New strings take their bows
The Australian String Quartet has two new players.
The Australian String Quartet has two new players.
This is a re-post of our April 2014 interview with the late Richard Gill AO. In memoriam. “Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director” – Michael Tilson Thomas. In the case of Richard Gill, OAM, the…
Hearts sank at the end of last year when the ABC announced that the annual ABC Young Performer Award which had run continuously since 1944, launching the careers of numerous musicians, was to be axed. After a hiatus of a year, the ABC has announced that the Young Performers Awards are to continue in a…
The anticipation was palpable as Opera Australia announced its 2013 season in the opera theatre of the Sydney Opera House today. Glittering in more ways than one, Taryn Fiebig and the ensemble whetted appetites with a larger than life rendition of Quando m’en vo from the video of the 2010 production of La Boheme, projected onto…
The Tinalley String Quartet has embarked on an exciting new chapter of recordings with the release today of an album containing the music of the two greatest protagonists in the French Impressionist movement: Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The album is being released to coincide with global commemorations of the 100th anniversary of Debussy’s death…
Stanford neuroscientist Thomas Südhof is one of three winners of the 2013 Nobel prize for medicine. Born in Germany, he was interviewed in the medical journal, The Lancet in 2010 when he said that his first choice of dinner companion would be Mozart. A bassoon player as well, he has applied his learning in music to his career in…
Check out these eight costume designs from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour’s production of Verdi’s Aida. Sopranos Latonia Moore and Daria Masiero will share the role of Aida. Directed by Gale Edwards with costume and set design by Mark Thompson, Aida will run from 27 March to 26 April 2015. All images are by courtesy of Opera Australia. …