Classical music festival at Pearl Beach

The Pearl Beach Progress Association will hold its classical music festival for the 18th year on the weekend of June 11 and 12 from 2:30pm at Pearl Beach Memorial Hall.

The festival has a distinguished track record of bringing some of Australia's and the world's top artists to the memorial hall to present a variety of choral and orchestral music.

The concert will open at 2:30pm with Musica Viva's Orave String Quartet, a group that was hand-picked to appear as one of five Rising-Stars in the Utzon Room series at the Sydney Opera House.

The group will be performing works including Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Schulhoff.

From 7:30pm on Saturday, Kathryn Selby and Taryn Fieberg will perform works of Schubert, Brahms, Gershwin, Ross Edwards and Ian Grandage.

Kathryn Selby is the artistic director of the A Little Lunch Music series and her own nationally touring series Selby and Friends.

Flautist Jane Rutter will return to the Pearl Beach festival on Sunday afternoon at 2.30pm, accompanied by pianist Christopher Cartner.

Jane will perform her Irish tribute performance Fire and Water; An Irish Fantasy.

To compliment the Irish pieces, Jane will add some fiery classical music.

The festival concludes on Sunday evening at 7.30pm when Aspara and friends will perform an eclectic mix of music from classical to Spanish Renaissance and contemporary original works.

Website, 5 May 2011 Pearl Beach Progress Association