The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has announed a major commissioning project supporting the future of Australian music. Called 50 Fanfares, this is a multi-season initiative which will see the Sydney Symphony commission and present the world premieres of new music by 50 Australian composers. The project has been designed to represent a broad range of Australian…
Ensemble Offspring presents its 2020 season launch and Hatched Summer School Concerts. Ensemble Offspring turns 25 in 2020, and to celebrate, they will perform all over Australia with a musical walking tour in Erskineville Village with Fever Pitch, music from the skies in Birdsong at Dusk, 90’s nostalgia in The Great Acceleration and a global…
Commemorating International Women’s Day today, ABC Classic is releasing Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers. This double CD is the first in a new series of recordings, celebrating Australian female composers. Australia has a celebrated history of women in music – Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland, Yvonne Kenny and Eileen Joyce in particular, loom large…