ARCO’s Young Mannheim Symphonists Keep The Tradition Alive
The Young Mannheim Symphonists is a youth orchestra program conducted by the Australian Romanric & Classical Orchestra (ARCO). It is a unique and exciting program designed to give students and emerging musicians the opportunity to discover the magic of approaching music in historical performance style. As the students are led through great musical masterpieces of…
The McDonald College Opens Online Auditions For 2021
Performing arts school, The McDonald College, invites prospective students to submit an online audition for 2021 intake to the College. This option is available to students looking to enter Year 5 and above into the following streams: Acting, Classical Ballet, Dance (Commercial), Music or Musical Theatre. Video auditions must be submitted to the College Registrar…
The Met’s Daily Opera Streams
The Met Opera has been brightening the lives of our audience members even while their stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT…
Beethoven 250- Impressions: Nicole van Bruggen
This week, Nicole van Bruggen co-artisitic director and principal clarinet with the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra (ARCO), shares her insights into her experiences with the music of Beethoven. Originally from Sydney, Nicole studied modern clarinet at the Sydney Conservatorium and won a Queen’s Trust Scholarship to continue her studies abroad. She moved to The…
Musica Viva Celebrates 75 Years With Highlights From The Past
Musica Viva is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a swag of memories, sharing clips from some favourite performances over the years. Joyce Yang’s rendition of Liszt’s Spanish Rhapsody was a highlight of the 2018 season. Musica Viva welcomed Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang to the stage for a series of solo piano recitals. Renowned for her…
Willoughby Symphony’s Inaugural Online Mini-Concert – Great For The Kids!
To celebrate its new Facebook page, Willoughby Symphony presents a mini virtual concert (hopefully the first of many) – A Spoonful Of Sugar, especially fun for the kids, conducted by George Ellis with soloists from the Pacific Opera alumni. Watch on Facebook and please like and share. You can sing along as well!
Learn From The Best – The First Virtual Benedetti Sessions, Free And Open For Registrations
Violinist Nicola Benedetti has created a project, The Virtual Benedetti Sessions which hopes to offer organisations across the world the opportunity to engage with and together, learn, provide, uplift and excite. Programmes of activity will be available for young musicians, conservatoire and university level music students, instrumental teachers, adult learners, non-instrumentalists, amateur musicians, parents, siblings…
Selby & Friends Chamber Music on Stage & Online
Selby& Friends has broken the ‘living-room broadcast’ barrier with a socially distant concert performance of Mozart, Beethoven and Dvořák, filmed live in Sydney! The first of Kathy’s concerts “Let’s Get Personal” features a piano trio with her friends, Sydney Symphony Orchestra violinist and concertmaster Andrew Haveron and co-principal cellist Umberto Clerici, filmed live on stage…
Ian Whitney Wins Australia Ensemble’s Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship
The Australia Ensemble UNSW has announced the winner of the winner of the Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship for 2020-21. Ian Whitney has been awarded the $10,000 Fellowship, given to an Emerging Composer to write two chamber music works as part of the Australia Ensemble UNSW’s outreach program which fosters greater engagement in and recognition of…