More of What’s in Store in “The Love of the Nightingale”




Resonance launches its 2016 series of concerts with Songs About Love, a programme featuring romantic music from across the centuries performed by soprano Anita Kyle with pianist Chris Cartner. Recently returned from Germany after winning the MTO German-Australian Opera Grant, Anita Kyle will perform some of the most beloved and varied ‘songs about love’ from across…
The Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS), has garnered the talents of major soloists from the Melbourne Opera Company for their upcoming concert in September. Soprano Joanna Cole and mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell will join the SUMS choir and full string orchestra conducted by Tim Chung to perform classics by Mozart and Vivaldi. The two soloists have…
Mozart’s celestial Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 is a work that every musician, professional or amateur should perform at least once in his life, not just because of the status it enjoys in Mozart’s oeuvre but for the sheer thrill of the musical experience. The Conservatorium High’s music students will have this opportunity in…
Friday evening’s Australiana theme continues on Melbourne Digital Concert Hall with soprano Greta Bradman and pianist Calvin Bowman performing an intimate recital of sensitive, contemplative music from some of Australia’s greatest composers of song. The performers: Greta Bradman – Soprano/ Calvin Bowman – piano The program: Exquisite songs by Calvin Bowman, including the world premiere of…
What a thrill to watch the creation and growth of a new music ensemble. When that ensemble, like Phoenix, rises from the ashes of something that lived before, there is an added sense of history. This is the story of the Marrickville Symphony Orchestra, the first council supported community orchestra in Sydney, founded in…
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks address for 2014 is to be delivered by Warren Burt speaking on Music : Still ahead of the game. Presented and established in 1999 by the New Music Network, the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address honours of one of Australia’s great international composers, creating an annual forum for ideas relating to the creation and performance of…