A $400 million upgrade is planned for the Sydney Opera House, reports Matthew Westwood in The Australian.
Does this plan place too much competition on the venue to live up to expectations as a tourist facility as well as a centre for the arts and its ensembles in residence?
The Australian pianist Roger Woodward has been awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture, Gloria Artis, gold category, by the Polish government – the highest award for contribution to Polish culture. This is Wooward’s fourth award for his services to Polish culture. Roger Woodward’s interpretation of the music of Chopin, his promotion of Polish culture, his services to…
Last week APRA/AMCOS announced its annual Art Music Awards winners for 2012. The awards acknowledge achievement in the composition, performance, education and presentation of Australian music. There are ten national awards and several State Awards which include these categories as well as outstanding contributions by individuals and organisations in Australian music, music education and regional music. The Art Music Awards were…
The Australian Haydn Ensemble has today announced that Jacqui Smith, arts manager, writer and consultant, has been appointed as its Chief Executive Officer, effective 10 July 2023.
A performance of Brett Dean’s Grawemeyer Award winning composition “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” in London, has been warmly received. Featured in a recent BBC Total Immersion day at the Barbican Centre, the four movement concerto for violin and orchestra was composed in 2006 and won the award in 2009. The concerto was premiered by the…
Gondwana Choirs invites choral educators of all ages and levels of experience to step behind the rehearsal room door and get to know their artists, their expertise and their passion for their area of specialty, in small one hour interactive zoom classes from the comfort of home. The weekly 1 hour workshops are limited to…
Baritone David Greco and keyboard player Erin Helyard at the piano, present the first Australian recording of Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise with a period piano. Schubert’s Winterreise is one of the greatest song cycles ever written. Completed shortly before his death at just 33, it follows a young man, who spurned by his beloved, wanders through a…