Trifonov Interviewed
In more news about pianists, the AFR has published this interview with 23 year old Russian protege Daniil Trifonov and ends the feature with a list of the very best 6 pianists who are not yet 35 years old.Guess who they are…
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…
Congratulations to tenor Manase Latu (23), who won the 2019 Marianne Mathy Scholarship (‘The Mathy’) in the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Prize, as well as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Prize with his performance of Tradito, Schernito from Mozart’s Così fan tutte. As part of The Mathy, Manase Latu also received Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan…
Composer Philip Glass is interviewed this week by The Guardian’s Laura Barnett. He talks about fame, inspiration and people he would like to work with. Click here to read.
In a home in the northern outskirts of Sydney lies a truly remarkable collection of period keyboard instruments. Nestled near the natural bushland at Berowra Heights, Ralph Schureck has assembled some thirty-five instruments, making The Schureck Collection the largest collection of concert quality early keyboards in Australia. Instruments from before 1780 are accurate copies…
The Australian String Quartet and the Ngeringa Farm Arts Foundation launch a fund to own outright the four precious Guadagnini instruments presently played by the quartet – the first and only ensemble in Australia that plays instruments crafted by the same person. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/four-fabulous-rarities-bridge-the-centuries-20120523-1z5m3.html
A new suite of vinyl reissues celebrating the legacy of the late indigenous Australian songwriter Gurrumul (1971–2017) has been released by Decca and Universal Music.