Check out these eight stunning images of the Cobar Sound Chapel, co-created by sound artist, composer and violinist Georges Lentz and prize-winning architect Glenn Murcutt. Opens 2 April, 2022. Images courtesy Georges Lentz.
Applications to audition for the Sydney Youth Orchestra in 2020 close next Monday 23 September. Click here to find out more and apply. Sydney Youth Orchestras rehearses weekly with over 550 young musicians aged 6-24 years from all over Sydney and New South Wales. The leading orchestral training and education provider in New South Wales,…
Max Richter has a new single River (It’s Coming On Christmas), a short piano solo built on the opening notes of Jingle Bells and played in the tinkling upper register of the piano. The theme floats over some familiar chordal progressions and lasting just 2.42 minutes is pleasant seasonal fare available of Spotify. Max Richter…
The late neurologist Oliver Sacks described a patient with Alzheimer’s who had little recollection of his life, but who remembered the baritone part to almost every song he had ever sung. “Music,” said Sacks, “was one of the only things that kept him grounded…” For many who were immersed in music during school years, entry…
The history of the piano trio will be traced through time with ABC Classic and Seraphim Trio in Trio Through Time, as they reveal a panoramic musical journey over four centuries. Pianist Anna Goldsworthy, violinist Helen Ayres and cellist Timothy Nankervis will perform trios from Mozart to Sculthorpe, beginning on 1 September and running for…
Sydney’s star-gazers could be forgiven for an element of confusion over the next couple of weeks as not one but two moons and two suns float over Sydney harbour. The two gleaming orbs are part of Handa on Sydney Harbour’s 2014 production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly which opens of Friday March 21st and runs every…
Innovative Icelandic composer, musician and producer Ólafur Arnalds has teamed up with Australia-born, LA-based singer, songwriter, and electronic producer RY X to create the ethereal, beat-driven vocal track ‘Oceans’, out on Mercury KX on January 31. Using a sample from Ólafur’s original composition ypsilon as the basis of the new track, RY X has written…