The coveted Paul Lowin Prizes are being awarded again in 2013, and the winners will be announced in Sydney, on Monday October 28th, 2013. Presented by the Paul Lowin Trust and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), the awards are among Australia’s richest prizes for composition, with an Orchestral Prize of $25,000 and a Song Cycle Prize of…
Old and new violins are the stars of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s opening 2013 concerts in Sydney. Richard Tognetti plays his treasured 270-year-old Guarneri del Gesù violin as soloist in his favourite Mozart Violin Concerto (No.3) and leads the Australian Chamber Orchestra in symphonies by Mozart and Haydn. Australian composer Brett Dean joins the orchestra to…
Sydney gets a touch of the Grawemeyers with works by two of its composition award winners being performed over the next week. On Monday October 10th, the Sydney Symphony conducted by Richard Gill, performs Brett Dean’s Etudenfest.In 2009 Brett Dean was awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his 4 movement concerto for violin and orchestra The…