Maxim Vengerov was appointed Menuhin Professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London, earlier this year. He has concerts coming up in Moscow, London, Baku, Lausanne and Munich – all in the next 2 weeks.
Click here to read his interview with Andrew Clark of the Financial Times.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s new album Bach: The Art of Life is due for release on 8n October 2021 by Deutsche Grammophon. In it, Trifonov explores “the scientific, emotional and spiritual dimensions of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cosmos, his faith, family, and world.” Centered around Bach’s monumental icon, The Art of Fugue, Trifonov also performs the sublime…
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Lang Lang plays a selection of exquisite French music on his new album Lang Lang – Saint-Saëns, due for release on 1 March on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
Counter tenor Nicholas Tolputt has won the 2016 IFAC Australian Singing Competition which includes the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarhip. Its a second triumph for the 25 year old Tasmanian who graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BMus in Voice and who now lives in Sydney. Just last month he won the 2016 City…
One hundred days of lockdown, budget cuts, end-of-financial-year donation drives tinged with an added note of passion and a desperately uncertain future for the performing arts. It was against this stark backdrop that Musica Viva Australia grasped the helm and convened a webinar, What’s Next for the Arts? anchored by its CEO, Hywel Sims, with…
In breaking news, SoundsLikeSydney can report that Melbourne-based tenor Shanul Sharma will make his German debut at the Staatsoper Hannover in September as M.K.Gandhi in Philip Glass’ opera Satyagraha.