On July 27th baritone Morgan Elliot Pearse will perform Schubert’s Winterreise, D 911 with pianist Chad Vindin. Later this year, he’ll undertake a different winter’s journey of sorts, and move to London where he will undertake a Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music. Unlike Winterriese, this journey is about the ascent of a career rather than the descent into despair. One…
Eight divertimenti, ten plague choruses and a bunch of fiercely talented Year 12 students. Put them together and you have the programme for the Annual Concert to be given by students of the Conservatorium High school this weekend. Bernstein composed the 8 Divertimenti to commemorate the centenary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Stravinsky wrote Symphony…
“An opportunity to shake hands across the centuries”. So says conductor Jonathan Grieves-Smith, who will be travelling from Melbourne to conduct the Sydney Chamber Choir in their concert “Bach to the Future” this weekend. Anchored by three of JS Bach’s immortal motets (“Komm, Jesu, komm”, “ Singet dem herrn ein neues lied” , and “Lobet…