New strings take their bows
The Australian String Quartet has two new players.
The Australian String Quartet has two new players.
‘I believe sincerely that I can help my fellow human beings best by continuing the work I am most qualified to do by the nature of my gifts and training, ie the creation or propagation of music.’ Benjamin Britten 22/11/1913 – 4/12/1976
Simone Young returns to Australia at the end of July to conduct the Australian Youth Orchestra in Brisbane. In this interview with the Sydney Morning Herald she talks about her tenure in Hamburg and her plans for the future: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/funding-means-its-a-long-way-between-sydney-and-hamburg-20120622-20t5k.html http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/climbing-every-mountain-with-a-bit-of-metal-20120622-20t5h.html
Sydney Harmony Chorus is opening its doors – and its membership – ahead of the climax to its musical year: the Holiday Voices concerts at the Independent Theatre on 5 December. The all-male a cappella (unaccompanied) choir will hold an open rehearsal on Monday night 26 October where prospective new singers can ‘take a peek’….
If you missed the live events of this milestone in the history of Sydney, you can watch it on You Tube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYfrTvgYC7U
Imagine the excitement on the plane as the singers of the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir (GICC) take off to Vienna in May, on the first leg of Vienna – Cairns – Sydney, a two-stage collaboration between the two flagship children’s choirs of Austria and Australia. In 2017, Austria’s legendary Vienna Boys Choir and Australia’s Cairns…
Former Sydney Symphony Orchestra chief conductor David Robertson was a winner in the Best Opera Recording category for Porgy and Bess – a performance he conducted with the SSO in 2016!