Sixteen year old Grace Clifford has won the coveted 2014 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, announced at the Grand Finals of the competition held in Adelaide last night. For her winning performance she played Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D, Op.61 with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Seaman at the Adelaide Town Hall. A formidably talented…
This year, the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award celebrates 70 years of discovering some of Australia’s finest talents. The final rounds of the competition will be held in Adelaide with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra over 10 days in August. Taking the form of a ‘mini-festival’ the competition includes 7 public concerts in 10…
Stethoscopes are downed for strings – and other orchestral instruments when Musicus Medicus, the NSW Doctors Orchestra presents its annual concert featuring a spectrum of familiar and popular music that has made the journey from ballet stages and movie screens to concert halls. The programme ranges from John Williams’ Star Wars Suite to Tchaikovsky’s Suite…