The High Cost Of Underpaying Composers
Being a composer has never been an easy career. Judging from this feature in The Guardian, things are as difficult as they ever were for career composers.
Being a composer has never been an easy career. Judging from this feature in The Guardian, things are as difficult as they ever were for career composers.
The Australia Ensemble @UNSW, returns in 2015 with Raising Sparks, an exciting season of music curated by artistic chair Paul Stanhope. “A spark. The glimmer of something new – an idea full of infinite potential. The flame that illuminates and warms. A Catherine Wheel of delight” writes Stanhope. Highlights of the 2015 season include Beethoven’s…
Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi is in the middle of a seven concert series of Beethoven’s music with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After this, the 84 year travels to Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, San Diego and Chicago before returning to Europe in early May. He talks to David Mermelstein of the Wall Street Journal about Making Music in History’s…
You either have it or you don’t – a recent study of 1500 pairs of twins from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute suggests that practising an instrument without a natural gift for it is of little or no value. Read the feature in The Economist
Opera Australia (OA) today announced that the accessibility programme that offers first time opera-goers tickets for just $20 each has been extended into the 2020 Sydney and Melbourne seasons. This Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation Access Program has given more than 8,700 people the opportunity to experience an opera production for the affordable price of…
New Zealand tenor Jonathan Abernethy is the Opera Awards winner for 2014, as announced by Roland Gridiger, CEO of Music & Opera Singers Trust Ltd. Jonathan was selected by an eminent judging panel that included Dr Di Bresciani, Conal Coad, Rachelle Durkin and Gregory Hocking. Jonathan receives the Youth Music Foundation of Australia (YMFA) Award of $30,000, the…
Songwriters and composers at pivotal career stages are invited to apply for the 2026 APRA AMCOS Professional Development Awards (PDAs).