Celebrating Strauss: Richard Gill, a celebration of life Sydney Youth Orchestra Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music 8 December 2018 Written by Deen Hamaker Australia lost one of its foremost champions of music education in Richard Gill AO in October 2018, who for over 40 years was at the forefront of music education in this…
Australian operatic baritone Peter Coleman-Wright AO and the four virtuoso saxophonists of the Nexas Quartet join international flautist Jane Rutter to perform Composers in Exile, a theatrical concert featuring exciting adaptations of cabaret works by composers from the Weimar Era to the Second World War. Dressed as composers Weill, Eisler, Schreker, Korngold, Stolz, with Jane…
Eight outstanding young vocalists have been selected to progress to the final of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship in their quest for prizes worth a total of $58,500 on offer for professional development. The 2017 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship Finalists are: sopranos Amanda Windred, Jessica Harper, Joelene Griffith, Imogen-Faith Malfitano and Zoe Drummond, mezzo-soprano Bronwyn…