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.
Deutsche Grammophon will release the soundtrack to the movie, Maestro played by the London Symphony Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Cellist Zoe Knighton and pianist Amir Farid present their seventh collaboration in a new recording Brahms’ Cello on the Move label with music by Johannes Brahms.
The Sydney Youth Orchestra is calling for applicants for its 2016 auditions. With a history of over 40 years, this orchestra has nurtured many musicians who today work in the profession both is Australia and around the world. Applications close on 14 September, 2015. Click here for more.
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
Six new Australian compositions have been announced as finalists for the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes. Shortlisted for the Orchestral Prize of $25,000 are James Ledger for Golden years, a 2013 composition for violin and orchestra, Cathy Milliken’s Earth Plays, written in 2015 for mezzo-soprano and orchestra and Lachlan Skipworth for his Concerto for clarinet and orchestra written in 2014. Shortlisted…
A decade after Nicholas Routley, the founding director of the Sydney Chamber Choir has left the ensemble he created, there is still a powerful nexus between them. Talking about the choir’s upcoming 40th anniversary concert this weekend, which he will conduct, Nicholas Routley muses “I don’t know whether to say ‘we’ or ‘they’ since I…