Recently the music world mourned the death of conductor Sir Colin Davis, a world figure in his field and the longest serving conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. At 85, he was due to conducted a BBC Proms concert this year.
Taking over the baton for this concert by the LSO will be Daniel Harding whom we will see in Sydney when he tours with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in June.
Click here for the feature in The Independent.
The 2018 Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album goes to Crazy Girl Crazy featuring music By Gershwin, Berg & Berio performed by Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan with Orchestra Ludwig. Vale Dmitri Horostovsky, also nominated for the award. Other nominees: Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas — Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia;…
When: Wed Dec 16, 2020 Time: 8.30 pm Where: Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Bach Akademie Australia will present their third concert, Weihnachtsfreude on the stage of Melbourne Digital Concert Hall on Wednesday December 16 at 8.30pm in conjunction with presenting partner the National Art School. Join the Bach Akademie Australia for a program of Christmas…
Tom Service of The Guardian interviews brilliant 27 year old violinist Alina Ibragimova, describing her “trademark wildly imaginative playing, with its combination of unleashed energy and historical awareness”. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/oct/18/alina-ibragimova-violinist-rawness-energy
It is with great sadness that Australia awoke this morning to the news that Sir David Willcocks, the legendary conductor, organist and pedagogue, has died aged 95. It is impossible for any chorister not to have been touched by his work, whether through his recordings, arrangements, patronage or through firsthand experience of his conducting. “Sir…
Counter tenor Nicholas Tolputt has won the 2016 IFAC Australian Singing Competition which includes the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarhip. Its a second triumph for the 25 year old Tasmanian who graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BMus in Voice and who now lives in Sydney. Just last month he won the 2016 City…
Being a conductor has got to be one of the strangest of jobs! In the cascade of music that the audience comes to hear, the conductor makes not one sound; he touches no instrument. The audience doesn’t even witness the emotions of the maestro/maestra at work and indeed, some gestures may even be completely obscured. Tom Service…