International Choral Insights presents Practitioner’s View: How do you teach conducting? Why teach conducting?
Dr Karen Grylls is one of the central figures behind choral music in New Zealand. She is a teacher and mentor; an expert of choral conducting as a practitioner and a pedagogue. International Choral Insights will delve into her experiences and the ideas that have shaped how she does what she does as a teacher of conducting.
For their second concert of 2015, Sydney Antiphony presents works by composers spanning 500 years, all exploring the inescapable human truth: the transience of our existence. At its centre, the concert features John Sheppard’s masterful Media Vita (‘In the midst of life we are in death’), a work groundbreaking in its length, structure and expressive…
Be prepared to face Heaven and Hell on Saturday April 9th at 7 pm and Sunday April 10th at 3 pm when the Choir of Christ Church St Laurence presents Mozart’s apocalyptic “Requiem” and Morton Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna”, at their resident venue, Christ Church St Laurence, George Street, Railway Square. The choir of just 40 singers,…
Head to the Hunter Valley this spring for Australia’s most intimate chamber music festival, the Music in the Hunter, sponsored by Constable Estate and accompanied by fine cuisine and wines from the region in the beautiful setting at Mercure Resort Hunter Valley Gardens. Resident artists, the Goldner String Quartet are joined by the Tinalley String…
The Australia Ensemble@UNSW presents a free lunchtime concert featuring the music of Amy Beach, America’s first successful female composer who wrote with the seasoned hand of the late Romantics. Her marvellous Flute quintet is the centrepiece for this intimate concert, with Poulenc’s quirky Sonata for clarinet and bassoon and Smetana’s Z Domoviny providing ideal bookends….
Opera Australia is reviving Elijah Moshinsky’s classic interpretation of Verdi’s Rigoletto this winter. This popular interpretation is ritzy, sensual and bursting with colour; its characters are unconventional and its music is unforgettable in a story that is as much about obsession as it is about love. Elijah Moshinsky’s resplendent vision embraces the full glamour of Fellini’s…
The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) will end the year with a series of new beginnings including a world premiere from Australian pop music icon Heather Shannon. This work will join Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto featuring Australian soloist Giuseppe Zangari in his first performance with TMO and Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams. Beethoven’s exhilarating Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’, which…