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Sarah Penicka-Smith
REVIEWS
'There was an intense give and take relationship between Lindsay and conductor Penicka-Smith ... thunderous applause leading to an encore.'
Lynne Lancaster, Sydney Arts Guide, May 2023
'Simply spine-tingling...The newly-formed River City Voices and their Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith are to be congratulated on their sterling first season, Hallelujah indeed!'
Jessica Foong, Classikon, December 2020
'Sarah Penicka-Smith (Australia) gets kudos for her performance of the big duet that ends the first act of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Puccini is notoriously difficult to conduct because he raises rubato to a new level that gives the singers a .007 designation. Penicka-Smith allowed Palmertree and Vargas to go their own way and the result was a moving performance.'
Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, Theater Jones, November 2018
'Penicka-Smith ... accompanied stylishly and sensitively in an aria from Vivaldi's Giustino and responded keenly to the twists and turns of a heartrending duet from Puccini's Madama Butterfly.'
Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, November 2018
'Similarly expressive is Sarah Penicka-Smith’s conducting ... The Gay and Lesbian choir ... were well controlled by their conductor whose theatrical timing is equal to the task of being the on-stage director. It is complex music and the conductor sometimes left a note hanging or allowed a silence to envelop rather than rush to the next phrase!'
Judith Greenaway, Sydney Arts Guide, November 2015
'Holy Dreaming ... opened the concert and it intelligently allowed the Willoughby Symphony Choir and the orchestra to create a fine performance under the direction of Sarah Penicka-Smith.'
Alan Holley, ClassikON, May 2021
'There was an intense give and take relationship between Lindsay and conductor Penicka-Smith ... thunderous applause leading to an encore.'
Lynne Lancaster, Sydney Arts Guide, May 2023
'Simply spine-tingling...The newly-formed River City Voices and their Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith are to be congratulated on their sterling first season, Hallelujah indeed!'
Jessica Foong, Classikon, December 2020
'Sarah Penicka-Smith (Australia) gets kudos for her performance of the big duet that ends the first act of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Puccini is notoriously difficult to conduct because he raises rubato to a new level that gives the singers a .007 designation. Penicka-Smith allowed Palmertree and Vargas to go their own way and the result was a moving performance.'
Gregory Sullivan Isaacs, Theater Jones, November 2018
'Penicka-Smith ... accompanied stylishly and sensitively in an aria from Vivaldi's Giustino and responded keenly to the twists and turns of a heartrending duet from Puccini's Madama Butterfly.'
Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, November 2018
'Similarly expressive is Sarah Penicka-Smith’s conducting ... The Gay and Lesbian choir ... were well controlled by their conductor whose theatrical timing is equal to the task of being the on-stage director. It is complex music and the conductor sometimes left a note hanging or allowed a silence to envelop rather than rush to the next phrase!'
Judith Greenaway, Sydney Arts Guide, November 2015
'Holy Dreaming ... opened the concert and it intelligently allowed the Willoughby Symphony Choir and the orchestra to create a fine performance under the direction of Sarah Penicka-Smith.'
Alan Holley, ClassikON, May 2021
VIDEO
River City Voices features in the Sydney Opera House's 50th Birthday celebrations, 21-22 October 2023 (Sarah and the choir appear 32.00 minutes into the livestream).
River City Voices features in the Sydney Opera House's 50th Birthday celebrations, 21-22 October 2023 (Sarah and the choir appear 32.00 minutes into the livestream).
Watch Sarah's collaboration with community choir With One Voice Riverina, the Parkside Cottage Museum Narrandera, and The Cad Factory, to create an artwork with local community members in response to items in the museum collection. Going beyond traditional artist in residence models by bringing a group of artists in to work in a socially engaged way, developing new work with the community, is a first for an Australia museum.
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