Sumi Jo interview
How did we miss this one? Sumi Jo speaks to Julieanne Strachan of the Sydney Morning Herald during her recent trip to Australia. Better late than never:
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How did we miss this one? Sumi Jo speaks to Julieanne Strachan of the Sydney Morning Herald during her recent trip to Australia. Better late than never:
Click here to read.
If you’ve ever dreamed of running away and joining the circus, a new academy in Sydney lets you indulge that aspiration without having to run away. Composer and producer Chloe Charody and her business partner violinist Sonja Schebeck have taken their experiences from their circus opera The Carnival staged in London’s West End and opened…
Sir Roger Norrington takes a look at Beethoven’s Symphony No 1 for Gramophone Magazine. Click here to read.
Matthew Westwood of The Australian evalutes the “performance” of the AWO: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/an-orchestra-without-the-cultural-cringe/story-e6frg8n6-1226124757479
Chamber/cello – There are two outstanding chamber music events in April with the Sitkovetsky Trio presented by Music Viva performing the music of Smetana, Beethoven (the Archduke Trio) and the world premiere of a new work by Carl Vine, commissioned for Music Viva by Julian Burnside AO QC to commemorate the composer’s 60th birthday. April…
In an exciting new collaboration, Pinchgut Opera joins forces with Opera Australia for their Sydney Opera House debut in a pioneering and inventive move which restores baroque performance to the Joan Sutherland Opera Theatre.
It was 75 years ago, on November 9 in 1940 that Joaquín Rodrigo’s (1901 – 1999) Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra was premiered in the Spanish city of Barcelona. Celebrating the anniversary of this enormously popular concerto, guitarist siblings Slava and Leonard Grigoryan have re-released their CD, Rodrigo Guitar Concertos (ABC Classics 4812231), featuring the three…