The Benaud Trio return with the release today of The Aussie Album, a beautiful and arresting collection of works that captures modern-day Australia through music. Recorded for ABC Classics, (ABC 481 7164), the album is available as a single CD and in digital form. Using Percy Grainger’s Colonial Song as its starting point, The Aussie Album…
Conducted by Stephen Mould, Willoughby Symphony presents BRILLIANCE, a concert which opens with Mozart’s sparkling Haffner Symphony, followed by Nielsen’s intensely beautiful Symphony No. 6 with its exquisite orchestral writing and fascinating palette of colours and textures. As well, flautist Virginia Taylor guest stars to perform Willoughby Symphony’s 2016 Composer-in-Residence, Matthew Hindson’s House Music, a flute concerto that challenges conventional perceptions…
A world-premiere performance of a new Elena Kats-Chernin work headlines the 2016 Chancellor’s Concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music on Friday 8 April. The concerto for saxophone entitled Macquarie’s Castle, salutes the magnificent building that was Governor Macquarie’s horse stables turned music school in 1915, and today houses the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The Soviet-born Elena Kats-Chernin…