He grabbed a worldwide audience during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics and has had a 40 year career at the pinnacle of performance. Sadly, cellist Julian Lloyd Webber played his final public performance on May 2nd.
A slipped disc has caused the 63-year-old musician to call an end to public performing. The Guardian reports that he has made two recordings to be released later this year and that he will chair Sistema England.
Grigory Sokolov has a new album Beethoven Brahms, out now on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Three years after his last recording, Sokolov returns with a 31-track double album of live recordings from his triumphant 2019/20 tour. Included on the double album are Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 3 and the Bagatelles opus 119 along with Brahms’…
As the world remembers fallen soldiers this week and the year marks the centenary of WW I, conductor Marin Alsop writes about the enduring power of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and why it is unique amongst sacred works. Click here to read.
Congratulations to 23-year-old Jeremy Boulton winner of the Marianne Mathy Scholarship (‘The Mathy’).
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It was not so long ago that we heard with heavy hearts, that the SBS Youth Orchestra was to be disbanded in 2013 after 25 very successful years of performing, touring and nurturing young musicians. Out of this ending though, came a new beginning with the formation of a new symphony orchestra for young musicians…
Eleven composers from Australia and New Zealand are the recipients of the Art Music Fund, with each receiving a $5,000 grant towards the commission of a proposed work.