Grammy Award winning New Zealand born bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu (he’s sung Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for OA in Sydney) has had to meet a new challenge – that of learning a libretto in Chinese. He talks about it in this blog.
(The Grammy Award was in 2010 for Best Opera Recording Billy Budd)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/mar/26/learning-to-sing-chinese-songs
If you missed Omega Ensemble’s live from the Sydney Opera House, you can now watch the world premiere of Gordon Kerry’s Clarinet Quintet on-demand, broadcast from the Joan Sutherland Theatre to your living room. Composed in five movements, performers David Rowden (clarinet), Anna Da Silva Chen (violin), Tim Yu (violin), Neil Thompson (viola) and Paul…
Super-star soprano soprano Renée Fleming joins forces with Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the piano in this new release on the Decca label. Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene Exploring the relationship Romantic composers had with nature through song, the tracklist incudes the music of Fauré, Hahn, Grieg, Liszt, and the world premiere of a work by Nico Muhly. …
The Opera and Song Collective (TOSC) presented an appealing program of sacred vocal music curated by mezzo-soprano Jill Sullivan, under the musical direction of Simon Kenway with Jassen Rose at the pipe organ.
Applications are now open to emerging musicians and composers from NSW for the second biennial Peter Sculthorpe Music Fellowship. Offered in honour of the internationally renowned composer, the $30,000 fellowship is offered every second year by Create NSW and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, in partnership with representatives of the Peter Sculthorpe Trust. This…
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
Pianist Rob Hao returns to Sydney from London for his inaugural solo tour of Australia which will include a performance at the Utzon Room in April. The concert will include the Australian premiere of Sydney-based Australian composer Nicholas Vines’ Indie Ditties. From London, Hao gave us some insights into his career thus far and we speak with Nick Vines about his intriguing piece, Indie Ditties.