Seong-Jin Cho’s Award Winning Performance On CD
When the 21-year-old South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho won the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition last year, Deutsche Grammophon had their microphones at the ready to record his award-winning performances. This recording is now available as a debut solo album simply entitled Seong-Jin Cho. Cho’s record speaks for itself. He has been winning competitions since 2008…
Winners Of 2016 ENO Mackerras Fellowship Announced
Sir Charles Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE (1925 – 2010) Australian conductor, was one of the nation’s most revered and loved musicians. He was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and also had a glittering career around the world. The English National Opera (ENO) is just one ensemble with which he had a long and enduring…
New York Philharmonic Appoints A New Conductor
The 55-year-old Dutch conductor and violinist Jaap van Zweden has been announced as the incoming conductor of the New York Philharmonic. He is currently Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and succeeds Alan Gilbert, whose appointment began in 2009 and ends with the 2016–17 season. Click here for more.
Jan Lisiecki: Schumann – Works for Piano and Orchestra
The brilliant young Polish-Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki has recently released his third recording with Deutsche Grammophon Jan Lisiecki: Schumann – Works for Piano and Orchestra. It opens with the Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54. It also contains the Introduction and Allegro appassionato op. 92, Träumerei op. 15 no. 7 and the rarely heard Introduction and Allegro…
Paolo Bordogna Records Buffo Arias On “Tutto Buffo”
Italian buffo baritone Paolo Bordogna has charmed Sydney’s audiences with his singing and comedic timing, first as the Turk in The Turk in Italy, then as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro last year and now as the ‘other’ Figaro in The Barber of Seville. Last year he released a CD of arias from the…
The Barber of Seville Picture Gallery
Opera Australia’s revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s laugh-a -minute production of The Barber of Seville opened in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House this week. The madcap music runs at a frantic pace with slapstick comedy and characters reminiscent of a Buster Keaton movie. Till March 22, 2016. Scroll down to see all…
Q And A With Amy Dickson – A New CD And Concerts In Sydney
For Sydney-born saxophonist Amy Dickson, 2016 is shaping up to be a busy year. March sees the release of a CD Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi which features her as a soloist; in July she returns to Sydney from her London base to perform at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra…
Australia Day Honours For Musicians
Congratulations to two outstanding Australian musicians have been recognised in the Australia Day Honours for 2016! Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra since 2001, Dr Nicholas Milton, has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the arts, particularly to classical orchestral music performance, as…
Can classical music be cool?
An excellent piece in The Economist Can classical music be cool? on building new, younger audiences for classical music.