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…
The University of Sydney’s first MOOC centred on teaching music in the 21st century launches this month and urges music educators to rethink how technology is used to motivate school students to learn and make music. It is the University’s first rollout of seven open online courses, The Place of Music in 21st Century Education…
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble presents a program of contemporary brass music conducted by Michael Mulcahy. Included in the line-up are Copland’s euphoric Fanfare for the Common Man, the simple street corner piece Street Song by Michael Tilson Thomas and A Requiem in Our Time by Rautavaara. The programme: COPLAND Fanfare for the Common…