The Financial Review has published a collection of images of what the Sydney Opera House might have looked like. These are some of the entries that were displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in January 1957. The Sydney landscape could have looked so different!
The review of Brett Dean’s award winning violin concerto: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/letters-from-the-heart-a-heavenly-treat-for-the-ears-20111205-1ofdc. …and a conversation with Anne- Sophie Mutter http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/interview-annesophie-mutter-20111201-1o7i4.html
Piers Lane gave a mesmerising performance of Chopin by Candlelight in Sydney last week as part of a national tour. The transcendental experience was built on three elements – Piers Lane’s understated but brilliantly virtuosic style and sensitive playing, the achingly beautiful music of Chopin and the simple ambience created by the minimal lighting in…
ABC and Symphony Australia have announced the three Grand Finalists in the 2013 Young Performers Awards. They are 28 year old pianist Stefan Cassomenos, 15 year old oboeist Andrew Kawai, and pianist Hoang Pham also 28. All three finalists are from Victoria. Each contestant will perform a concerto of their choice with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Seaman. The three grand…
Conductor, musicologist and author Dr Paul Kildea has written a major book on the life of Benjamin Britten, to be published by Allen Lane on 7 February, 2013. In it, he claims that Britten suffered from syphilis which ultimately led to the cardiac failure from which he died. The composer apparently contracted the disease form…
Yesong Sophie Lee, just 12 years old has won the biennial 2016 Menuhin competition, held in London last month. It was the centenary of the competition whose Laureates include Australians Ray Chen, Susie Park and Grace Clifford, Germany’s Julia Fisher and Russia’s Alina Ibragimova. Charlotte Smith in The Strad asks whether competitions are defined more…
Classical and Contemporary Singing, Choirs, Piano, Instrumental Solos, Instrumental Groups, Music Composition, Speech and Drama and Dance – just some of the many categories in which you can test your talents in the 2019 Sydney Eisteddfod. Earlybird entries close at midnight tonight. Click here for details.