Winning young performer
Saxophonist Nicholas Russoniello wins the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award.
Saxophonist Nicholas Russoniello wins the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award.
Family musicals like Annie, Matilda, The Sound of Music, Wicked and Les Miserables are legendary and feature talented children who can combine music, drama and dance in a spectacular performance. Applause Musical Theatre Academy has five campuses across the North Shore and northern beaches (the newest at East Lindfield Public School opening this February), and gives…
The Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital dazzled Sydney audiences when he made his debut with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in 2014. Avital’s virtuosity and the unusual sound of the mandolin with the period instruments of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra – including the rarely heard lirone – had audiences enthralled. This extraordinary performance has been captured in…
These fabulous images are from Opera Australia’s production of Verdi’s A Masked Ball opens tonight in Sydney. A co-production with Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, La Monnaie in Brussels and the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet in Oslo, A Masked Ball is presented in association with Sydney Festival. This world première new was devised by La Fura del Baus, the Catalan theatre…
This is a really important feature from theatre critic Jane Howard, writing in The Guardian about the culture of arts criticism in Australia, the loss of “critical dialogue” and a plurality of views. It applies as much to music as it does to the theatre. A recommended read.
Available today is a new recording of Vivaldi’s vocal music Gloria, from the brilliant soprano Julia Lezhneva, with Argentinian counter-tenor Franco Fagioli and Swiss organist and conductor Diego Fasolis conducting the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera and I Barocchisti, today’s Vivaldi interpreters par excellence. These stars of the Baroque have collaborated to record Vivaldi’s Gloria in D major RV 589, his…
Named in 2009 as one of the top 20 living polymaths, Stephen Hough talks about his main preoccupation – happiness – both for himself and bringing it to others through his music. Click here to read the feature in The New Statesman.