Stuart Skelton is presently appearing at the London Coliseum in the title role of Britten’s Peter Grimes, a role with which he has become synonymous. The David Alden production conducted by Edward Gardner will be broadcast live whilst being performed in front of its theatre audience of 2,500.
Read what Stuart Skelton says to BBC Music Magazine about the production and its season.
Some weeks ago we posted the link to a feature in the New York Times bout the destruction of pianos that no-one wanted to keep or maintain. Now the Sydney Morning Herald reports on a rapidly diminishing skill base of piano tuners. http://www.smh.com.au/national/scaled-back-dying-skill-a-note-of-concern-for-pianists-20120824-24rxj.html
American violinist and conductor Marin Alsop (b 1956) has blazed a trail as one of the world’s pioneering female conductors. In 2013 Ms Alsop made history as the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms in London’s Royal Albert Hall, the world’s largest classical music festival with an audience of over 40…
Perth-born tenor Louis Hurley has been named as the first Humanity Foundation Taryn Fiebig Scholar.
Decca Classics has released a landmark 32-CD set of the complete works of Béla Bartók, bringing together his monumental orchestral and stage works, folk music arrangements and piano works as well as chamber and solo instrumental works. At the heart of the collection lie some of the most legendary Bartók recordings made by artists intimately associated with his…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has appointed 13 leading young musicians from across Australia to its internationally renowned 2024 Fellowship program.
For Musica Viva, Australia’s oldest independent professional performing arts organisation, music education and artist development have occupied an important role alongside the world-class concerts it has presented since 1945. Its schools programme is the largest in the nation and has reached thousands of school students across the country. Now Musica Viva has announced the appointment…