New strings take their bows
The Australian String Quartet has two new players.
The Australian String Quartet has two new players.
Musical dynasties have made their mark in music from the days of the Scarlattis and the Bachs, through to the Shankars and the Lennons. Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim’s 26 year old violinist son Michael, has for 9 years, been the leader of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, (WEDO) created by Barenboim senior as an act of middle eastern reconciliation. The WEDO…
Sydney conductor Carolyn Watson is back in Sydney and brimming with her experiences over four months of the southern summer spent travelling on an extended Churchill Fellowship. “The whole point of a Churchill Fellowship” she says, “is that the study has to be something that can’t be undertaken in Australia. My project was to compare…
German composer Detlev Glanert (b 1960) re-orchestrated the Four Serioua Songs of Brahms and augmened them with preludes and a postlude. The work premiered at the BBC Prom in July 2006. Glanert gives his views on the 21st century re-interpretation of Brahms: http://www.boosey.com/cr/news/Detlev-Glanert-on-his-new-orchestration-of-songs-by-Brahms/11281&LangID=1
Check out these 9 glorious images from Opera Australia’s production of La Traviata which opened in Sydney this week. Images by Branco Gaica courtesy of Opera Australia
“The reviewers will face some thorny issues ……..which are “artistic vibrancy”, “ engagement with audiences” and “highest quality … in a financially sustainable way”. Writing in The Guardian, Donald McDonald former chief executive of Opera Australia articulates some of the difficult issues facing the national review of opera companies announced last week.
The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has announced the appointment of Dale Barltrop as first violin and Francesca Hiew as second violin who will join current quartet members, violist Stephen King and cellist Sharon Draper in 2016. Brisbane-born Barltrop will continue his current position as Concertmaster for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and live in Australia year-round…