The week’s concerts in review…

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven and R Strauss:
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Venice Secrets:

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven and R Strauss:
The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Venice Secrets:
Opera Australia has announced that Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen will conduct the Melbourne production of Wagner’s ‘Ring’ later this year. Here’s the full statement issued earlier today: “Opera Australia has appointed the outstanding young Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen as the new conductor for The Melbourne Ring Cycle 2013. Mr Inkinen will join Opera Australia at…
The International Tchaikovsky competition held every four years in Moscow, is one of the most exacting and exalted music competitions. Inaugurated in 1958, past winners in its four categories of piano, violin, cello and voice have included Vladimir Ashkenazy and John Ogden( shared, 1962, piano), Gidon Kremer (1970, violin), Deborah Voigt (voice 1990). The XIVth International Tchaikovsky…
The Australian Singing Competition has announced the names of the adjudicators who will assist National Adjudicator, Patrick Togher, over the coming year of the 2023 competition.
Mary Jo Capps Musica Viva CEO Mary Jo Capps was last week awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Melbourne, for her contribution to music and to the university. Music Viva has kindly shared the text of Ms Capps’ speech which sheds an invaluable perspective on how we participate in the arts and its…
The Managing Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Matthew VanBeslen, discusses new ways of sustaining “classical” music. (See post on “Where To Next For Symphonic Music?”) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/orchestras-strike-chord-with-their-communities/story-e6frg8n6-1226071948052
The Marais Project’s May concert is a collaboration between Marais Project Director, Jenny Eriksson and leading young Australian actor, writer and film maker, James Fraser (The Water Diviner, The Devil’s Playground and The Turning) to create Master and Pupil, a new musical-theatrical event. Together, they have formulated a series of penetrating and moving reflections in words and…