Musica Viva announces the launch of an exciting new initiative which aims to encourage more female composers in the Australian music landscape. It is named The Hildegard Project, after Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German Benedictine abbess, writer and composer who is known for her literary, musical and scientific works, and for her religious and…
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge directed by Stephen Cleobury CBE, tours to Sydney in July under the auspices of Music Viva. Sixteen boy choristers, fifteen choral scholars and two organ scholars will perform two programmes under the direction of Stephen Cleobury CBE, the Choir’s Director of Music since 1982. One programme is devised for…
Violonist Aiko Goto of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and koto master Satsuki Odamura perform a superb programme of Eastern and Western classical music which will include JS Bach’s Solo Sonata for Violin No. 2 in A minor, Yatsuhashi’s Six Variations, Sawai’s Dosei for Koto and Violin, Fujeida’s Patterns of Plants and a piece written for Odamura by the Australian composer Linsey Pollak, Pretang…