German composer Detlev Glanert (b 1960) re-orchestrated the Four Serioua Songs of Brahms and augmened them with preludes and a postlude. The work premiered at the BBC Prom in July 2006. Glanert gives his views on the 21st century re-interpretation of Brahms:
Like conducting, classical music composition has been a field of endeavour where few women have achieved fame. This feature from BBC Culture nominates 10 women composers of note through the centuries. We can can make a few suggestions – Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Kaija Saariaho, Elena Kats-Chernin, Rachel Portman, Barbara Strozzi, Elisabeth Lutyens, Anne Boyd, Rosalind Page, Liza…
Oscar Wong from the Gold Coast, Queensland has won the Sydney Eisteddfod Kawai Senior Piano Scholarship for 2024
Opera Australia has announced the appointment to its Board of Simon Mordant AM, effective from 1st January 2014. He joins a recently re-structured Board chaired by David Mortimer AO who assumed his role in January this year and Mary Waldron who joined ahead of the Company’s AGM in April, 2013. In a press statement released today, David…
Kathryn Selby, AM presents A Final Offering, a spectacular performance with an elite ensemble of musical friends to round out her 2020 Season online, on demand, from Friday 6 November. Sydney’s magnificent City Recital Hall is again the venue for this exciting, high-quality filmed-live concert, with special features. It replaces the planned live November…
Scroll down to see these vibrant images from Opera Australia’s 2014 production of The Magic Flute. (9 images) Courtesy Opera Australia. Images Branco Gaica.
After 16 years as CEO of Opera Australia, Adrian Collette is leaving the company at the end of 2012 to take up a post with the University of Melbourne. Collette began his career with the company as a Young Artist, interleaved with a career in publishing before returning to the company as CEO in 1997….