Pocket Score Company and Polifemy – St Paul's Cathedral Manuka, Sunday 26 September 3pm

Pocket Score Company is a four voice, all male ensemble specialising in Medieval and Renaissance a cappella works. Likewise, Polifemy is an eight voice, all female ensemble specialising in music from the same period. They joined forces for two concerts on Saturday and Sunday to present a programme of mostly sacred Renaissance music, sometimes together and sometimes apart.

School of Music Orchestra – Llewellyn Hall Friday 24 September 7pm.

After the highly successful June concert (reviewed in the June issue of SOM Times view here), I entered Llewellyn Hall expecting big things. Despite the admission still being free, audience numbers seemed reduced, probably due to the fact that most people are out on the town on a Friday night. Nevertheless, the orchestra rose to produce a credible programme of some edge of the repertory items.

Hughes Festival of Music – Tobias Cole and Anthony Smith – Thursday 23 September 7pm, Hughes Post Office

They won the Sydney Eisteddfod’s ‘instrumental duo’ and ‘chamber music with guitar’ divisions in 2006 and have since performed for guitar societies in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and at the Darwin International Guitar Festival - the last of which, incidentally, was instigated by now Head of the ANU School of Music, Professor Adrian Walter. They’ve appeared on ABC radio numerous times and have been profiled on the ABC TV programme Stateline. Now they’re signing copies of their second CD, Landscape: Australian Guitar Duets, after each performance for a throng of enthusiastic concertgoers.

Research Editor Alexander O'Sullivan talks with Anthony Smith about his upcoming PhD submission.

Anthony Smith is well known within the Canberra community as an pianist and composer. His PhD thesis is entitled “A Dionysian Style Revealed: selected influences on Constant Lambert's compositional language, with specific reference to the “Bacchanle” movements from the ballets Horoscope and Tiresias, and the “Brawles” movement of the masque Summer's Last Will and Testament.