Earlier this week, respected music director and educator Richard Gill OAM, delivered the 17th annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks address on the topic of “A Case for New Music” under the auspices of the New Music Network.
In an erudite and passionate speech he argues the case for new music and for comprehensive music education in schools.
Click here to read Richard Gill’s 2015 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address.
The first ever anthology of Gurrumul’s classics, The Gurrumul Story is set for release on September 10, 2021 by Decca on digital platforms, CD, Deluxe CD+DVD and on vinyl. The Indigenous Australian singer/songwriter Gurrumul (1971-2017) grew up on Elcho Island (Galiwin’ku), off the coast of tropical North East Arnhem land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The…
Tonight, Mozart’s fantasy filled opera The Magic Flute opens at the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre of the Sydney Opera House. Singing the role of Sarastro is Morris Robinson, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Following his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in their production of Fidelio, he has enjoyed a busy career…
Create NSW is inviting arts and cultural organisations and Local Government Authorities to apply for NSW Government’s multi-yearfunding.
The Sydney International Piano Competition 2021 online season ticket offers the chance to watch and keep all 50 performances from the preliminary, semi-final and final stages, plus the special announcements
The City Recital Hall has a special offer on A reserve tickets to The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s Mozart Tempest, with solo fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. (see SoundsLikeSydney post on Kristian Bezuidenhout). Programme: Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor K. 183 Mozart: Rondo for Fortepiano K. 382 Mozart: Overture to Betulia Liberata K.118 Mozart: Piano Concerto…
The Australian reports that singers on 12 month contracts with Opera Australia will be rested for upto 12 weeks without pay in 2013. A representative of Actors’ Equity claims that this is to make way for the musical The King and I; OA artistic director Lyndon Terracini says it is due to “casting and financial considerations.”…