The winners of the prestigious 2013 Paul Lowin Prizes were announced at ceremony in Sydney on Monday night, 28th October. Elliot Gyger won the $15,000 purse in the Song Cycle category for giving voice (2012), a cycle of eight songs for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, based on Australian female poets’ words about early childhood…
The coveted Paul Lowin Prizes are being awarded again in 2013, and the winners will be announced in Sydney, on Monday October 28th, 2013. Presented by the Paul Lowin Trust and the Australian Music Centre (AMC), the awards are among Australia’s richest prizes for composition, with an Orchestral Prize of $25,000 and a Song Cycle Prize of…
Old and new violins are the stars of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s opening 2013 concerts in Sydney. Richard Tognetti plays his treasured 270-year-old Guarneri del Gesù violin as soloist in his favourite Mozart Violin Concerto (No.3) and leads the Australian Chamber Orchestra in symphonies by Mozart and Haydn. Australian composer Brett Dean joins the orchestra to…