The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor David Robertson has nabbed a Grammy Award for best Orchestral Performance with his recording of John Adams’s City Noir and the Saxophone Concerto as conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
It is reportedly the second win in three years for an Adams recording and the seventh for the SLSO.
Congratulations Mr Robertson!
If you’ve ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus, a new academy in Sydney lets you indulge that aspiration without having to run away. Composer and producer Chloe Charody and her business partner violinist Sonja Schebeck have taken their experiences from their circus opera The Carnival staged in London’s West End and opened…
Sixteen year old Grace Clifford has won the coveted 2014 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, announced at the Grand Finals of the competition held in Adelaide last night. For her winning performance she played Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D, Op.61 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman at the Adelaide Town Hall. A formidably talented…
Ensemble Offsrping announces five emerging composers selected to participate in Ensemble Offspring’s 2023 Hatched Composer Intensive.
Stuck for a Mother’s Day present? Treat your mother to an innovative event that combines music and theatre which combines reflections in words and music, on the famous French novel and film Tous les matins du monde. Our friends at the Marais Project have double passes (worth $90 each) to their next concert, Master and Pupil…
Grappling in a sword fight with his clothes on fire whilst working as a stuntman is the most dangerous thing he has ever done, says Riccardo Massi. But has it prepared him for sharing the stage with a 60 metre long fire breathing dragon? Perhaps! The softly spoken spinto tenor is in Sydney preparing for…
We have three copies of a fabulous new CD to give away! Violinist Daniel Hope’s Spheres on the DG label is a brilliant compilation of 18 tracks of mostly 20th century music by Arvo Part, Philip Glass, Elena Kats-Chernin, Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei) and Alex Baranowski. Spotted by Yehudi Menuhin at the age of 11, Hope has he has…