Are music downloads declining in popularity with a return to the hallowed CD? The people who were surveyed in this feature seem to overwhelmingly prefer to spend their money on music they can hold.
Images from An Evening with the Viennese Titans, held last weekend in which orchestra seventeen88 conducted by Benjamin Bayl performed the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, with solo flautist Georgia Browne. Rachael Beesley led the ensemble form the violin in the dramatic New Hall at Sydney Grammar School. Scroll down to see all four…
Giovanni Sollima surmises that if he landed on earth from another world and were handed a cello without being told what it was, he would probably use it to sail in. An interesting abstraction from the virtuoso Italian cellist who is touring with the Australia Chamber Orchestra this month. The cello as a sailing…
In anticipation of its new Music Theatre program in 2022, the Conservatorium Open Academy is presenting a workshop to give students aged 15 to 25 to the skills needed to be a great musical theatre performer. With insights including stagecraft and presence, vocal technique, characterisation, ensemble work and more, students will have the chance to…
In a home in the northern outskirts of Sydney lies a truly remarkable collection of period keyboard instruments. Nestled near the natural bushland at Berowra Heights, Ralph Schureck has assembled some thirty-five instruments, making The Schureck Collection the largest collection of concert quality early keyboards in Australia. Instruments from before 1780 are accurate copies…
This weekend the Sydney Chamber Choir (see our post), presents their concert “Bach to the Future” performing three of JS Bach’s great motets, and building on them with the works of contemporary composers who include Richard Marlowe, Stephen Paulus, and Gabriel Jackson. Amongst this cohort is a young Australian composer, Joseph Twist who is in fact, a…
Violinist Riccardo Minasi is soloist and Guest Director with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in its season of ‘Glorious Baroque’ which opened last weekend. Here are four photographs from the opening concerts. ‘Glorious Baroque’ continues on November 2nd, 4th and 5th. See also: http://soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/possum-goes-for-baroque-2/5310.html and http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/an-accomplished-pastiche-with-notes-of-a-fine-merlot-20111030-1mqan.html