brandenburg One allowing their work to be seen not just across Australia on demand but potentially internationally as well.

“I’ve missed the electricity and anticipation of live performance over the past year,” Co-Founder and Artistic Director Paul Dyer said in the company’s press release where he expressed special pleasure that audiences would have a chance to hear international artists in a time of limited international travel. “Musicians get our buzz and energy from each another and from our audiences. We share their...