Simone Young interviews

Simone Young returns to Australia at the end of July to conduct the Australian Youth Orchestra in Brisbane.
In this interview with the Sydney Morning Herald she talks about her tenure in Hamburg and her plans for the future:

Simone Young returns to Australia at the end of July to conduct the Australian Youth Orchestra in Brisbane.
In this interview with the Sydney Morning Herald she talks about her tenure in Hamburg and her plans for the future:
The eagerly anticipated new staging of Don Giovanni, directed by Sir David McVicar has opened in Sydney. Judging by its enthusiastic reception on opening night, it didn’t disappoint. One of Sydney’s favourite baritones, Teddy Tahu Rhodes reprised his role as the ‘Don’ – and who can forget his explosive, leather clad appearance on stage in the…
Playtime for a young Benjamin Grosvenor was less about manipulating a games console or donning mouthguard and shin pads. For him, ‘playtime’ meant time with his beloved piano – “the big shiny black thing in the music room – very exciting for a child”. This fascination took him from starting pianos lessons aged…
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….
The conroversy continues over Professor Adrian Walter’s appointment to the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts: http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=37ddbd1435657310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=Hong+Kong&s=News
The piano music of the late Peter Sculthorpe AO, OBE, Australia’s most recognised and revered composer, will be honoured in a 2-CD set to be released by ABC Classics on Friday September 5, 2014. The album, Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Solo Piano Music recorded by Tamara Anna Cislowska features Sculthorpe’s piano works composed between 1945 and 2011. Peter…
Víkingur Ólafsson continues his journey with the music of J S Bach with the release of a series of six new Bach singles.