Sir Mark Elder conducted La Traviata at Glyndebourne this year. The opera was already performed over 500 times during the 2012-12013 season.
In this feature in The Economist, he talks about keeping fresh, these staples of the repertoire.
The 2015 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music has been given to composer, pianist and scholar Larry Sitsky AM for his “significant and enduring contribution to Australian music.” The award will be made at the 2015 Art Music Awards ceremony on Tuesday 11 August. The recipient of the Distinguished Services to Australian Music award is…
The BBC has new initiative, BBC Music. To celebrate its launch, a bevy of 27 musicians from around the world and across genres gathered with the 80 strong BBC Concert Orchestra to record a cover version of the Beach Boys’ God Only Knows. Watch the video and test your skills by identifying all 27 starts…
Melbourne based pianist Hoang Pham, 28, took out the award for the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1, opus 23 at last night’s Grand Final held at the Melbourne Town Hall. He performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman. He wins…
The Tallis Scholars have many friends in Sydney through running their intensely enjoyable and informative summer schools and the many concert tours they have made. In 2013, they clocked up 40 years of performing. This week in London, they will perform their 2000th concert. Click here to read an interview with founder and director Peter…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Young Mannheim Symphonists youth orchestra training program will expand in 2020. In 2020, students can audition for the National Winter Academy – a week-long residential music camp in Sydney in July – and/or to attend one of the three state-based Young Mannheim Symphonists Intensives – five-day programs in Victoria,…
If you’re reading this, you’re amongst the first to check out the thrilling programme of music to be heard when the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and the fearless acrobatic ensemble Circa, join forces to present Spanish Baroque at Sydney’s City Recital Hall in May. Featuring traditional music alongside works by Albeniz, Vivaldi and de Merula, the…