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Brisbane Baroque Announces 2015 Programme
Book your flights to Brisbane because from April 10th – 18th, Brisbane will be seeped in the music of the Baroque with the relocation of Hobart’s Baroque festival to the more northern state capital, in the inaugural Brisbane Baroque Festival. The highlight of the festival is Handel’s three act opera Faramondo, his late masterpiece, presented in…
Four Winds Festival Announces New Artistic Leadership Team
The Four Winds Festival announces the appointment of a brand new Artistic Leadership team for their next biennial festival in 2016. Paul Dean and Yarmila Alfonzetti have been appointed as the new figures who will head the festival into the future. With outstanding reputations in the classical music industry and music education, both Paul and Yarmila bring extensive…
Aida Look Book
Giuseppe Verdi’s Orientalist masterpiece Aida opens on Sydney Harbour on Friday April 27th for a 4 week run. Presented by Opera Australia, this year’s Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour is directed by Gale Edwards and stars Latonia Moore and Daria Masiero sharing the role of Aida. Here are some images from the production. Scroll down…
Lamorna Nightingale talks Ensemble Offspring’s Sizzle
Flautist Lamorna Nightingale is a core member of Ensemble Offspring, a dynamic and popular New Music ensemble in Sydney. This Sunday, Ensemble Offspring presents Sizzle an informal presentation of a spectrum of music from art music to pop and a bit of everything in between. In this feature, Lamorna Nightingale writes of the universal appeal of…
Anne Boyd receives the 2014 Bernard Heinze Award
The University of Sydney’s Professor Anne Boyd AM has received the 2014 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to music in Australia. The award was presented to Professor Boyd at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music 2015 Chancellor’s Concert on Friday 21 March by the University of Melbourne’s Professor Barry Conyngham. Boyd…
Coastal A Cappella Wins Short + Sweet Voices Festival
After hotly contested preliminary rounds involving almost 30 a cappella (unaccompanied) choirs, ten choirs entered the finals of the Short + Sweet Voices Festival held at the Concourse Theatre, Chatswood, last weekend. Performing in every sort of musical genre and style and in ensembles of all sizes, from quartets to more than 50 singers, the…
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Concert review: Fearless Italian Baroque Violin/ Riccardo Minasi/Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Fearless Italian Baroque Violin Soloist and guest director by Riccardo Minasi October 29, 2015 City Recital Hall, Sydney Playing on an Amati violin from Cremona that is over 300 years old, Baroque specialist Riccardo Minasi performed a selection of rarely heard Neapolitan orchestral gems directing the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra from the…
CD Review: Pictures At An Exhibition/ Simon Tedeschi
On his new recording Pictures at an Exhibition for ABC Classics, pianist Simon Tedeschi combines two works from the Russian piano repertoire which share their status as masterworks, but which are at opposite ends of the spectrum of complexity. First on the CD is Mussorgsky’s suite of 10 pieces, from which the recording takes its…