Named in 2009 as one of the top 20 living polymaths, Stephen Hough talks about his main preoccupation – happiness – both for himself and bringing it to others through his music.
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The Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) invites instrumentalists and singers everywhere to be a part of the biggest orchestra in Australia, the 2019 AMEB Online Orchestra. The AMEB has chosen I am Australian, written by Bruce Woodley AO and Dobe Newton, is the chosen song for this project. This year’s project follows the success of last year’s…
Clarinet virtuoso Martin Frost is looking to push the boundaries of the traditional performance and has created a multi-media symphonic work Dollhouse which was premiered by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in 2013. Dollhouse combines a symphonic performance of the music of Stravinsky, Hillborg, Dukas, Sørensen, Göran Fröst and de Falla with choreography and lighting design. (Link to trailer below). Frost…
The board of the Birgit Nilsson foundation has announced that the 2014 Birgit Nilsson Prize has been awarded to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The tri-ennial prize which is being awarded for only the third time in history, is a purse of $1 million for outstanding achievement in opera, concert, Lieder or oratorio. Previous winners are Placido…
Shauna Beesley wins the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2024, for her work, Journey, as announced by the Music Performance UNSW.
The orchestra pit of the Opera Theatre in the Sydney Opera House wasn’t big enough to accommodate the 86 orchestral musicians required for Opera Australia’s present production of Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”. Answer: take them off-site and link them to the theatre with video and acoustic technology. Matthew Westwood of The Australian has the full story: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/pits-not-up-to-it-so-piped-musics-the-go/story-fn9d2mxu-1226409545488
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…