The 2015 APRA/AMCOS Art Music Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music has been given to composer, pianist and scholar Larry Sitsky AM for his “significant and enduring contribution to Australian music.” The award will be made at the 2015 Art Music Awards ceremony on Tuesday 11 August. The recipient of the Distinguished Services to Australian Music award is…
Two musical powerhouses blend east and west to create earth cry – a dark, vibrant and transformative concert experience when Synergy Percussion and, Noreum Machi the foremost percussion ensembles of Australia and Korea, join forces to bring together the traditional and the contemporary of both cultures. earth cry will be an immersive concert experience, performed amidst a vivid…
Carl Vine AO has been appointed Patron of drumming ensemble Taikoz and of percussion ensemble Synergy. Carl Vine is one of Australia’s best known and frequently composers. He is also Artistic Director of Musica Viva, The Huntington Music Festival and a Senior Lecturer in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. He has enjoyed…