Cousin Quartet Win Musica Viva’s Inaugural Strike A Chord National Chamber Music Championship
Congratulations to the Cousin Quartet who are the inaugural winners of Musica Viva’s Strike A Chord, the first National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school ensembles. Performing live from the City Recital Hall in Sydney, the group claimed the Robert Salzer Prize, worth $5, 000. This inaugural Strike A Chord Grand Final was livestreamed from…
Musica Viva Announces Strike A Chord Finalists
Musica Viva has announced the performers in the grand finals of Strike A Chord, the very first National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school ensembles. The 12 finalist ensembles will compete streamed across Australia at 2pm AEST on Saturday 12 September, 2020. After an intense period of listening and deliberation, the jury selected the twelve…
Lise Davidsen Live In Concert
In the latest of the Met Stars Live in Concert series, soprano Lise Davidsen offers a program of the soaring arias and songs that have rocketed her to stardom around the world: selections from Wagner’s Tannhäser, Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, as well as Scandinavian songs by Sibelius and Grieg. Davidsen first came to…
Create NSW Opens Applications For Country Arts Support Program 2021
Create NSW has called for applications for the Country Arts Support Program (CASP) 2021 for regional NSW not-for-profit organisations and local collectives. Funding is available to support regional NSW community arts and cultural development through grants of up to either $3,000 or $5,000, for projects including arts activities as part of community festivals or events,…
This Week From The Met
The Metropolitan Opera has continued to lift spirits keeping its audiences engaged and entertained with its free daily encore presentations, from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website. Each performance is available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT (US time) until 6:30…
Sydney Eisteddfod Crowd Favourites Competition
Sydney Eisteddfod announces a brand new venture, the Crowd Favourites Competition! Dancers, singers, musicians and actors between the ages of 10 & 35, anywhere and everywhere, are invited to to participate by recording their act for the chance of winning from a prize pool of over $6,000! The voting process will be largely up to…
Support Act Offers COVID-19 Crisis Relief Grants
The COVID-19 pandemic has created intense financial hardship for artists, crew and music workers from all genres. Many were the first to lose their jobs and income and this sector could well be the last to recover. Support Act is a charity providing services to musicians, music workers and crew including Crisis Relief grants, mental…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW Awards Willgoss Composition Prizes
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has awarded its 2020 Willgoss Ensemble Composition prize jointly to Elizabeth Younan and Michael Grebla. The prize is aimed at encouraging and promoting the creation of an original, short work for ensembles, in support of a thriving instrumental and choral program at UNSW Sydney. The winners each receive $2500 and…
Lang Lang Releases Goldberg Variations Double On Deutsche Grammophon
Pianist Lang Lang in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon will release a new recording of J S Bach’s Goldberg Variations on 4 September 2020. The culmination of a 20-year journey and his most personal project yet, the album features a studio recording and a live performance from the legendary Thomaskirche in Leipzig. For Lang Lang, recording…