Sydney Children’s Choir Honours Bushfire Affected Communities With Music Video

The Sydney Children’s Choir has made a poignant music video of Ola Gjeilo’s The Ground, dedicated to the Australian communities affected by the devastating 2019/20 bushfire season. One year ago a member of the Sydney Children’s Choir and his family lost their home in the bushfires at Balmoral Village, NSW. The choristers rallied behind their colleague, intending…

Eureka Quartet Wins Musica Viva’s Lockdown Legends Competition

Congratulations to the Eureka Quartet! Musica Viva announced The Eureka Quartet as the winners of Lockdown Legends competition, a special initiative held for students who were unable to participate in the inaugural Strike A Chord National Chamber Music Championship for secondary school ensembles. Six ensembles progressed to the final concert, broadcast on Melbourne Digital Concert…

Ensemble Offspring Releases Solo series On YouTube

Ensemble Offspring has released a series of videos entitled Lone Hemispheres: The Solo Sessions as one of its responses to music-making in the COVID era. Sponsored by a COVID grant from the City of Sydney, Many months in the making, our series of 12 videos were recorded at Baker Street Studios, highlighting modern masterpieces alongside…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Free Digital Concert

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has released a digital recording Simone Young Conducts Great Romantics with Chief Conductor Designate Simone Young, available free on the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s website. The programme opens with Australian composer Paul Terracini’s brass attack, before floating onto the heavenly melodies of Mahler and Fauré. A contemporary piece by Michael Daugherty slices…

German Love Songs on New ABC Classic Release

There is an absolute treasure trove of German Art Song on a new album release from ABC Classic, Love’s Torment, Love’s Delight: Songs by Brahms, Schumann & Mendelssohn, available now. Four superb voices and four hands at one piano celebrate the delights of love. Soprano Jacqueline Porter, mezzo-soprano Anna Dowsley, tenor Andrew Goodwin and baritone…

Enigma Quartet And Riley Lee Release New Album On ABC CLassic

World-renowned shakuhachi master Riley Lee has joined forces with the Sydney-based Enigma Quartet to create a new genus of music in one of the most ambitious commissioning and performance projects in recent years. Their new album, The Five Elements takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey through the Australian landscape that traverses universal concepts linking…