“COMPOSER CHLOÉ CHARODY IS REMARKABLE NOT JUST FOR HER GENRE-DEFYING MUSIC OR THE GRAVITY-DEFYING NATURE OF ITS PERFORMANCE – A COMBINATION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, CIRCUS AND OPERA – BUT FOR HER COMMITMENT TO HIGHLIGHTING THE PLIGHT OF REFUGEES IN HER WORK.”

“IF EVER THERE WAS A PROGRAM TO SHOW OFF THE SHARPER, DEEPER, MORE CLEARLY BALANCED ACOUSTICS OF THE SONICALLY REFURBISHED CONCERT HALL IN THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, IT WAS THIS LINEUP. BERLIOZ, THE MOST IMAGINATIVE ORCHESTRATOR OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, WHO PUBLISHED A BOOK ON THE SUBJECT; RAVEL, ARGUABLY THE GREATEST ORCHESTRATOR OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AND CHLOÉ CHARODY (B. 1984), AN AUSTRALIAN COMPOSER WITH AN INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION, WHO REALLY KNOWS HER WAY AROUND THE ORCHESTRA”