The Sydney Opera House, Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and Pacific Opera will present a number of concerts featuring young classical musicians and opera singers, showcasing the rising stars of Australian classical music. In the first of these concerts for 2017, up-and-coming artists from ANAM and Pacific Opera under the artistic direction of Simon…
Earlier this month, clarinet player Lloyd Van’t Hoff from Brisbane, won the prestigious 2015 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, playing Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Johannes Fritzsch at Federation Concert Hall in Hobart. As the dust settles from his career-making win, Lloyd admitted to SoundsLikeSydney what he thought…
Synaesthesia is a feature of the human nervous system that causes a blending of the senses where one sense can be experienced as another. Colours can be experienced as letters and numbers, hearing music can trigger smells or tastes, touch can stimulate vision. Only 1 in 2000 people experience the phenomenon of ‘synaesthesia’….