Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition Announces Competitors
Musica Viva Australia’s Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition finalists comprise fourteen ensembles from around the world.
ABC Classics Commemorates International Women’s Day With A New Release
Commemorating International Women’s Day today, ABC Classic is releasing Women of Note: A Century of Australian Composers. This double CD is the first in a new series of recordings, celebrating Australian female composers. Australia has a celebrated history of women in music – Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland, Yvonne Kenny and Eileen Joyce in particular, loom large…
Brahms and Beethoven with a spritz of Part
Australian born violinist Benjamin Breen returns to Sydney, from his New York home, to join Melbourne pianist Caroline Almonte in a programme of Beethoven and Brahms with a spritz of Arvo Part. It is the duo’s first Sydney recital in 20 years. The programme opens with the sweeping lyricism and soaring melodies of Brahms’ Sonata for Violin…