‘Queen of Spades’ shows her hand
Miriam Cosic previews the Sydney Symphony’s staged production of Tchaikovsky’s mammoth opera:
Miriam Cosic previews the Sydney Symphony’s staged production of Tchaikovsky’s mammoth opera:
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…
Kirsty Hilton has the best of two very rarefied worlds. As well as being Co-Principal 2nd violin with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, she is also a violinist and sole Australian representative with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, based in Europe and which is soon to tour to Sydney, conducted by Daniel Harding. She has been performing…
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) presents its digital content season, ACO HomeCasts, bringing extensive and innovative music from the musicians of the ACO into the homes of audiences and communities across Australia and abroad over the coming months, and beyond. Tonight, April 7 at 7 pm, ACO violinist Ike See and ACO violist Elizabeth Woolnough give…
Spotify, came to Australia this week. The Swedish digital music streaming service was launched in October 2008, and has clocked up a colossal 10 million users in less than 4 years. With three different levels of service Spotify offers capability of creating playlists, share music, browse artists, biographies and similar music, from a repository of millions of tracks. Spotify is available for your PC, Mac,…
The 2018 Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album goes to Crazy Girl Crazy featuring music By Gershwin, Berg & Berio performed by Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan with Orchestra Ludwig. Vale Dmitri Horostovsky, also nominated for the award. Other nominees: Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas — Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia;…
The celebrated Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson has released a new double album From Afar on the Deutsche Grammophon label, described as a “window into his musical life story.”