IN THE MEDIA
Australian Haydn Ensemble, Omega and The Song Company among organisations securing annual state government support.
By Jason Blake, Limelight, 22 Dec 2023
Australian Haydn Ensemble earns its stars and stripes
By Jason Blake, Limelight, 23 Nov 2023
Simon Moore speaks with Laura Vaughan on 2MBS radio
Simon Moore, 2MBS Radio
A new CEO for Australian Haydn Ensemble
by Sounds Like Sydney 4 July 2023
Australian Haydn Ensemble announces new CEO and first international tour
by Maddy Briggs, Limelight Magazine 4 July 2023
Simon Moore in Conversation with David Greco
PODCAST: David Greco speaks about his forthcoming concert with the AHE Die Stille Nacht
by Simon Moore, 2MBS FM, 31 May 2023
Tamara-Anna Cislowska welcomes violinist and Artistic Director of the Australian Haydn Ensemble Skye McIntosh to share an hour of music and conversation at the keyboard.
with Tamara-Anna Cislowska
ABC Classic
Simon Moore in Conversation with Skye McIntosh
PODCAST: Skye speaks with Simon Moore about one of Haydn’s greatest works, The Creation, and talks about her own journey falling in love with period instruments and performance practice which led to the birth of the Australian Haydn Ensemble
by Simon Moore, 2MBS FM, April, 2022
“…the three concerts by the Australia Haydn Ensemble, called collectively Haydn’s Solar Poetics, are at the cutting edge of historically informed performance practice of early music;”
by Nicholas Routley
Australian Stage
Skye McIntosh gives us the time of day ahead of Haydn’s Solar Poetics, their three-concerts-in-a-day extravaganza
by Hugh Robertson
Limelight magazine
The Australian Haydn Ensemble celebrates a decade of performance with the launch of its 10th anniversary season in Mozart:Viennese Star, a program of sparkling chamber works from the years of Mozart’s rise to stardom in 1780s Vienna.
by Sounds Like Sydney
“We have met new audiences from interstate who would otherwise not have known about the the Australian Haydn Ensemble or been able to attend a concert,”
by Tony Magnusson
“The Australian Haydn Ensemble is now in its tenth year. Artistic Director Skye McIntosh notes the inspiration of the elements and the 18th-century perspective of the universe”
“The Australian Haydn Ensemble has announced its 2022 concert program, celebrating its tenth anniversary with its biggest-ever season.”
by Hugh Robertson
“Focal composer for 2022 …Josef Haydn, whose masterpiece oratorio, “The Creation”, directed by Peelman himself, opens the festival, featuring the finest voices from Australia and NZ and the Australian Haydn Ensemble, which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary.”
★★★★ “ Adapting incredibly quickly to an online setting only minutes after government restrictions were reintroduced, the Haydn Ensemble brought, as it always does, the music of Haydn’s time to life with unmatched passion and skill.”
★★★★1/2 “In times like these we are privileged to be presented with a magnificent triple bill full of splendid playing.”
“AHE presented a throughly enjoyable concert of string quartets …. Skye, Matthew, Karina and Daniel were a delight to watch and listen to and I can’t wait to see them in person in a concert hall very soon!”
“…a sweepingly sublime rendition by the AHE.”
★★★★½ “It was a tour de force …. reinventions played spectacularly well by the violinists, Skye McIntosh and Matthew Greco, throughout.”
★★★★ “The Australia Haydn Ensemble has presented yet another first-class performance, this time featuring Haydn and his stylistic protégé, Mozart.”
“…a lesson rich in history as told in music. The playing, polished with an instinctive understanding of each other, was beautifully balanced, technically impressive and cohesive.”
“Superb musicians on period and reproduction instruments who are definitely worth battling a cyclone to see.”
★★★★ 1/2 “With spirited, consummate performances, this was a brilliant end to the Australian Haydn Ensemble’s year – Midori & Mozart proved an intoxicating cocktail indeed”
“…an exemplary performance of iconic violin works of the classical repertoire … Both soloist and ensemble collaborated in an engagingly beautiful performance of these gems for small forces.”
“The large audience was treated to an encore by Seiler and the Australian Haydn Ensemble, which has rapidly developed into a world-class group of musicians”
“In something of a coup, Australian Haydn Ensemble’s artistic director Skye McIntosh secured the Australian debut of baroque violin star Midori Seiler to end their season.”
“a concert of world-class music that leaves a listener wanting more.”
“How lucky the Northern Rivers is to have an opportunity to hear such playing, live.”
“This quartet used their exquisite listening across the group and bounced well off each other to gift us some beautiful slow movement moments...”
★★★★ “Solar-powered launch to Haydn specialists' season complete with birdsong.”