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Double Passes To The Launch Of Elysian Fields
There are double passes on offer for the launch of Elysian Fields, a band featuring the electric viola da gamba alongside other modern instruments in the improvised music scene. Formed by renowned gamba player Jenny Eriksson, the ensemble includes Matt McMahon on keyboards, Matt Keegan on saxophones, Siebe Pogson on electric bass and Finn Ryan on drums with guest…
Lloyd van’t Hoff – 2015 ABC Young Performer of the Year
Clarinet player Lloyd Van’t Hoff won the prestigious Grand Final of the 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards over the weekend, performing Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch at Federation Concert Hall in Hobart. Now 24, Lloyd studied clarinet at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music graduating with Honours in 2011…
George Meets The Orchestra
Grab your kids, nieces, nephews and grandchildren and check out this captivating video from the Sydney Opera House, George Meets the Orchestra in which young George talks to the gifted members of the Sydney Youth Orchestra and conductor Brian Buggy OAM, as he discovers more about instruments and decides which one he is going to…
Alice Cooper On Narrating ‘Peter And The Wolf In Hollywood’
Despite an on-stage persona that was designed to shock, rocker Alice Cooper has demonstrated his softer side with his latest venture as narrator of Prokofiev’s children’s classic Peter and the Wolf (1936), given a 21st century twist as Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, an innovative, interactive, multi-media creation on Deutsche Grammophon. Cooper has been…
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Features in Bond Movie
Premiering in Sydney tonight is the eagerly anticipated new James Bond film Spectre – and the soundtrack has a very special Sydney connection. The film uses a track from a recording of Vivaldi’s music, made in Sydney in 2000 by German countertenor Andreas Scholl and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, conducted by its Artistic Director Paul Dyer. The track…
Richard Gill Delivers 2015 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address On The Case For New Music
Earlier this week, respected music director and educator Richard Gill OAM, delivered the 17th annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks address on the topic of “A Case for New Music” under the auspices of the New Music Network. In an erudite and passionate speech he argues the case for new music and for comprehensive music education in schools….
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CD Review: Nelson Friere Bach
Brazilian pianist Nelson Friere has added to his extensive discography with an album of selected works by JS Bach called Nelson Friere Bach. (Decca Classics 4788449). It is noteworthy because it is Friere’s first album dedicated solely to the music of Bach, it includes works written for the keyboard as well as transcriptions from other…
Concert Review: Stephen Hough/ Musica Viva
Stephen Hough Musica Viva April 16, City Recital Hall, Sydney On his third national solo tour for Musica Viva, pianist Stephen Hough presented a programme that was deeply introspective and austere in its sentiments but ultimately uplifting, inspired by the diametrically opposed inspirations of the sacred and the salon. Opening his programme was the Sonata…