The Secrets Of The Harpsichord Maker

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.

“Music was like an extra language in our family, one we all spoke.”  The world-famous cellist Steven Isserlis comes from a long line of musicians. His Russian grandfather was accepted into the Moscow Conservatoire aged just 10. Steven Isserlis talks to the New Statesman about the pleasures and pressures of coming from an intensely musical…

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/versatile-schultz-finds-it-pays-to-go-by-the-book-20110920-1kjfk.html

Orchestra Victoria, the Melbourne based orchestra scheduled to play for the Melbourne Ring Cycle and which plays for the Australian Ballet, Opera Australia and the Victorian Opera, is under review. The Australian reports: Click here to read.