Clear Music’s Deals of the Day this week:
Thursday: Beethoven Piano Concerti, piano reductions, Bärenreiter editions.
Friday: O’Leary Violin Studies bks 1 and 2
Saturday: Fauré piano music – Ballade, Barcarolles, Valses-Caprices, Bärenreiter editions
Sunday: Pegler Best of Singing, Grades 1-3, 4-5. for high voice and low voice, book and CD.
Sixteen year old Grace Clifford has won the coveted 2014 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, announced at the Grand Finals of the competition held in Adelaide last night. For her winning performance she played Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D, Op.61 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman at the Adelaide Town Hall. A formidably talented…
Opera Australia celebrates its 200th performance of its Gale Edwards production of Puccini’s La Bohème offering with 200 tickets for 200 cents.
“They might write it but darling, I don’t read it – I don’t need it”. So says the legendary soprano Jessye Norman in this excerpt from a no-holds-barred interview with Stephen Sackur of BBC’s HARDtalk. She also gives her views on the selection of singers based on their appearance over their ability to sing a…
Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, 41, has been appointed music director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera. It’s a critical time at which he succeeds James Levine who led the company for over four decades. Nézet-Séguin presently heads up the Orchestre Métropolitain, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He will take over at the met in…
The Song Company announces its multiform Burden of Truth project which continues beyond their current world première tour, making the album now universally available.
NSW Doctors’ Orchestra Sydney Eisteddfod Instrumental Scholarship The Sydney Eisteddfod has announced the six finalists selected from a field of 33 contenders in the NSW Doctors’ Orchestra Sydney Eisteddfod Instrumental Scholarship. They are: Mitzi Gardner – Violin Andrew Blanch – Classical Guitar Vincent Lo – Cello Amy Huang – Violin Julie Kim – Harp Jeffrey Cheah…