If you composed a soundtrack to your life, filled with brief momentous occasions how would it generally sound? A happy-go-lucky ditty like that of Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel? Or perhaps something more magnificent like Mussorgsky’s A Night on a Bald Mountain? A Moment in Time explores some of life’s defining moments with a particularly poignant program from Southern Cross Soloists’ dynamic Director Tania Frazer as we reflect and still feel the impact of the last few years of COVID chaos.

Southern Cross Soloists perform its A Moment in Time concert, June 2022. Photo © Darren Thomas Photography.

Unfortunately, the Southern Cross Soloists program and performers are still not immune from the chaos with more musicians incapacitated by COVID. Whilst we can celebrate the return of clarinettist Ashley Smith from his two-year confinement in Western Australia and French horn player Nick Mooney from his London auditions with the London Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestras, there were some urgent last-minute substitutions.

Alan Smith was replaced by the dynamic Kiwi violinist Amalia Hall, and guest artist Julia Janiszewski was...