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Finalists Announced For 2017 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards
Some of Australia’s finest composers and performers in contemporary classical, jazz and experimental music have today been named as finalists for the 2017 Art Music Awards. Nominees are spread over performing and non-performing categories. Australian State and Territory Awards will be announced during the awards ceremony, while the Distinguished Services to Australian Music Award will…
Filipe Manu Wins The Mathy And The IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition For 2017
Congratulations to 24-year-old Filipe Manu, tenor, from New Zealand who last Saturday won the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarship (The Mathy) and was judged the overall winner of the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. Held at the Concert Hall, The Concourse Chatswood, five emerging singers vied for almost $200,000 in prizes and opportunities. Filipe’s award-winning performance of Pastorello…
Ashkenazy’s French Suites By Bach On Decca
Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist and conductor turns 80 in July – and to celebrate this milestone Decca is releasing his recording of the six French Suites by J S Bach, complete on a single CD, available on July. 14, 2017 The tracks: JS Bach/ French Suites [1]-[5] Suite No. 1 in D minor BWV 812 [6]-[11]…
Ashkenazy’s Complete Concerto Recordings On Decca
Celebrating the 80th birthday of the esteemed pianist and conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Decca is releasing the complete Concerto Recordings of Ashkenazy – 46 CDs in original jackets – every concerto recording ever made for Decca with Ashkenazy as pianist. The anthology includes a previously unpublished Mozart concerto, K488, 2 DVDs featuring Ashkenazy’s 1974 recordings with…
Jayson Gillham Releases A New Album On ABC Classics
Young Australian pianist Jayson Gillham presents his third album on ABC Classics, featuring the music of two Russian friends and piano virtuosi: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2 – one of the most enduring pieces of classical music – and the rarely performed Piano Concerto No.1 by Nikolai Medtner, written just 15 years later. For these recordings,…
Carolyn Watson Wins Place In Dallas Opera Residency
Congratulations go to Ex-Sydneysider Dr Carolyn Watson who is amongst six distinguished conductors to be selected to participate in the Dallas Opera’s third annual residency of the Institute for Women Conductors in November this year. She joins conductors from Brazil, France, the USA, USA/Colombia and Poland in this programme which aims to address a dearth of women…
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Concert Review: Haydn’s Paris / The Australian Haydn Ensemble And Melvyn Tan
The Australian Haydn Ensemble: Skye McIntosh (Artistic Director) Melvyn Tan (Fortepiano) 1 July 2017, City Recital Hall, Angel Place The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s (AHE) recent concert featured Melvyn Tan as the fortepiano soloist and took Paris as the common denominator of its program. Tan is a fortepiano pioneer of historically informed performances, and is noted…
Concert Review: Musica Viva Sessions
Musica Viva Sessions, The National Herbarium of NSW The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney 29 June 2017 Written by Deen Hamaker Musica Viva’s Sessions series is a bold initiative which aims to attract new audiences and re- invigorate the way classical music is heard and where it is performed. The prospect of an unusual combination of…