The new look Australian String Quartet’s Sydney concert reviewed:
The Guardian’s Tom Service asks if Stephen Sondheim might be our greatest composer:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2012/mar/16/sondheim-sweeney-todd-music-theatre
Recording label Eloquence has launched a new website EloquenceClassics.com. The world-wide label established in 1999 is dedicated to the reissue of a vast backlog of recordings, the focus being on recordings not yet released beyond their vinyl format. The label has nearly 1000 titles in its catalogue. Reissues for 2017 will include material from the rich…
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….
ARIA award-winning a capella vocal quartet The Idea of North has announced a change in line-up as soprano Sally Cameron and co-founder and bass Andrew Piper have decided to leave the ensemble to pursue other goals and interests. Sally Cameron has been with the group for 10 years and Andrew Piper co-founded the group as…
Percussionist Timothy Constable is to step down as Artistic Director of Synergy Percussion after 7 years in the role. He will pursue other creative opportunities in solo music, composition and with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, as Ian Cleworth steps in as Interim Artistic Director of the ensemble. Timothy joined Synergy Percussion 14 years ago in 2003 when…
Perfect for entertaining children, grandchildren, nephews or nieces – there is a family pass for four people up for grabs for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday July 14 at 1 pm. Click here for more information on what promises to be an lively multi-media show….
Opening tonight in the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House is Opera Australia’s sumptuous production of La Traviata. This revival of Elijah Moshinsky’s vision of Verdi’s enormously popular opera is directed by Roger Press. Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho opens in the role of Violetta Valéry later sung by Lorina Gore and Emma Matthews. …