Following their brilliant performance of Mozart’s Requiem last year, the students of the Conservatorium High School in Sydney perform the music of Mussorgsky, Ravel and Poulenc in Pictures, Glorious Pictures. They will present two perspectives on Mussorgsky’s ten movement virtuoso piece Pictures at an Exhibition – the original piano version composed in 1874, and the orchestral adaptation by…
Eight divertimenti, ten plague choruses and a bunch of fiercely talented Year 12 students. Put them together and you have the programme for the Annual Concert to be given by students of the Conservatorium High school this weekend. Bernstein composed the 8 Divertimenti to commemorate the centenary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Stravinsky wrote Symphony…
This is an introduction to look out for in Sydney as conductor Carloyn Watson builds her career after two years of studies in Europe. She has a gleam in her eye. “I absolutely luuurve opera and want to do more…. it has to be the most fun you can have with your clothes on! For…