Tan Dun named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

UNESCO has named Tan Dun, the composer of the Academy Award winning soundtrack to the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Goodwill Ambassador.
Click here to read the feature in Gramophone.

UNESCO has named Tan Dun, the composer of the Academy Award winning soundtrack to the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a Goodwill Ambassador.
Click here to read the feature in Gramophone.
The Northside Opera Study Group, meeting in Lindfield, continues its meetings every Monday till the end of the year. Whether you are a long-term opera enthusiast or a novice who wants to learn more about the subject, NOSG invites you to share your interest in music and opera with their friendly group. Their programmes are wide and varied…
New York’s Metropolitan Opera announces Met Stars Live in Concert, a new series of 12 pay-per-view concerts featuring opera’s most extraordinary voices, streamed live from striking locations across Europe and the United States. While the Metropolitan Opera House remains dark because of the ongoing health crisis, Met Stars Live in Concert will allow audiences to…
Omega Ensemble and ABC Classic have released a new recording, Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op. 43. In Nielsen’s biography, the author writes: ‘Nielsen’s fondness of wind instruments is closely related to his love of nature, his fascination for living, breathing things. He was also intensely interested in human character, and the Wind Quintet, composed deliberately for…
In more news about pianists, the AFR has published this interview with 23 year old Russian protege Daniil Trifonov and ends the feature with a list of the very best 6 pianists who are not yet 35 years old.Guess who they are…
Oscar Wong from the Gold Coast, Queensland has won the Sydney Eisteddfod Kawai Senior Piano Scholarship for 2024
Congratulations to Elena Kats-Chernin who has been nominated in two categories of the Australian Women in Music Awards. Winners announced in May in Brisbane.