‘Give me Excess of it’
Kathy Evans of the Sydney Morning Herald reports on the memoirs of Richard Gill:
Kathy Evans of the Sydney Morning Herald reports on the memoirs of Richard Gill:
“I hear a note by one of the fellows in the band and it’s one colour. I hear the same note played by someone else and it’s a different colour. When I hear sustained musical tones I see them in textures. If Harry Carney is playing, D is dark blue burlap. If Johnny Hodges…
Clarinet player Lloyd Van’t Hoff won the prestigious Grand Final of the 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards over the weekend, performing Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch at Federation Concert Hall in Hobart. Now 24, Lloyd studied clarinet at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music graduating with Honours in 2011…
Soprano Zoe Drummond from New South Wales has won the 2016 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship awarded by the Opera Foundation for young Australians (formerly Opera Foundation Australia). The six finalists performed in a public recital at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music last weekend, in the presence of His Excellency General, The Hon. David Hurley,Governor of NSW,…
There is a change of leadership at The Australia Council for the Arts, as CEO Kathy Keele steps down at the end of the year. The government’s central arts funding and advisory body distributes more than $160 million each year in funding for arts organisations and individuals, nationally. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/australia-council-chief-kathy-keele-steps-down/story-e6frg8n6-1226519446195
The Choir of St James’ King Street has been busy recording music for a CD project, Metamorphosis. Recorded in the reverberant acoustic of the crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral, the project is seeking funding for the CD to become a reality. However, the works recorded include: Twist J: Lamentation of Jeremiah Versa est…
In an era of vanishing record shops and digital downloads, the Academy of Ancient Music announces the launch of its own record label: AAM Records. Since its foundation in 1973 the AAM has released over 300 CDs, predominantly on the Decca and Harmonia Mundi labels. Establishing its own flagship label AAM Records, will enable the AAM to take…