The 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod:
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod:
Bowerbird Collective’s newest project, Songs of Disappearance is a collaboration with BirdLife Australia and nature recordist David Stewart, the result of which is an album of pure birdsong sung by 53 of some of our most threatened species. The recording celebrates the incredible diversity of the Australian soundscape, and highlights the cost of inaction. Be…
As if creating a ballroom on the harbour wasn’t challenging enough, Opera Australia will create a village in Seville on the water when it presents its second production of Hand Opera on the Harbour which in 2013 will be Bizet’s Carmen. Stage productions of Carmen in the past, have included a donkey and a horse. There…
Carl Vine AO has been appointed Patron of drumming ensemble Taikoz and of percussion ensemble Synergy. Carl Vine is one of Australia’s best known and frequently composers. He is also Artistic Director of Musica Viva, The Huntington Music Festival and a Senior Lecturer in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has enjoyed…
If you would like to be in the running to win one of two double passes to the cabaret style launch of the CD Lady Sings the Viol, created in style by director Christine Douglas on August 24th at The Independent Theatre in North Sydney – or – Win one of 4 CD giveaways of…
The Fractured Orchestra Project is a collaborative composition by members of the 550-strong Sydney Youth Orchestras, and the end result is now available online. The Fractured Orchestra is a multi-faceted creative project commissioned by the Sydney Youth Orchestras. Over 3 months in winter 2020 during the height of COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney, Australia, the musicians…
Released last week on the Deutsche Grammophon label, Andris Nelsons, the leading conductor of his generation, takes on a full cycle of Beethoven’s eternal symphonies – directing the Vienna Philharmonic in a series of new recordings made at the historic Vienna Musikverein. These will be released in a deluxe boxed set on 5 CDs, featuring…