Category: News

An intriguing feature on how music is remembered when other aspects of memory are impaired. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/musicians-memories-wiped-except-for-notes-of-harmony-20111114-1nfid.html

Performing is a curious business. It regularly throws up conundrums and contradictions and one of those is the phenomenon of memory.  Dancers develop…

The Australian pianist Roger Woodward has been awarded the Medal for Merit to Culture, Gloria Artis, gold category, by the Polish government – the…

Music is ubiquitous. Its impact on our lives is vast and indefinable. Matthew Westwood reviews some of the current beliefs surrounding the effect of…

Murray Black of “The Australian”  reviews Anne Sofie von Otter’s Sydney concerts: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/mezzosopranos-double-bill-of-delights/story-fn9d2mxu-1226188092405

“The stuff of great artistry” says Mark Coughlan in The Australian: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/meyers-performance-the-stuff-of-great-artistry/story-fn9d2mxu-1226187063628

The music fraternity comments on Lyndon Terracini’s Peggy Glanville-Hicks address: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/director-slated-for-failing-to-cultivate-opera-audiences/story-fn9d2mxu-1226184016943 ….and Lyndon Terracini responds: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opera-in-search-of-an-audience/story-fn9l8bny-1226186191515

Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director of Opera Australia delivers the  2011 Peggy Glanville-Hicks address, and held each year by the New Music Network…