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Beethoven recomposed
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address 2021
The Australian Music Centre has announced that three artists will feature in the 2021 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address which will take the form of a live-stream panel discussion featuring three musically diverse panellists: ethno-jazz pianist and composer Zela Margossian, boundary-breaking composer and percussionist Bree van Reyk, and singer, composer and improviser Sia Ahmad. The conversation will…
UNSW Music Performance Unit Announces Two Composition Prizes For 2020
The Music Performance Unit UNSW has announced two composition prizes for 2020, the Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize and the Willgoss Choral Composition Prize. Willgoss Ensemble Composition Prize is a new composition prize, on offer in 2020-only. The winning applicant will be commissioned to compose a short, new work for either: SATB choir with piano or…
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Features in Bond Movie
Premiering in Sydney tonight is the eagerly anticipated new James Bond film Spectre – and the soundtrack has a very special Sydney connection. The film uses a track from a recording of Vivaldi’s music, made in Sydney in 2000 by German countertenor Andreas Scholl and Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, conducted by its Artistic Director Paul Dyer. The track…
Trevor Pinnock Records JS Bach Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 For Deutsche Grammophone
Available tomorrow, April 10, is British harpsichordist and conductor’s new recording on Deutsche Grammophon, J S BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier I. Trevor Pinnock is a pioneer of the early music movement. As founder and former leader of The English Concert he enjoys a longstanding relationship with Archiv Produktion and Deutsche Grammophon. Among his celebrated recordings…
The ACO thrills at the Edinburgh Festival
The Australian Chamber Orchestra has again impressed on the international stage with its performance at the Edinburgh Festival, an achievement whose significance is swelled by the knowledge that performing at this hallowed event is strictly at the invitation of Festival Director Jonathan Mills. With Richard Tognetti directing from the violin, the concert was simulcast on BBC3 and included works…