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Discovering Günter Raphael With Acacia Quartet
The musicians of Acacia Quartet will soon be packing their bags for Berlin as they begin a rare adventure discovering and performing the music of German-Jewish composer Günter Raphael. Speaking to SoundsLikeSydney, Acacia cellist Anna Martin-Scrase explained that she and her colleagues, violinists Lisa Stewart and Myee Clohessy and violist Stefan Duwe have been invited…
Timothy Constable Steps Down As Artisitic Director Of Synergy Percussion
Percussionist Timothy Constable is to step down as Artistic Director of Synergy Percussion after 7 years in the role. He will pursue other creative opportunities in solo music, composition and with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as Ian Cleworth steps in as Interim Artistic Director of the ensemble. Timothy joined Synergy Percussion 14 years ago in 2003 when…
Sydney Youth Orchestra Leaves On An Intrepid Voyage
In April, 86 of Sydney Youth Orchestras’ most talented young musicians aged 16 to 25 and drawn from the greater Sydney region, embark on a landmark music education tour of Europe. The Sydney Youth Orchestra’s European tour will visit magnificent cities that are hubs of music, commencing in Vienna and travelling through Budapest, Salzburg, Prague…
Lyn Williams OAM Awarded Australia Council’s Don Banks Music Award
Lyn Williams OAM, Founder and Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts’ prestigious Don Banks Music Award for outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. The honour is in recognition of her lifework as founder of Gondwana Choirs, which began 27 years ago with the creation of the Sydney…
Australia + Austria for Nicholas Carter
For Nicholas Carter, life is going to be busier than ever with the addition of a new European position to his portfolio alongside his present appointment as Principal Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The Melbourne-born conductor will be commuting between Australia and Austria in his new role as Chefdirigent of Stadttheater Klagenfurt and the Kärntnersinfonieorchester…
Australian Tenor Features In Reconstruction of Liszt’s Forgotten Opera
Frozen in time through 170 years, a fragment of an opera by Franz Liszt, begun in 1849 and later abandoned, has been carefully reconstructed and prepared for performance by David Trippett, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. A documentary of the project, due for release in May 2017 features tenor…
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Concert Review: Spanish Baroque/ Australian Brandenburg Orchestra And C!RCA
Spanish Baroque The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra C!RCA City Recital Hall, Sydney May 3, 2017 It was as though a nomadic band of acrobats complete with trobairitz and Baroque instrumentalists had somehow how transcended time and found themselves in Sydney, when the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra directed by the ever-inventive Paul Dyer AO, presented the electrifying Spanish…
Concert Review: Academy of St Martin In The Fields Led By Joshua Bell/ Concert 2
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields led by Joshua Bell Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House April 23, 2017 The second of two Sydney concerts by Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields featured Mozart’s Symphony No 25 in G minor, K 183, his Violin Concerto No 4 in D…