Review: Beethoven's Trio (Limelight Magazine)
★★★★ ... impassioned and powerful... all brilliantly done.
Read More
Eternal Quartets: Life, Birth, Death, Eternity and the whole damn thing.→
★★★★☆ - "... first-class playing... a superb performance of one of the most extraordinary 20th-century chamber pieces.”
Read More
Eternal Quartets at City Recital Hall →
"Audience reaction to this charismatic work and its reverent performance at this event was nothing short of ecstatic..." Paul Nolan.
Read More
International Clarinet Association
"Rowden’s earnest phrasing and nuance elevate any music....Omega’s musicians are top notch, with a mature sense of blend and cohesion." The Clarinet Magazine
Read More
Schubert's Trout
... some of Australia’s finest string and wind players...
Read More
Schubert's Trout
... a well-balanced sound with impressive unanimity.
Read More
Omega Ensemble lands a Trout as old friends get together again
... always a delight to watch.
Read More
OMEGA ENSEMBLE : SONGS FROM THE BUSH @ THE UTZON ROOM
This imaginative composition is significant in the new Australian music canon for combining the melange of colonial and indigenous musical expression and bringing it to the intimacy of scoring for the clarinet and string quartet.
Read More
Folk meets classical when Omega Ensemble plays Songs from the Bush
... hauntingly beautiful clarinet... gentle spacious chorale of strings...
Read More
Omega Ensemble in the Utzon Room - Haydn and Mozart
... eloquence and mastery ...the tapestry of Australia’s concert life.
Read More
Hard to imagine a better performance in a more beautiful venue.
... whole performance was masterful... I could not fault the performance.
Read More
Omega Ensemble launches its season to a packed house
The lovely thing about going to one of the Omega Ensemble’s concerts is that you get a smorgasbord of chamber music in its various guises, all played by first-rate musicians.
Read More
Haydn and Mozart Concert at Sydney Opera House
... a superb performance of high calibre...
Read More
Omega Ensemble’s debut recording on ABC Classics is interesting and polished
Omega Ensemble are to be commended for their first CD, one that includes two world-class clarinetists in Rowden and Ashkenazy and contains an intriguing mix of old and new works.
Read More
Album Review: Omega Ensemble - Mozart / Munro / Palmer→
... It is an impressive debut recording from this versatile ensemble, that combines both the old and the new....
Read More
Three Parts Mozart and Omega's Debut Album
...Bassoon Concerto, the highlight of the evening, its soloist Ben Hoadley beautifully capturing the sonorous, lugubrious tones of this too often forgotten instrument.
Read More
Three Parts Mozart, Omega Ensemble with Paul Meyer
...they were firing on all cylinders from the outset, playing with exceptional concentration and precision.
Read More
An evening of superb music, brilliantly played
... the applause was deafening... not a note out of place.
Read More