“No such thing as an ‘overnight success’ in opera” – Dame Kiri
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is refreshingly honest about the trend to fast-track singers to classical singing without the vital technical foundations.
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Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is refreshingly honest about the trend to fast-track singers to classical singing without the vital technical foundations.
Click here to read The Guardian.
This week’s programme on the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Homecasts series: ACO BACKSTAGE – New Release Satu Vänskä plays Paganini -Principal Violin Satu Vänskä brings a quirky, isolation-inspired interpretation to Paganini’s fiendish Caprice for Violin No.5. Tue 14 Apr, 7pm ABC CLASSIC Duet: Timo-Veikko Valve Principal Cello Timo-Veikko ‘Tipi’ Valve joins pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska for a…
Melbourne based pianist Hoang Pham, 28, took out the award for the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, opus 23 at last night’s Grand Final held at the Melbourne Town Hall. He performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman. He wins…
Flautist Lamorna Nightingale is a core member of Ensemble Offspring, a dynamic and popular New Music ensemble in Sydney. This Sunday, Ensemble Offspring presents Sizzle an informal presentation of a spectrum of music from art music to pop and a bit of everything in between. In this feature, Lamorna Nightingale writes of the universal appeal of…
The music fraternity comments on Lyndon Terracini’s Peggy Glanville-Hicks address: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/director-slated-for-failing-to-cultivate-opera-audiences/story-fn9d2mxu-1226184016943 ….and Lyndon Terracini responds: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opera-in-search-of-an-audience/story-fn9l8bny-1226186191515
Never was there a better reason than necessity for creating something new. It spurred pianist Joe Chindamo and violinist Zoe Black to create their own record label, Mo’Oz Art , which Chindamo says is “a new label for a new direction.” The label’s debut release is Dido’s Lament a collection of 9 pieces, 8 of…
Alison Morgan is a freelance soprano based in Sydney who along with mezzo-soprano Jenny Duck-Chong co-directs acclaimed ensemble Halcyon, Australia’s leading exponent of new chamber music for voice. ‘First Stones’ is Halcyon’s inaugural chamber song project for emerging composers. This is her account of the early stages of this project. The First Stones 2011 Emerging Composers…