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.
Click here to read Richard Gill’s 2015 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address.
What: R. Wagner – Das Rheingold, Part One of The Ring of the Nibelung When: Sunday 7 February 2021, 4 pm AEST Where: Melbourne Digital Concert Hall/ Regent Theatre, Melbourne Who: Melbourne Opera Melbourne Opera proudly presents a brand new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold – Part One of The Ring of the Nibelung. This…
Recently the music world mourned the death of conductor Sir Colin Davis, a world figure in his field and the longest serving conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. At 85, he was due to conducted a BBC Proms concert this year. Taking over the baton for this concert by the LSO will be Daniel Harding whom we will see in…
In his latest album Mozart & Contemporaries, Icelandic pianist of Víkingur Ólafsson presents some of his favourite Mozart keyboard works in the company of pieces by a selection of the composer’s leading contemporaries.
orchestra seventeen88 The Chapel of Santa Sabina College, Strathfield 9 August 2014 The launch of a new orchestra is always a risky business. Three years ago the Orchestra Romantique was formed for historically informed performances of music of the Romantic period but it gave only a few performances before its disappearance at the end…
Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera Erin Helyard has written his debut book, Clementi and the woman at the piano.
Music from the world of two iconic artists, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is soon to be released on CD and digital by ABC Classics. The release coincides with an exhibition of the works of these inextricably linked artists, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. From the traditional mariachi of Mexico to the…