The 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod:
Keep up with all the results from the 2012 Sydney Eisteddfod:
Lyric tenor Jospeh Calleja last week shared the stage with violinist Nicola Benedetti and Jiri Belohlavek at the Last Night of the Proms. For the Belohlavek, it was his final appearance at the Proms and as the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Calleja recently released a new CD in tribute to Mario Lanza. In a recent…
Orchestra Victoria, the Melbourne based orchestra scheduled to play for the Melbourne Ring Cycle and which plays for the Australian Ballet, Opera Australia and the Victorian Opera, is under review. The Australian reports: Click here to read.
In a shameless piece of self-promotion, SoundsLikeSydney is thrilled to be quoted by Deutsche Grammophon on its website, reviewing mandolin player Avi Avital’s recording of Bach’s Concertos and Sonatas. Gramophone Magazine and BBC Music Magazine are also quoted – not bad company to be in! Click here to read the whole review. Avi Avital performed…
ARIA award-winning a capella vocal quartet The Idea of North has announced a change in line-up as soprano Sally Cameron and co-founder and bass Andrew Piper have decided to leave the ensemble to pursue other goals and interests. Sally Cameron has been with the group for 10 years and Andrew Piper co-founded the group as…
Congratulations to Samuel Sakker with his success in the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition which has just concluded with the Australian tenor gaining the second prize to British soprano Rowan Pierce’s winning performance. British-Serbian bass-baritone Božidar Smiljanić was placed third. Around 150 young singers aged 33 and under from 28 countries entered the competition…
Hard to believe, but the youthful Sir Simon Rattle will be nearly 62 in 2018, when he plans to leave the Berlin Philharmonic, which he joined as Chief Conductor in 2002, heralding the beginning of a search for a worthy successor: http://www.classical-music.com/news/sir-simon-rattle-leave-berlin-phil-2018