Emerging Conductor Makes His Mark With Sydney Chamber Choir

Emerging Conductor Makes His Mark With Sydney Chamber Choir

There will be a bright young guest conductor stepping up to the rostrum when the Sydney Chamber Choir presents its programme German Romantics in April. Emerging conductor Sam Allchurch has curated a programme of some of his favourite choral music by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Schonberg for his debut with the popular Sydney vocal…

Liza Lim Appointed To Sydney Conservatorium Of Music

Liza Lim Appointed To Sydney Conservatorium Of Music

The highly-acclaimed Australian composer Liza Lim has joined the University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music to mentor and grow the reputation of women composers in this country. Liza Lim has been commissioned by some of the world’s pre-eminent orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, BBC Symphony, and Germany’s WestdeutscherRundfunk and SudwestRundfunk orchestras, and…

Young Singers Shine In The Festival of Summer Voices

Young Singers Shine In The Festival of Summer Voices

Gondwana Choirs, the nation’s highly respected choral training ground is in the thick of its National Choral School. With more than 300 young singers, composers and conductors hot-housing vocal repertoire over a fortnight, you could be forgiven for expecting unbridled cacophony. On the contrary, these emerging musicians will be formed into six choirs under the…