Flinders Quartet, Melbourne’s premier string quartet, makes its debut appearance at North Sydney’s Independent Theatre this June as part of the Winter Concert Series, with special guest cellist, Timo-Veikko Valve in a program of chamber pieces for strings by Schubert, Boccherini and Sculthorpe. Australia’s much loved composer, Peter Sculthorpe said that he viewed his whole…
Lachlan Skipworth and Brett Dean have been announced as the winners of the 2016 Paul Lowin Prizes.The announcement was made in Sydney on December 6, 2016 by the Australian Music Centre in collaboration with Perpetual. A first-time Lowin finalist, the Western Australian composer Lachlan Skipworth took home the $25,000 Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize for his…
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…