Earlier today, the ARIA Fine Arts and Artisan Awards were announced with Peter Sculthorpe: Complete Works for Solo Piano, performed by Tamara-Anna Cislowska, winning in the category for Best Classical Album. This important double album recorded by ABC Classics has been acclaimed not just for its fine playing, but as an anthology of the famous composer’s…
The Australia Ensemble@UNSW presents its April concert themed around the American composer Martin Bresnick’s ensemble piece My Twentieth Century. This work by Bresnick (b1946) who teaches at Yale University, reflects, at times whimsically and reflectively, on the troubled century passed – a century of terrible conflict but also great discovery and renewal. In musical terms, this troubled century covers…
Sydney based string ensemble the Acacia Quartet presents Love Notes, a concert in their 2015 series called Acacia Presents…. In Love Notes, the Acacia Quartet will perform the music of Dvorak, Sculthorpe and Borodin along with a narration by Rachel Gregg of 12 Poems by Moravian novelist, poet and playwright Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky (1833 – 1875). As well, this year…