Beginning in 2017, Sir Simon Rattle will take over as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra.
The popular and charismatic conductor now 60, has been the Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2002.
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Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, soloist with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Yarmila Alfonsetti is a woman with a mission. That mission is to have Sydney on a par with other international cities in its menu of live classical music concerts. As producer of classical music events for Sydney Opera House Presents, a company that is based…
Soprano Zoe Drummond from New South Wales has won the 2016 Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship awarded by the Opera Foundation for young Australians (formerly Opera Foundation Australia). The six finalists performed in a public recital at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music last weekend, in the presence of His Excellency General, The Hon. David Hurley,Governor of NSW,…
BBC Music Magazine nominates its 6 best web-based music projects to celebrate 25 years of the World Wide Web – Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, the Sydney Opera House and an Australian ensemble feature in the list!
Frozen in time through 170 years, a fragment of an opera by Franz Liszt, begun in 1849 and later abandoned, has been carefully reconstructed and prepared for performance by David Trippett, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. A documentary of the project, due for release in May 2017 features tenor…
Violinist Daniel Dodds who so notably led the Australian World Orchestra conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta in their recent performances of R Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben in Sydney and Melbourne, features in a new recording, Mozart Haffner Serenade on Sony Classical due for release on 21 October 2022.
Tickets for the Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival go on sale today. Running from Thursday October 27 to Saturday November 5 it will feature musicians from around the world for the Sydney Improvised Music Association’s (SIMA) annual celebration of women in jazz.