Kissin’s Australian debut
Matthew Westwood reviews Kissin’s Sunday night Brisbane performance.
Matthew Westwood reviews Kissin’s Sunday night Brisbane performance.
The breathtaking score to Henry IV by Paul Bremen now appears in soundtrack form on the new digital album HENRY IV: A SYMPHONIC SUITE, available on Bandcamp from 6 June, to coincide with the release of the production on video. Profits go to Paul Bremen, the other artists involved and to Streamed Shakespeare, as they prepare their next exciting venture at the cutting edge of international online theatre!
The BBC has new initiative, BBC Music. To celebrate its launch, a bevy of 27 musicians from around the world and across genres gathered with the 80 strong BBC Concert Orchestra to record a cover version of the Beach Boys’ God Only Knows. Watch the video and test your skills by identifying all 27 starts…
Applications to audition for the Sydney Youth Orchestra in 2020 close next Monday 23 September. Click here to find out more and apply. Sydney Youth Orchestras rehearses weekly with over 550 young musicians aged 6-24 years from all over Sydney and New South Wales. The leading orchestral training and education provider in New South Wales,…
Jennifer Eriksson, viola da gamba player, founder and Artistic Director of The Marais Project recently spent a residency at The Banff Centre in Canada, curating the ensemble’s most recent concert. It was an intensely creative and enriching time. She tells of her experiences in her own words: In January and February 2013 I undertook at short…
Eight finalists announced for the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship. These emerging singers will perform with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the hope of securing their part of the $70,000 on offer for professional development. The 2018 Finalists are: Shikara Ringdahl – Soprano (Brisbane, QLD) Olivia Cranwell – Soprano (Waterloo, NSW) Joshua Oxley – Tenor (Lane Cove,…
If you’ve ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus, a new academy in Sydney lets you indulge that aspiration without having to run away. Composer and producer Chloe Charody and her business partner violinist Sonja Schebeck have taken their experiences from their circus opera The Carnival staged in London’s West End and opened…