The national cultural policy takes shape
Arts Minister Simon Crean is to announce a funding increase of 30% which will benefit 6 arts organisations. Matthew Westwood reports in The Australian.
Arts Minister Simon Crean is to announce a funding increase of 30% which will benefit 6 arts organisations. Matthew Westwood reports in The Australian.
Opera returns to the Joan Sutherland Theatre after the COVID-19 shut down in March 2020, with Opera Australia unveiling a four- production, three-month, COVID-safe season for 2021 that includes two debut productions for the company. This quartet of productions is intended to be the first of several for the year. Due to open on 5…
The HUSH Music Foundation has released its 13th album The Magic Island, which they say is the ‘boldest and biggest undertaking for the Hush Music Foundation yet.’ The Magic Island brings together the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with conductor Benjamin Northey performing the music of distinguished Australian compsosers who include Peter Sculthorpe AO OBE, Brenton Broadstock, Ross…
Sydney Youth Orchestras has announced the launch of the Richard Gill Chamber Orchestra which celebrates the legacy of the late Richard Gill, one of the most admired music educators of our time. Richard Gill was the Chief Conductor at SYO from 1977 -1982 and firmly believed that “every child should have the opportunity to learn and…
ABC Classics celebrates the 60th birthday of pre-eminent Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin with The Elena Kats-Chernin Collection, a 10 CD boxed set, also available as a digital collection, bringing together her iconic works with pieces recorded especially for this collection. Kats-Chernin is one of the most cosmopolitan and successful composers working today, with a prolific…
“The stuff of great artistry” says Mark Coughlan in The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/meyers-performance-the-stuff-of-great-artistry/story-fn9d2mxu-1226187063628
American mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard has been awarded a major opera prize, the Richard Tucker Award. The native New Yorker is a graduate of the Juilliard School and has won many awards including the Beverly Sills Award in 2011. She married bass-baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes in 2008. Click here for more from the New York Times….