ABC Classics celebrates the 60th birthday of pre-eminent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin with The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection, a 10 CD boxed set, also available as a digital collection, bringing together her iconic works with pieces recorded especially for this collection. Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan and successful composers working today, with a prolific…
The musicians of the Australian World Orchestra – 94 of Australia’s finest who work in orchestras in Australia and around the world – will return home for the fifth anniversary season of the Australian World Orchestra. The musicians of the Australian World Orchestra play in the world’s greatest orchestras both here and overseas, from the…
The Australian World Orchestra will celebrate its 5-year anniversary in 2016 with two performances conducted by Alexander Briger and Stanley Dodds. The programmes feature works by Beethoven, Dvorak, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin’s Concerto for 8 double basses The Witching Hour. Following the success of the 2015 season under Sir Simon…