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Morgan Pearse Earns Praise As Yamadori for Houston Grand Opera
Sydney opera fans will remember baritone Morgan Pearse who is presently in Houston, engaged in the Houston Grand Opera’s Studio Programme which offers emerging singers with exceptional talent the opportunity to be a working member of the prestigious opera company whilst furthering their training. Morgan has been singing the role of Prince Yamadori in the…
Seong-Jin Cho Wins Chopin Piano Competition
Seong-Jin Cho from South Korea has been announced as the winner of the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition recently concluded in Warsaw. The 21-year old student of Michel Béroff at the Paris Conservatoire was in a field of ten finalists drawn from 450 applicants adjudicated by Dmitri Alexeev, Martha Argerich, Philippe Entremont, Nelson Goerner, Garrick Ohlsson and chaired…

Met Opera Live in HD Continues Nightly Free Streaming – The Week’s Program
The Met Live in HD continues to offer nightly streaming of its superlative productions. Here are this week’s performances, every evening at 7.30 pm each evening (US EDT). Watch via their website or on multiple devices through the Met Opera on Demand app. Monday, April 20: Strauss’s Elektra / With Nina Stemme, Adrianne Pieczonka, Waltraud Meier and Eric…

Sydney’s Inaugural Classical Guitar Festival Launches This Week
Sydney has a new music festival and this one is dedicated to the classical guitar! Sydney’s inaugural Classical Guitar Festival kicks off next Thursday 16th November and runs till Sunday 19th November. There are eight concerts featuring luminaries of the classical guitar world aong them, Guitar Trek, Australia’s most respected guitar ensemble, French super star Thibaut Garcia, Spanish…

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Releases ‘Elgar’
Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason last week released Elgar, a new album of works anchored by Elgar’s Cello Concerto – one of the best-known work in the cello repertoire which had the 100th anniversary of its first performance celebrated last year. Sheku recorded the cello concerto at Abbey Road Studios (famously opened by Elgar himself…
Hold The Sound – Are Downloads declining In Popularity?
Are music downloads declining in popularity with a return to the hallowed CD? The people who were surveyed in this feature seem to overwhelmingly prefer to spend their money on music they can hold.