Maxim Vengerov was appointed Menuhin Professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London, earlier this year. He has concerts coming up in Moscow, London, Baku, Lausanne and Munich – all in the next 2 weeks.
Click here to read his interview with Andrew Clark of the Financial Times.
Musica Viva has recently launched a new national office in Sydney and included in the brand new premises is a rehearsal space intended to relieve the pressure on local ensembles struggling to find a rehearsal venue. Musica Viva intends to make this studio available to the wider music community on a cost-neutral basis. Musica Viva’s…
In this centenary year of Benjamin Britten’s birth, Opera Australia is presenting his satirical gem Albert Herring in the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre in August. Conducted by Anthony Legge, Kanen Breen as Herring and Jacqueline Dark as Lady Billows head a superb ensemble which includes Sian Pendry, Dominica Matthews, Elvira Fatykhova, Michael Lewis, John Longmuir, Conal Coad, Roxane Hislop…
Soprano Isabella Moore, 23, from New Zealand was awarded the Marianne Mathy Scholarship for 2014, awarded by the IFAC Australian Singing Competition. Performing with the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra conducted by Maestro Johannes Fritzsch and competing with four other sopranos in the finals of the competition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music last weekend,…
Applause Musical Theatre Academy is offering children and teens short courses in the skills of performing in music theatre in summer holiday programmes in four venues across Sydney’s north. The courses will teach music, drama and dance in two and three-day workshops in Chatswood, Roseville, St Ives and Killarney Heights. Participants will learn to sing, dance…
Christian Badea chuckles as he confesses that he has known Tosca all his life. The Romanian born US based conductor is in Sydney again for Opera Australia, rehearsing John Bell’s production of the Puccini opera which opens here in early July. Just last year, the graduate of the Juilliard School, Grammy Award winning conductor and past- director…
Click here to read Matthew Westwood’s update on the Melbourne Ring cycle in The Australian.