Are You An Orchestra Nerd?

You spend your weekends at rehearsal and your wardrobe is full of all-black outfits; you were in a quartet not a garage band……take this quiz from the Huffington Post and find out if you really are an orchestra nerd!

You spend your weekends at rehearsal and your wardrobe is full of all-black outfits; you were in a quartet not a garage band……take this quiz from the Huffington Post and find out if you really are an orchestra nerd!
The influence of Peter Sculthorpe on Australian music in the 20th and 21st centuries is beyond measure. The Goldner Quartet aims to document at least some of the essence of this great life and great talent in a new documentary. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/four-score-and-19-political-quartets-later-20120424-1xj20.html
Applications are now open for Ensemble Offspring’s 2017 Hatched Academy, an intensive music program aimed at providing practical experience to emerging innovative young Australian performers and composers. Ensemble Offspring is looking for composers and performers under 30 with a passion for the ‘sonic weird and wonderful’. Designed to provide practical experience, the Academy will equip artists…
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour returns in 2017 with a reprise of Bizet’s Carmen first seen on the harbour in 2013. The production will run from March 24 to April 23, 2017. Produced by Gale Edwards, the sets are designed by Brian Thomson and costumes by Julie Lynch. The cast for this production has yet to…
The Financial Review has published a collection of images of what the Sydney Opera House might have looked like. These are some of the entries that were displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in January 1957. The Sydney landscape could have looked so different! Click here.
Yesong Sophie Lee, just 12 years old has won the biennial 2016 Menuhin competition, held in London last month. It was the centenary of the competition whose Laureates include Australians Ray Chen, Susie Park and Grace Clifford, Germany’s Julia Fisher and Russia’s Alina Ibragimova. Charlotte Smith in The Strad asks whether competitions are defined more…
La Scala + Barenboim + Kaufmann + Garanca + Baltsa + Pape + La Scala Choir and Orchestra = a not to be missed performance of Verdi’s Requiem. Available till October 26th 2013 on SBS On Demand http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/52400195958/Verdi-Requiem