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  For The Idea of North, 2013 marks 20 years since they began to compose, arrange and perform music in a style…

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony has flashed past for 2013. The 8 awards for classical music out of  a total of…

  If you’re travelling to Europe between now and April, an exhibition by the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation sounds like a good excuse…

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, composed in 1723, is so ‘accessible’, it has suffered the fate of overexposure. Its four heady concerti pass through  summer, autumn, winter,…

Ever wished homicide on the audience member who leaps to his feet (and it’s usually a ‘he’) shouting “Bravo!!!” even before the sounds of…

Two recent cinema releases focus on the dynamics amongst classical musicians. Click here to read the New York Times feature on Quartet, directed by…

  It makes sense to be good friends with people you have to work with. Especially if they are people whose characters…

              Il Trovatore is being performed in the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera…

Sound Recordist Chris Watson has spent a year immersed in the countryside around Benjamin Britten’s home in Suffolk, recording and listening to…

Sydney based pianist Sally Whitwell has created a finely crafted niche for herself as an exponent of the solo piano music of…