2025 season of chamber music begins
When Queensland’s favourite violinist Warwick Adeney took his bow alongside local pianist Janet Brewer and clarinettist Sacha Gibbs-McPhee at the first-ever Coastal Cadenzas concert in February last year, locals leapt to their feet in adulation.
After three decades as concertmaster of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Adeney vacated his seat and his phone immediately started buzzing with concert proposals. One such request intrigued him enough to take a holiday with his wife to Noosa, accepting an invitation to perform in a new concert series with nothing but a promise of one-third of the profit, if there was any. The concert was an unprecedented hit with locals, who turned out in huge numbers to hear the trio performing works by Khachaturian, Brahms, and Piazzola.
The event’s success launched Sacha Gibbs-McPhee’s chamber music concert series, which has, in 2025, evolved into Noosa Chamber Music, a perpetual music festival bringing elite musicians from all over Australia to an audience with an appetite for high art and culture. While the Noosa region is home to many thriving community music groups, Gibbs-McPhee lamented that no institution regularly brought together professional musicians of the highest calibre to perform more ambitious programs. “My goal is to produce events that will rival those of any elite festival, but will also be an opportunity for the community to come together and spend a relaxing afternoon enjoying my favourite music with me.”
The 2025 season of Noosa Chamber Music begins at 3 pm on Saturday the 1st of February at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Noosaville, with the return of the Adeney/Brewer/Gibbs-McPhee trio performing a concert titled Duckpins & Fairy-tales which features works by Mozart and Schumann.
A second Sunshine Coast Soirée performance will follow on Sunday the 2nd of February, also at 3 pm, at the C.C.S.A. hall in Caloundra.
• Tickets at the door, or via www.sachagibbsmcphee.com/duckpins-fairytales or sachagibbsmcphee@gmail.com.
