International Choral Insights presents Practitioner’s View: How do you teach conducting? Why teach conducting?
Dr Karen Grylls is one of the central figures behind choral music in New Zealand. She is a teacher and mentor; an expert of choral conducting as a practitioner and a pedagogue. International Choral Insights will delve into her experiences and the ideas that have shaped how she does what she does as a teacher of conducting.
This weekend, three emerging soloists will compete for the title of 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year. Twelve finalists will have been whittled down to three during the course of this week when the young musicians have competed in recital and chamber music events. In the final, to be held on…
David Helfgott, one of Australia’s most cherished musicians performs a one-off recital of popular romantic works for piano in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Oscar wining film Shine, the film that catapulted Helfgott (played by Geoffrey Rush and directed by Scott Hicks), to worldwide fame. This matinée recital for piano lovers of all ages,…
The Sydney Schubert Society presents baritone Barry Ryan OAM and pianist Jeanell Carrigan performing Schubert’s immortal song cycle Winterreise (D911) one of the great Romantic masterpieces and a profound reflection of human fate. , Completed in the autumn of 1827, Winterreise left the composer in a state of exhaustion. According to reports, Schubert had been gravely ill for a long…
Blue Mountains composer Rowen Fox has written a chamber opera Chang’E and the Moon, which will premiere in April, performed by the next generation of emerging opera artists drawn from the Sydney Conservatorium Vocal and Opera Studies unit, and an orchestra of nine musicians. “In the mists of time and legend, Chang’E, Goddess of the Moon,…
In a rare soloistic performance, featuring one voice per part, the singers of The Song Company and Ironwood Chamber Ensemble will combine to present Johann Sebastian Bach’s magnificent Mass in B Minor BWV 232, a musical setting of the complete Latin mass. Widely regarded as the pinnacle of vocal music, this work is usually performed with a larger…
Tura New Music will bring Kimberley Echoes to ACT and NSW in November and December. The powerful cross-cultural celebration of Kimberley country and its people is the result of 5 years of development and regional and remote touring in the region. The tour kicks off in Darwin at the The Playhouse, Darwin Entertainment Centre at 7.30 pm on Wednesday…