Kissin’s Australian debut
Matthew Westwood reviews Kissin’s Sunday night Brisbane performance.
Matthew Westwood reviews Kissin’s Sunday night Brisbane performance.
Beautiful black and white images from the rehearsals of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s current season of Venice Secrets. The season continues at the City Recital Hall. https://www.soundslikesydney.com.au/shows/the-australian-brandenburg-orchestra-reveals-secret-venice/6281.html Images taken by Steven Godbee and reproduced with his kind permission.
Part 1 of two-part interview with emerging Australian conductor Jennifer Condon. Nearly 12 months ago, 28 year old Jennifer Condon visited Sydney to garner support for a project fired by a passion that has burned in her for the best part of a decade. During her final year of school in Sydney, she heard a fragment of…
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on experiment conducted by a researcher at the University of Paris which casts doubt on the superior qualities of violins made by the Italian masters. At the proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, Professor Claudia Fritz and her colleagues reported on their double blinded trial in which 21 violinists attending…
Congratulations to the winners and all the nominees in the 2025 Art Music Awards!
Musica Viva Australia’s Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition finalists comprise fourteen ensembles from around the world.
Maurice Ravel’s Boléro features it prominently, as do Donizetti’s Una furtiva lagrima, the overture to The Marriage of Figaro, and more comical music like the grandfather’s theme in Peter and the Wolf, Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and R Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. Stravinsky scored it in The Rite of Spring and the Firebird Suite. Now it seems the bassoon is going out of fashion and virtuoso bassoonist…