Decorated Musicians

Opera director John Copley, pianist Stephen Hough and conductor Sir Simon Rattle are amongst the musicians to be recognised in the Queen’s 2014 New Year Honours List.
Read more from BBC Music Magazine.

Opera director John Copley, pianist Stephen Hough and conductor Sir Simon Rattle are amongst the musicians to be recognised in the Queen’s 2014 New Year Honours List.
Read more from BBC Music Magazine.
The Sydney Festival is hiring an elite German orchestra to perform at the 2014 Sydney Festival, because believe it or not, it is more cost effective than employing an Australian ensemble. Substantial government subsidies are the reason behind this curious situation. Click here to read the feature in The Age.
The first ever anthology of Gurrumul’s classics, The Gurrumul Story is set for release on September 10, 2021 by Decca on digital platforms, CD, Deluxe CD+DVD and on vinyl. The Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Gurrumul (1971-2017) grew up on Elcho Island (Galiwin’ku), off the coast of tropical North East Arnhem land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The…
Omega Ensemble has a new release on ABC Classics, featuring an all Mozart programme recorded in concert at Sydney’s City Recital Hall. The ensemble is conducted by Paul Meyer, clarinet with bassoonist Ben Hoadley, performing Mozart’s classic Symphony No. 40 with his Clarinet and Bassoon Concertos. The tracks: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622/ Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in…
Last night, the English National Opera premiered a new production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Conducted by the ENO’s ex-music director Edward Gardner, designed by the artist Anish Kapoor and direction by Daniel Kramer – the company’s artistic director elect, the cast included Australian tenor Stuart Skelton as Tristan. Will it be the troubled ENO’s saving grace?…
Another ‘Movember’ has come and nearly gone with thousands of men nursing luxuriant and not- so- luxuriant hirsute additions to their profiles. Had they been alive, no doubt some composers would have scored handsomely in the Movember stakes —
Composer Paul Stanhope made his mark on the 2011 APRA Art Music Awards announced last night. His compositions won Work of the Year in both Instrumental (String Quartet No 2) and Vocal/Choral categories. (Deserts of Exile). Sydney audiences were mesmerised by “Deserts of Exile” when the Sydney Chamber Choir performed it in their “Lamentations” programme a few…