Caesura Ensemble presents our biggest project yet with a 35-piece chamber orchestra - Detached: featuring musical narratives of separation, and yet, the joy that can come from such experiences.

Programme:

it's too late for this* - Lucy Blomfield (2025)

Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63 - Sergei Prokofiev (1935)

Symphony No.38 in D Major 'Prague', K.504 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787)

*World Premiere

Conductor: Tim Doubinski

Violin: Beatrice Colombis

The concert starts with a world premiere from rising young Sydney composer, Lucy Blomfield with it’s too late for this. Lucy Blomfield is a Sydney-based composer, performer and educator working on Wallumedegal and Gadigal land, passionate about contributing to and promoting the contemporary Australian music scene. Lucy is a PhD candidate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (USYD), where she also completed her Bachelor of Composition (Honours) in 2023 studying under Australian composers such as Paul Stanhope, Damien Ricketson and Liza Lim. Lucy was recently the winner of the Channon Memorial Prize for a composition for choir and organ, as well as the winner of the Annual Sydney Conservatorium Orchestral Composition Reading in 2023. In 2024/2025, she has been commissioned and had premieres by ensembles including Divisi Chamber Ensemble, St Stephen’s Pitt Street Uniting Church, and Trinity College Choir.

it's too late for this weaves its way between brooding sections and whimsical rhythms. Caesura Ensemble can't wait to showcase this as our thrilling concert opener, the commission fee supported by the City of Sydney.

Caesura Ensemble then welcomes accomplished young violinist, Beatrice Colombis to perform Sergei Prokofiev’s second violin concerto in G minor. In 2024, Beatrice was a semi-finalist in the Max Rostal International Violin Competition in Germany and a finalist in the Tokyo Classic Violin Competition in Japan. She has also been a prize winner in several Australian competitions, most notably the 1st and audience prizes at the Kendall National Violin Competition (2023). After winning the Sydney Conservatorium String Concerto Competition, Beatrice performed Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra in 2023.

Prokofiev himself said the second violin concerto is a portrait of “nomadic concert-tour life,” having worked on it in Paris, Baku, and Voronezh. Prokofiev equally reminisces on home with the folk-tinged melody that opens the work and revels in his travels with the ever-changing musical landscapes of the concerto with colours such as the Spanish-flavoured flair of the third movement.

To close the concert, we present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s divine 38th Symphony in D major, nicknamed ‘Prague’. Despite Mozart being synonymous with Vienna, his music, notably operas such as The Marriage of Figaro, consistently received praise in Prague. Symphony No.38 premiered in Prague before Vienna, and many of its characteristics including the exposed and colourful usage of the woodwind section, and the unconventional three-movement structure, suggest this work was written to the taste of Prague audiences.

Join us for an evening of thrilling orchestral music at beautiful Machine Hall in Sydney CBD. Feel the intensity and joy of classical music in an atypically intimate space at affordable pricing for all. Caesura Ensemble’s ultimate mission is to contribute to the pursuit of keeping classical music culturally relevant and accessible.

This concert has been made possible with the support of the City of Sydney and the Talent Development Project.

Poster Design © Lauren McMeiken 2025