Casting quotas in opera
OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini believes that quotas on the hiring of non-Australian singers should be lifted.
OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini believes that quotas on the hiring of non-Australian singers should be lifted.
Assistant Leader of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Satu Vanska talks to The Australian about Australia’s first Stradivarius. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/playing-favourites/story-e6frg8n6-1226084742141
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, at the University of Sydney, is pleased to be hosting the prestigious David Harold Tribe Symphony Award for 2016. Worth $12,000, resident Australian composers are invited to submit a new symphonic composition of 20 minutes or more, which will be judged by a panel of three prominent Australian musicians led by…
Pianist and Co-Artistic Director of Omega Ensemble Maria Raspopova, has released an album of Prokofiev’s Visions fugitives opus 22. The 20 movement cycle of piano pieces was recorded in May 2018 at the Cranbrook Recording Studio, produced by Philip Powers with recording engineer and mastering by Bob Scott and editing by Jonathan Palmer. Click here to listen/buy
Skye McIntosh takes up a Creative Residency at the State Library of NSW ahead of its bicentenary in 2026.
The news that Maestro Zubin Mehta is to conduct in Sydney in 2013 is nothing short of thrilling. The charismatic conductor ranks amongst the world’s greatest. Born and raised in India, his career has spanned both operatic and symphonic repertoire in the most famous ‘houses’ of the world, and has transcended national boundaries. He is Music…
Toby Thatcher has been appointed Assistant Conductor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The 26 year old is a graduate of the Conservatorium High School and trained as an oboist at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Click here to read the feature in the Sydney Morning Herald.