Sydney Sings – A New Festival Is Launched

Maxim Vengerov was appointed Menuhin Professor of violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London, earlier this year. He has concerts coming up in Moscow, London, Baku, Lausanne and Munich – all in the next 2 weeks. Click here to read his interview with Andrew Clark of the Financial Times.

SoundsLikeSydney has 3 double passes to give away to the IFAC Australian Singing Competition finals on August 30th, at the Sydney Conservatorium. The five finalists – Kate Amos, Anna Voshege, Samantha Clarke, Corinne Cowling and Isabella Moore will perform with the Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra conducted by Maestro Johannes Fritzsch. The compere for the evening will…

 The Jacobean Singers Inc is looking for a new music director to replace our existing director who is going to the US. We are looking for an experienced choral conductor /organist. The Choir has an extensive library and over the past fifteen years has built up a repertoire of sacred and secular music from Renaissance…

  As the summer holidays end and the Sydney Festival wraps up, Sydneysiders contemplate the start of a wealth of subscription series. Despite the struggle to survive and intense competition for audiences and sponsorship, performing arts companies will offer Sydneysiders numerous opportunities for their delectation, ranging from rare one-offs, through to the equivalent of an evening with…