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Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie: Kats-Chernin And Cislowska On ABC Classics
Unsent Love Letters – Meditations on Erik Satie is the new album from ABC CLassics which features music by Elena Kats-Chernin inspired by Erik Satie, performed by pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska. It is available digitally and as a double CD After Satie’s death, dozens of unsent love letters were found in his Paris apartment. Now composer Elena…
Adrian Tamburini Wins 2017 Opera Award
Adrian Tamburini, the NSW bass-baritone has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Opera Awards. He was selected after audition and interview by an eminent panel of adjudicators comprising musician and artist Dr Di Bresciani OAM, tenor Anson Austin OAM, soprano Cheryl Barker AO and maestro Simon Kenway. As winner of the Opera Awards, Adrian…
The Idea Of North Changes Its Line-Up
ARIA award-winning a capella vocal quartet The Idea of North has announced a change in line-up as soprano Sally Cameron and co-founder and bass Andrew Piper have decided to leave the ensemble to pursue other goals and interests. Sally Cameron has been with the group for 10 years and Andrew Piper co-founded the group as…
The Oboe And The Steth – Playing In The NSW Drs Orchestra
On March 19, The NSW Drs Orchestra will gather eighty medical professionals and students under its banner to perform a concert for the 9th consecutive year to fund its continuing partnership with Sydney Eisteddfod in sponsoring the NSW Drs Orchestra Sydney Eisteddfod Instrumental Scholarship in 2017 and the medical charity Freedom Across Australia. Dr Susan Allman…
Messiah In Pictures – The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra And The Brandenburg Choir
Happy Birthday George Frideric Handel born this day in 1685! Check out the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s debut performance of Handel’s masterpiece Messiah, which opened at the City Recital Hall last night, with the Brandenburg Choir and soloists. The season runs in Sydney till March 4. Scroll down to see all 7 images. Images by Steven Godbee, courtesy…
Sydney Youth Orchestras Launches The Western Sydney Youth Orchestra
Sydney Youth Orchestras (SYO), in partnership with Riverside Theatres, has formed the inaugural Western Sydney Youth Orchestra (WSYO), an exciting new venture which pulls together the best young orchestral musicians from across Western Sydney. The orchestra will rehearse in Parramatta each week and then perform in a series of concerts through 2017 and beyond in…
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Concert Review: Academy of St Martin In The Fields Led By Joshua Bell/ Concert 1
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields led by Joshua Bell Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House April 22, 2017 A demonstration of genius was anticipated and well received when American violinist Joshua Bell playing his 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin with an 18th century François Tourte French bow, led the Academy of St Martin in…
Album Review: Bach | Beethoven: Fugue/ Australian Chamber Orchestra/ Tognetti
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s new album release Bach | Beethoven: Fugue on ABC Classics, couples the contrapuntal writing of Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, highlighting their similarities, whilst contrasting the styles in which they were written. Richard Tognetti leads his ensemble of 20 musicians, augmented with players from the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony…