You either have it or you don’t – a recent study of 1500 pairs of twins from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute suggests that practising an instrument without a natural gift for it is of little or no value.
Read the feature in The Economist
If you’re planning to see the Royal Opera’s cinema version of Bellini’s Norma which opens in Sydney this weekend then this feature from The Guardian is essential background reading. The opera is directed by Àlex Ollé from La Fura dels Baus and is conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano with Sonya Yoncheva as Norma and Jospeh Calleja…
Orchestra Victoria, the Melbourne based orchestra scheduled to play for the Melbourne Ring Cycle and which plays for the Australian Ballet, Opera Australia and the Victorian Opera, is under review. The Australian reports: Click here to read.
Benjamin Britten’s (22 Nov 1913 – 4 Dec 1976) towering multi-layered musical statement, the War Requiem, opus 66, is to be performed in Sydney, by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy on November 8th and 9th at the Sydney Opera House. Premiering on May 30th, 1962, the work was commissioned to commemorate the consecration…
The West Australian Symphony Orchestra has appointed a new Principal Conductor to succeed Paul Daniel who ends his contract next year. Asher Fisch is no stranger to Australia having worked here in 2004, conducting Adelaide’s production of The Ring. Since 2007, Asher Fisch has been Seattle Opera’s Principal Conductor. He is a former music director…
To celebrate World Migratory Bird Day on May 9th 2020, the Bowerbird Collective, comprising violinist Simone Slattery and cellist Anthony Albrecht created Invisible Connections a concert experience like no other: a musical and visual journey from the continental shores and archipelagos of Australasia to the tundra of Siberia and Alaska, tracing the awe-inspiring odyssey of…
This month, the 2018 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows will embark on the first international Fellows tour in the Orchestra’s Fellowship history. From 13-19 October to China, the Fellows will be guests of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting, Television, Press and Publication, as part of the annual 2018 Nanjing Art Festival in Nanjing. Led…