The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has a new chief executive. Andre Gremillet comes to the MSO after serving as president as chief executive of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 2007.
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Can’t decide what music to play over the Festive Season? Here are some suggestions from our recent reviews of albums that feature both sacred and secular selections to help create the festive mood! A Very Brandenburg Christmas – the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra is joined by soprano and bandura player Larissa Kovalchuk, saxophonist Christina Leonard the…
“All music… is about the supreme expression of all mankind” Stephen Fry. Stephen Fry has been debating the relevance of classical music at the Cambridge University Union. In the 21st century, we have more access to more music, instantly. Are perople still listening to “classical” music? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13373628 Stephen Fry and DJ Kissy Sell Out exchange…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has again impressed on the international stage with its performance at the Edinburgh Festival, an achievement whose significance is swelled by the knowledge that performing at this hallowed event is strictly at the invitation of Festival Director Jonathan Mills. With Richard Tognetti directing from the violin, the concert was simulcast on BBC3 and included works…
Music has the incredible power to heal and to soothe. Building on this, Dr Catherine Crock, a physician at the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital established the the HUSH Foundation and working alongside other health professionals and musicians, she has curated numerous recorded collections of music that help to calm and soothe young patients, their families…
Sydney based chamber group Omega Ensemble has the opportunity to record its debut album with ABC Classics and is looking for support to make this a reality. The album will be a collaboration between Omega Ensemble and clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy and will include a work by George Palmer – It Takes Two, a concerto for…
The next week of free Nightly Opera Streams from The Metropolitan Opera features five powerful Italian dramas—including Lucia di Lammermoor, starring Natalie Dessay as the young bride driven to madness, as well as Dvořák’s haunting fairy tale Rusalka and Wagner’s epic Die Walküre. For more details, cast, notes and other resources and to donate, click…