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…
The Australia Ensemble will begin its 2020 season with a powerful program, Storm and Tempest. Performing with guest artists, the ensemble will explore the tumult of stormy weather, tempestuous emotion, and the promise of new things rising from the ruins of the old. Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin channels a revolutionary spirit and the anarchy of…
Halcyon presents In Nature a concert featuring four world premieres by Larry Sitsky, Elena Kats Chernin, Melissa Hui and Madeleine Isaksson, the Australian premiere of Andrew Ford’s new song cycle, Nature and Matthew Hindson’s engaging Insect Songs, (also featured on our latest EP release Waves IV). The works, drawn from three continents and relationships old…