Mozart’s Requiem – Adelaide Festival Opener A Hit From Aix-En-Provence
Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide festival 2020. All images courtesy Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2019 © Pascal Victor SoundsLikeSydney was in the audience for the premiere season of Romeo Castellucci’s production of Mozart’s Requiem, with superstar Australian-born soprano Siobhan Stagg, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival last year. The production was a highlight of the festival and will be…
Applications Open for Musica Viva’s National Chamber Music Championship
Musica Viva has begun the search for the inaugural winners of Strike A Chord, its new National Chamber Music Championship. Strike A Chord is a new initiative developed by Musica Viva Australia for its 75th anniversary in 2020, with support from Creative Victoria and presented in partnership with Melbourne Recital Centre and the Australian National…
DocsVox – NSW Doctors Choir Fauré Open For Registrations
DocsVox – NSW Doctors Choir is excited to announce preparations for its second concert which will be themed around Fauré’s ethereal Requiem. It will be complemented by folk songs and motets, curated and conducted by Anthony Pasquill, with Dr Wei Jiang as soprano soloist. It promises to be a lot of fun with new friendships…
Ticket Giveaway To Chinese Lunar New Year Gala Night
If you would like to be in the running to win one double pass to this thrilling evening of music, song, dance and martial arts, celebrating the Year of the Rat, on January 28. email [email protected] by 5 pm on Friday 17 January, 2020 with Year of the Rat in the subject heading. We will…
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Releases ‘Elgar’
Award-winning British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason last week released Elgar, a new album of works anchored by Elgar’s Cello Concerto – one of the best-known work in the cello repertoire which had the 100th anniversary of its first performance celebrated last year. Sheku recorded the cello concerto at Abbey Road Studios (famously opened by Elgar himself…
Orchestra’s Youth Education Programme Expands in 2020
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s Young Mannheim Symphonists youth orchestra training program will expand in 2020. In 2020, students can audition for the National Winter Academy – a week-long residential music camp in Sydney in July – and/or to attend one of the three state-based Young Mannheim Symphonists Intensives – five-day programs in Victoria,…
Graham Pushee Appointed National Adjudicator For 2020 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition
Australian counter-tenor Graham Pushee will be the National Adjudicator of the 2020 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. Unforgettable performances, including the title role in Julius Ceasar and Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Opera Australia, are highlights in this ARIA nominated counter-tenor’s career that has spanned over three decades. Following his debut in 1973…
Simone Young Appointed Chief Conductor Of The SSO From 2020
The search is over – the Sydney Symphony Orchestra has announced that Australian-born conductor Simone Young AM will be the Orchestra’s Chief Conductor from 2022. The internationally lauded Young will be the first Australian Chief Conductor since 1991, and the third Australian to take on the prestigious role in the Orchestra’s 87 year history. She…
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Sydney 2019 Available On CD And DVD
Watched by more than 500 thousand viewers on ABC TV, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo marched into Sydney’s ANZ Stadium in October 2019, with over 1500 performers from 14 countries coming together for the largest Tattoo ever staged in its 69-year history – only the fifth time that the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has left…