Selby & Friends have released their 2018 recording of Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49 from their tour The Czech Connection, featuring pianist Kathryn Selby with guests Andrew Haveron (violin) and Timo-Veikko Valve (cello).
Opera Australia is offering a grab bag of once-in-a-lifetime experiences in its Annual Online Auction which is open on eBay until Sunday 15 December. All funds raised through the auction go towards Opera Australia’s Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program (YAP). The YAP is a two year training program for selected Australian opera singers and…
American mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has been awarded a major opera prize, the Richard Tucker Award. The native New Yorker is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has won many awards including the Beverly Sills Award in 2011. She married bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes in 2008. Click here for more from the New York Times….
The conductor Lorin Maazel has died at his home in Virginia aged 84. “By his 11th birthday he had already shared a podium with Leopold Stokowski, while the no less legendary Arturo Toscanini was responsible for getting Maazel his first steady conducting job in 1942, when Maazel was only 12.” More in The Guardian. …
Opera Australia is relaunching its NSW Schools Tour with Rossini’s hilarious opera ‘The Barber of Seville,’ on tour from March to September.
England’s King Richard III was found buried under a city car park and now it seems that the Weimar residence of J S Bach has met a similar fate. The foundations of the site in Weimar where JS Bach lived for 9 years (1708 – 1717) , where his sons Wilhem Friedemann Bach and Carl…
Hearts sank at the end of last year when the ABC announced that the annual ABC Young Performer Award which had run continuously since 1944, launching the careers of numerous musicians, was to be axed. After a hiatus of a year, the ABC has announced that the Young Performers Awards are to continue in a…