Ode to St Cecilia – image gallery from the church of St Cecilia in Rome






Applications are now open to emerging musicians and composers from NSW for the second biennial Peter Sculthorpe Music Fellowship. Offered in honour of the internationally renowned composer, the $30,000 fellowship is offered every second year by Create NSW and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, in partnership with representatives of the Peter Sculthorpe Trust. This…
The beloved Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has died after battling a brain tumour for over 2 years. Tributes have been pouring in from all around the opera world mourning the loss of this great talent, gone far too soon. Whilst he returned to the stage after early treatments, he had to withdraw from later performances….
A new Channel 4 (UK) documentary called Addicts’ Symphony to screen at the end of the month, looks a the lives of musicians whose lives have been disrupted by the misuse of drugs. Click here to read the feature in The Guardian.
Nominations for the 2015 Art Music Awards close at 5pm on Monday 13 April 2015. Nominations may be made online. The Art Music Awards are presented annually by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australian Music Centre to recognise achievement in the composition, performance, education and presentation of Australian music. There are eleven national…
Shanul Sharma sings in Opera Australia’s production of Satyagraha. We interviewed him prior to his appearance in Vicenza as Mitridate in 2021.
“Ridiculously ambitious ” says Kim Moyes, a member of electronic duo The Presets. A sure-fire way to arouse interest in a concept; and ‘concept’ seems to be the best way of describing Timeline the upcoming presentation by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, with The Presets. Directed from the violin by Richard Tognetti, along with Ignatius Jones…