Event
Steel City Strings: Home - Wollongong
- Date: Saturday, 21 March 2026, 7:30pm-9:30pm
- Venue: Wollongong Art Gallery — Cnr of Kembla St and Burelli St, Wollongong, NSW
- Tickets: Individual: $25-$65, family (5): $180.00. All bookings incur an additional fee. — Tickets can be purchased online
Event Details
Join us at Wollongong Art Gallery as we celebrate 10 years of Steel City Strings, with a concert dedicated to what ‘HOME’ means to us. The word ‘home’ conjures up sensations such as familiarity, security and comfort. Such notions go to the core of our identity and our need to belong.
Hear two new commissions by Australian composers, funded by local supporters
+ Adriel Sukumar’s ‘Visions of Home’
+ Barry Conyngham’s ‘Under the Escarpment’
together with
+ ‘The Carnival of the Insects’ by Andrew Ford (and narrated by him at the concert)
+ ‘Cinque Forme d’Amore’ by Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia’s most beloved and recognisable composers, and two beloved pillars of the string repertoire:
+ Anton Dvořák’s evocative ‘Nocturne in B minor ‘and
+ Felix Mendelssohn’s youthful yet radiant ‘String Symphony No. 10’.
Let the glorious music welcome you ‘HOME’ as it carries you through this enchanting program, conducted by highly-respected conductor, Dr Joanna Drimatis who is known as a champion of Australian music, contemporary classical music and emerging musical voices.
Further information for this event is available online at the event's website or by phone on 467869478 or by email to steelcitystrings@gmail.com
Featured Australian Works
| Cinque Forme d'Amore : string orchestra by Elena Kats-Chernin | |
| The Carnival of the Insects (2023) by Andrew Ford | |
| Under the Escarpment (2026) by Barry Conyngham — World premiere | |
| Visions of Home (2026) by Adriel Sukumar — World premiere |
Featured artists
- New work by Adriel Sukumar
- New work by Barry Conyngham
- Conductor Joanna Drimatis
- Music of Andrew Ford
- Music of Elena Kats-Chernin
- Performance/sound art by Steel City Strings
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