Mozart’s Final Year

The last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound in myth and mystery. Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Richard Wigmore unravels the events of Mozart’s final year in Gramophone Magazine.

The last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart abound in myth and mystery. Writer, broadcaster and lecturer Richard Wigmore unravels the events of Mozart’s final year in Gramophone Magazine.
Angus Davison wins the 2022-23 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship.
Congratulations to mezzo-soprano Sidra Nissen, winner of The Marianne Mathy Scholarship (‘The Mathy’).
The Utzon Music Series returns to the Sydney Opera House in 2025 under the direction of renowned arts advocate, performer, composer and recorder virtuoso Genevieve Lacey.
The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) under Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams has opened applications for its inaugural Composer Development Program in 2016 offering a unique opportunity for composers to extensively workshop and develop their composition and overall craft within a professional context. Submissions are due by February 19, 2016. A three-stage project, TMO’s Composer…
The winners of the prestigious 2013 Paul Lowin Prizes were announced at ceremony in Sydney on Monday night, 28th October. Elliot Gyger won the $15,000 purse in the Song Cycle category for giving voice (2012), a cycle of eight songs for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, based on Australian female poets’ words about early childhood…
Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic “smoked it” in their live recordings of Dvořák’s final three symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon.