PhiloMusica, Sunday August 9 2026 Kendall School of Arts
1 pm Pre-Concert Talk: I am not a man, I am dynamite - Friedrich Nietzsche and Music (Goetz Richter)
2 pm Nietzsche's Dionysian Disciples
Goetz Richter (violin) and Paul Cheung (Piano) perform Sonatas by Hans Pfitzner and Richard Strauss. These musical antagonists of the early twentieth Century were nevertheless joined by a common focus on Nietzschean ideas. The concert also features Eine Sylvesternacht, a short work for violin and piano by Friedrich Nietzsche and Die Schoenste Nacht, an evocative work for solo piano by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Hans Pfitzner Sonata E Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 27
Friedrich Nietzsche Eine Sylvesternacht for Violin and Piano
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Die schoenste Nacht (1946)
Richard Strauss Sonata E flat Major for Violin and Piano, op. 18
Goetz Richter (violin) | Paul Cheung (piano)
For more information and tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/kendall-philomusica-august-9
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2026 DATES
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Aug 9 - PhiloMusica
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Sept 20 – PhiloMusica
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Nov 1 – PhiloMusica
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Dec 6 – Christmas Concert
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Dec 12 – KNVC Semi-finals (Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
PHILOMUSICA AND KNVC 2026 DATES
23rd Kendall National Violin Competition prize winners here
Vale, Patron of the Kendall National Violin Competition
Donald Leslie Grant Hazelwood OBE AO (1930-2025)
