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Stuart Skelton Sings Around Australia
We’re stretching our boundaries to include some not-to-be-missed concerts around Australia – but sadly, not in Sydney – that feature one of Sydney’s favourite sons, tenor Stuart Skelton. Skelton performs with the eminent soprano Nina Stemme in highlights from Tristan und Isolde with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marko Letonja at the…
Five Sopranos And A Tenor – Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship Finals Concert
Written by Leona Geeves The Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship Concert was held in a flurry of frocks and very high notes on Sunday 16th October 2016 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Guest presenter, Peter Coleman-Wright AO, entertained with his expert knowledge of opera and quirky and amusing asides. The competition was adjudicated by…
Zoe Drummond Wins 2016 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship
Soprano Zoe Drummond from New South Wales has won the 2016 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship awarded by the Opera Foundation for young Australians (formerly Opera Foundation Australia). The six finalists performed in a public recital at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music last weekend, in the presence of His Excellency General, The Hon. David Hurley,Governor of NSW,…
‘HUSH16: A Piece Of Quiet’ Soon To Be Launched
Music has the incredible power to heal and to soothe. Building on this, Dr Catherine Crock, a physician at the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital established the the HUSH Foundation and working alongside other health professionals and musicians, she has curated numerous recorded collections of music that help to calm and soothe young patients, their families…
Jayson Gilham Releases Debut Album: Bach I Schubert I Chopin
Australian pianist Jayson Gilham has released his debut album Bach | Schubert | Chopin for ABC Classics. Gilham has had a dazzling career since his early days as a teenage piano student traveling 500 km in outback Queensland to attend weekly piano lessons. Now just 30 years old, Gilham moved to London in 2007 after graduating…
Avital And The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra On DVD
The Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital dazzled Sydney audiences when he made his debut with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 2014. Avital’s virtuosity and the unusual sound of the mandolin with the period instruments of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – including the rarely heard lirone – had audiences enthralled. This extraordinary performance has been captured in…
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Album Review: Brahms – Tones of Romantic Extravagance/ Ironwood
Ironwood, the Australian period instrument specialist ensemble has released a sumptuous new double album Brahms – Tones of Romantic Extravagance (ABC Classics), featuring two of Brahms’ major chamber works, the Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor opus 25 on disc one, and the Piano Quintet in F minor opus 34 on disc two. The…
Album Review: The Christmas Album/ Berlin Philharmonic
Christmas in Germany – Stollen, drifts of snow, centuries old Christmas markets, gluhwein, children busking singing ancient carols in glorious descants and the ubiquitous brass bands in the town squares. It is a time like no other and recreating this atmosphere is the compilation release The Christmas Album from the Berlin Philharmonic and Deutsche Grammophon,…