Filming hits the wrong note with pianist Zimmerman
Pianist Krystian Zimmerman made a point about audience filming during recitals at a recent performance in Germany.
Click here to read the article from the BBC.
Pianist Krystian Zimmerman made a point about audience filming during recitals at a recent performance in Germany.
Click here to read the article from the BBC.
Written by composer and jazz saxophonist Spike Mason, FLYING was inspired by a poem written by the Tasmanian poet Di Adams about someone waking up and realising that they can FLY! Originally from Sydney, now based in Tasmania, Spike composed this work while flying back and forth to work each week in Sydney. FLYING is…
The freshness of spring is an apt time to launch a brand-new festival, and that is exactly what violinist Emma Jardine is doing with the inaugural Oberon Chamber Music festival, in the NSW central tablelands town of Oberon over the last weekend of November 2023.
The Australian Music Centre has announced that three artists will feature in the 2021 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address which will take the form of a live-stream panel discussion featuring three musically diverse panellists: ethno-jazz pianist and composer Zela Margossian, boundary-breaking composer and percussionist Bree van Reyk, and singer, composer and improviser Sia Ahmad. The conversation will…
The Australian String Quartet has two new players. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/dream-chamber-music-role-keeps-young-violin-star-here/story-fn9d2mxu-1226131720638
As the world remembers fallen soldiers this week and the year marks the centenary of WW I, conductor Marin Alsop writes about the enduring power of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and why it is unique amongst sacred works. Click here to read.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s interpretations of the music of JS Bach are considered by other performers to be works of reference. In 1999 he undertook a Bach pilgrimage with the Monteverdi Choir, and just last month he conducted a Bach marathon at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In this feature from The Guardian, he writes of his…