Ben Apfelbaum

SYDNEY SINGS : AUSTRALIA’S INAUGURAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE

 

Jonathan O'Dea MP
Jonathan O’Dea MP
Leo Schofield
Leo Schofield

Featured photo- The world renowned Sydney Philharmonic Choir 

These are a few of the photos that I took at the launch of the upcoming inaugural Sydney Sings Festival held in the foyer of the City Recital Hall at Angel Place. The Festival will take place in venues large and small, traditional and unexpected, from the Sydney CBD to Western Sydney.

Leo Schofield AM and Jarrod Carland, together with The Hon Stuart Ayres MP, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events, hosted the event.

The Festival will showcase all genres of vocal performance from musical theatre, to choirs, jazz and liturgical music and solo performances, with more than 700 performers expected to participate.

The Sydney Sings Festival will take place between 28 July and 7 August. This festival is exclusive to Sydney.

http//www.sydneysings.org.au

Editor’s Note – Sadly, since this post was published,  this Festival has been announced that this Festival has been postponed indefinitely. 

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.