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The Marais Project Releases New Album Australian Monody
The Marais Project, one of Australia’s most intriguing early music ensembles, releases a disctinctive and typically eclectic new album next month, Australian Monody and it will celebrate this release with a concert launch.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner Records St John Passion For Deutsche Grammophon
Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to record J S Bach’s St John Passion, BWV 245, for Deutsche Grammophon, more than thirty years after he first recorded this work for Archiv Produktion.
Kats-Chernin In Finals Of Australian Women In Music Awards
Congratulations to Elena Kats-Chernin who has been nominated in two categories of the Australian Women in Music Awards. Winners announced in May in Brisbane.
Pinchgut Opera Announces New Taryn Fiebig Scholar
Perth-born tenor Louis Hurley has been named as the first Humanity Foundation Taryn Fiebig Scholar.
Nicholas Vines And Rob Hao On Vines’ Indie Ditties
Pianist Rob Hao returns to Sydney from London for his inaugural solo tour of Australia which will include a performance at the Utzon Room in April. The concert will include the Australian premiere of Sydney-based Australian composer Nicholas Vines’ Indie Ditties. From London, Hao gave us some insights into his career thus far and we speak with Nick Vines about his intriguing piece, Indie Ditties.
Blackheath Chamber Music Festival
Blackheath Chamber Music Festival returns in April 2022 for a busy 4-day ANZAC weekend of exquisite classical music, featuring some of Australia’s outstanding artists, sourced nationally, internationally and locally.
Latest reviews
Concert Review: Haydn’s Creation/Australian Haydn Ensemble
The Australian Haydn Ensemble celebrated its tenth anniversary with a with a resplendent performance of Josef Haydn’s 1798 hero oratorio, The Creation, in collaboration with exceptional vocal soloists, an augmented ensemble of period and replica instruments and the Sydney Chamber Choir, all under the direction of Roland Peelman.
Concert Review: Indie Ditties/ Hao
Hao rose to every challenge spectacularly, acquitting the cycle with panache and tenderness where appropriate; he made an excellent first case for Vines’ Indie Ditties, which should by most metrics be destined for a well-deserved place in the Australian piano canon.