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.
A year after the untimely death of soprano Amanda Thane, ARTSONG NSW, the organisation she founded in 2009 and of which she was Artistic Director, keeps her legacy alive with new leadership and a new venue. Under the direction of its new President, Andrew Greene, and Vice-President, John Martin, the concerts will be held in the splendid surroundings and acoustic of the Independent…
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge directed by Stephen Layton tours Australia this July for Musica Viva. Stephen Layton is one of the leading choral directors of our time. For this tour they will perform one of the 20th-century’s most beautiful choral works: the 1922 Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir by Frank Martin and a rich cache of…
The Australian Haydn Ensemble, under the Artistic Direction of Skye McIntosh, with Guest Director and fortepiano soloist Erin Helyard and solo cellist Daniel Yeadon presents the timeless music of Haydn and Music. Dr Erin Helyard, one of Australia’s finest keyboard players, expert in historically-informed performance and respected musical director and co-director of Pinchgut Opera, leads this jubilant concert…
World-renowned shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) master, Riley Lee, has joined forces with the Enigma Quartet in Five Elements, an ambitious commissioning and performance project to create an entirely new genre of music that blends Japanese with European music. They will perform in November as part of the popular monthly Prelude in Tea series at North…
The Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by its Musical Director Paul Stanhope performs two vividly contrasting Eastertide settings of Christ’s final words on the cross. James MacMillan’s dramatic cantata Seven Last Words from the Cross delivers a powerful Easter message, alongside a sublime contemplative setting by the German Baroque master Heinrich Schütz. Themes of sorrow and redemption…
Take your mind back to the opening scenes of the movie ‘Amadeus” and its electrifying music – Mozart’s Symphony No 25 in G minor, K 183. The Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra under the baton of its Chief Conductor Sarah – Grace Williams performs this symphony, along with the effervescent Holberg Suite by Grieg and Bizet’s Symphony…