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Sydney has a new vocal ensemble Castalia, which makes its debut this weekend.

Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes, the two prodigiously gifted Norwegian artists who have risen to the top of the classical music world, have collaborated for the first time on a new album of Edvard Grieg songs now released on Decca Classics.

The Sydney International Piano Competition has announced that composer/pianist Colin Spiers has won its new competition for Australian composers, Composing the Future.

Composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi releases Underwater, his first new solo piano album in 20 years, now available on the Decca label.

Mark Isaacs will release a new solo piano single of Ravel’s Ondine in January 2022.

Superstar heldentenor and Sydney favourite Stuart Skelton has been appointed to lead the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s (CCM) internationally-renowned opera department in the role of the new J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera.

Deutsche Grammophon has released recordings of Chopin Piano Competition winner Bruce Liu, made during various live stages of this contest which was held in Warsaw in October 2021.    Born in Paris in 1997 to Chinese parents from Beijing, Liu’s family moved to Montreal when he was six. He began playing the piano aged eight…

To celebrate her 50th birthday, superstar Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has released Amata Dalle Tenebre her first solo album in five years on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

Congratulations to violinist Kyla Matsuura-Miller who has won the The Music Trust’s 2021 Freedman Classical Fellowship. Kyla and finalists Eliza Shephard (flute), Will Hansen (double bass) and Molly Collier-O’Boyle (viola) competed for the coveted $21,000 prize in a concert final that was filmed in Sydney and Melbourne, and streamed online via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. The 28-year-old Matsuura-Miller is a Tokyo-born,…