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Hear the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in your city on our 2026 Regional Tour, as we travel to Port Macquarie, Armidale, Nowra, Canberra and Wyong with a concert of music for – and inspired by – dance.

Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey leads the Orchestra in this program featuring captivating works by Debussy, Stravinsky, Kodály and Sydney’s own Holly Harrison.

Be moved by Stravinsky’s suite from The Firebird, an enchanting folk tale that bursts off the stage in a riot of colour and sound, and by Zoltán Kodály’s energetic Dances of Galánta, which draws from the folk music of Eastern Europe. Holly Harrison’s Hi-Vis recreates the buzz and energy of nighttime roadworks outside her Sydney home, while Debussy conjures a swirling, intoxicating atmosphere in Sacred and Profane Dances, featuring our Principal Harp Louisic Dulbecco.

Don’t miss your only chance to hear the Sydney Symphony in Port Macquarie this year!

Program

KODÁLY

Dances of Galanta

DEBUSSY

Sacred and Profane Dances

Holly HARRISON

Hi-Vis

STRAVINSKY

The Firebird: Suite (1919 version)

Artists

Musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Louisic Dulbecco

Principal Harp

Louisic started learning the harp and the piano in her hometown Bordeaux, France. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Hamburg in the class of Xavier de Maistre, and her Master’s in Würzburg in the class of Andreas Mildner. She also holds a Master’s degree in Chamber Music from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.

During her studies she joined the association Live Music Now, founded by Yehudi Menuhin, through which she gave a lot of solo and duo concerts at diverse venues. She also received scholarships from the Oscar and Vera Stiftung and the Deutschland Stipendium.

Louisic was most recently Principal Harp of the Warsaw Philharmonic, and was for many years the academician at Hamburg State Opera under conductor Kent Nagano, where she played opera, ballet and symphony concerts.

Louisic has performed with orchestras across Europe, including Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in Berlin, Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Bremer Philharmoniker in Bremen, the Sinfonieorchester St.Gallen (Switzerland) and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.

Alongside her experience as an orchestra musician, Louisic has also been teaching her instrument for many years. She loves playing chamber music and has played in a lot of different formations, including a number of ensembles dedicated to contemporary and experimental music.

Louisic Dulbecco

Benjamin Northey

Conductor in Residence

Australian conductor Benjamin Northey is the Chief Conductor of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Conductor in Residence of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Principal Guest Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. In 2025 he was appointed Professor of Conducting at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Director of the Australian Conducting Academy. He has previously held the posts of Associate Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2010-2019), Resident Guest Conductor of the Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (2002-2006) and Principal Guest Conductor of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra (2007-2010).

Northey studied conducting at Finland's Sibelius Academy with Professors Leif Segerstam and Atso Almila after being accepted as the highest placed applicant in 2002. He completed his studies at the Stockholm Royal College of Music with Jorma Panula in 2006.

He previously studied conducting with John Hopkins OBE at the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music from 2000-2002.

Northey appears regularly as a guest conductor with all major Australian symphony orchestras, Opera Australia (La bohème, Turandot, L'elisir d'amore, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Carmen), New Zealand Opera (Sweeney Todd), Victorian Opera (Candide, Into the Woods) and the State Opera South Australia (La sonnambula, L’elisir d’amore, Les contes d’Hoffmann).

His international appearances include concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

Northey has collaborated with a broad range of leading artists including Lang Lang, Pinchas Zukerman, Wynton Marsalis, Maxim Vengerov, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Julian Rachlin, Karen Gomyo, Piers Lane, Alban Gerhardt, Johannes Moser, William Barton, Lu Siquing, Amy Dickson, Slava Grigoryan, Marc-André Hamelin, James Morrison, Kurt Elling, Archie Roach, Ben Folds, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Paul Grabowsky, Tim Minchin, kd Lang, Patti Austin, Kate Miller-Heidke, Megan Washington, Barry Humphries, Meow Meow and Tori Amos.

Northey is highly active in the performance and recording of new Australian orchestral music, having premiered dozens of major new works by Australian composers.  He has previously been a board member of the Australian Music Centre.

An Aria Awards, Air Music Awards, and Art Music Awards winner, he was voted Limelight Magazine's Australian Artist of the Year in 2018. Northey's many recordings can be found on ABC Classics. In 2025, he conducts the Melbourne, Sydney, Queensland, Tasmanian and Christchurch Symphony Orchestras and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Benjamin Northey