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Joshua Adams Wins Isabel Menton Composition Prize
Joshua Adams from Perth has won the 2018 Isabel Menton Composition Awards as announced by the Australian Catholic University (ACU). The award is for unpublished and previously unperformed choral works, valued at $1,500. Adams’composition In Id Ipsum Invicem was selected ahead of God is with Us by Fiona Dyball from Melbourne who won $500. Samantha Allen-Craig from…
Flinders Quartet Releases Australian Chamber Music On ABC Classics
The Offering is a new album release from the Flinders Quartet and pianist Benjamin Martin. Flinders Quartet is one of Australia’s most poplar and highly respected chamber music ensembles. One of its aims is to further the development of Australian chamber music by commissioning and premiering new works by Australian composers: all four pieces on this disc…
Nicole Car And The Australian Chamber Orchestra Pay Homage To Heroines In A New Album
Australian soprano Nicole Car is one of the brightest stars in international opera and available from today is her second album Heroines, from ABC Classics, recorded live in concert with the Australian Chamber Orchestra directed and led from the violin by Richard Tognetti with a cameo solo by ACO Principal Violin Satu Vänskä. In April 2018, Nicole joined the…
Ensemble Offspring Calls For Applications To Hatched Academy And Women Composer Programs
Ensemble Offspring invites submissions from exceptional emerging composers and performers from around Australia for both their 2019 Hatched Academy and Noisy Women Commission. All applications due 12 October, 2018. Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched Academy enters its 6th year in 2019. This emerging artist development program is designed to provide practical experience to the next generation of innovative young…
Engagement Through Music – Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows Tour to China
This month, the 2018 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows will embark on the first international Fellows tour in the Orchestra’s Fellowship history. From 13-19 October to China, the Fellows will be guests of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting, Television, Press and Publication, as part of the annual 2018 Nanjing Art Festival in Nanjing. Led…
Carolyn Watson Conducting Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra Win A Place In American Music Contest
Congratulations to conductor Carolyn Watson and the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra who have achieved third place in The American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for the Performance of American Music competition, in the high school division. Their live recording of music by Mark O’Connor marked them out from applications received from across the United States. The American Prize…
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Album Review: Pastoral Fables – Works For Cor Anglais And Piano/ Oguey And Da Costa/ ABC Classics
Pastoral Fables, a new album from ABC Classics is a collection of eight Romantic works, mostly transcribed by Alexander Oguey for cor anglais and piano, performed by Oguey, cor anglais (Marigaux, Paris) and Neal Peres Da Costa, grand piano (Viennese action grand piano after an 1868 model by J B Streicher and reproduced by Paul McNulty)….
Concert Review: Musical Luminati ‘Bach in the Dark’/ Twilight Musical Dialogues
Twilight Musical Dialogues Musical Luminati ‘Bach in the Dark’ Adamstown Uniting Church Friday June 15th, 2018 Twilight Musical Dialogues hosted the second instalment of its 2018 ‘Musical Luminati’ series entitled ‘Bach in the Dark’. For this concert, flautist Sally Walker was joined by cellist Rachel Scott and featured young artist, oboist Christopher Pantelidis. They presented…