The Song Company review
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald.
…by Peter McCallum for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Omega Ensemble announces an important initiative which in its mission to provide a platform for diverse musical voices and, in doing so, support the livelihoods of world-class Australian talent on home soil. In March 2021, the ensemble will launch CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program which offers five talented pre-professional composers direct industry experience in collaboration with…
A performance by Halcyon of a work by Elliot Gyger “From the Hungry Waiting Country “ written for specific voices and harpist, is another finalist in the prestigious 2011 APRA Art Music Performance of the Year category. The winners are to be announced tonight. Part of Halcyon’s 2009 “Extreme Nature” programme, the work brings together Halcyon, harpist Genevieve Lang and…
On March 19, The NSW Drs Orchestra will gather eighty medical professionals and students under its banner to perform a concert for the 9th consecutive year to fund its continuing partnership with Sydney Eisteddfod in sponsoring the NSW Drs Orchestra Sydney Eisteddfod Instrumental Scholarship in 2017 and the medical charity Freedom Across Australia. Dr Susan Allman…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
Louise Callinan as Mercedes in ‘Carmen’ at the Opera National de Paris. Image by David Bacher. As this post goes live, mezzo -soprano Louise Callinan would have just come off stage after opening night at the Paris Opera, where she is singing the role of Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen. Paris based photographer David Bacher’s images from the final…
Deutsche Grammophon will release the soundtrack to the movie, Maestro played by the London Symphony Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.