Month: February 2023

Cellist Sophie Kauer, the Breakout Star of TÁR will release her debut EP in March on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

The Music Performance Unit at the University of New South Wales has announced that John Rotar is the winner of the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize for 2023, for his work, Songs about birds, forests, flowers and mountains.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre (AMC) are calling for members to nominate their peers for the Art Music Awards 2023.

Matthias Goerne, distinguished baritone and one of the most high-profile Schubertians of this generation, has recorded a selection of Schubert’s songs not in their original versions with piano but in orchestral arrangements by Alexander Schmalcz, Goerne’s accompanist of many years’ standing.

Two of the world’s greatest opera singers come to Sydney to perform in Adriana Lecouvreur, by Francesco Ciléa, an Opera Australia co-production with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Fundación Ópera de Oviedo. Making his role debut as Maurizio, Count of Saxony is the outstanding tenor, Michael Fabiano. Joining him on stage as Adriana is the incomparable soprano Ermonela Jaho.

Artistic Director of Pinchgut Opera Erin Helyard has written his debut book, Clementi and the woman at the piano.

András Schiff releases a 2 CD set entitled Clavichord playing the keyboard works of JS Bach on the clavichord.