Vale Christopher Hogwood
Early music pioneer and founder of the Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood has died.
Early music pioneer and founder of the Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood has died.
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, fondly known as “the Con” turns 100 in 2015! The iconic castle-like building with its distinctive turrets, sitting on the historical site of Sydney’s first bakery, housed Governor Macquarie’s horse stables in the 1800s and was then turned into a prolific music school in 1915. It will celebrate this historic…
Peggy Glanville-Hicks. There’s news of a historic event Australian music from conductor Jennifer Condon who has revived Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ forgotten opera Sappho: She says: “Greetings from Hamburg! Prior to the Australian release of the world premiere recording, Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ Sappho is being broadcast on ABC Classic FM’s Sunday Opera programme. (November 4th at 7pm) If you do…
Just as Sydney is recovering from ‘Kaufmannia’ after the recent tour of Jonas Kaufmann, comes news from Gramophone Magazine that his recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Helmut Deutsch for Sony Classical, has won the Solo Vocal Gramophone Classical Music Award for 2014. A recording of Brahms’ Symphonies by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly…
Lyn Williams OAM, Founder and Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts’ prestigious Don Banks Music Award for outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. The honour is in recognition of her lifework as founder of Gondwana Choirs, which began 27 years ago with the creation of the Sydney…
Some early impressions of the set and site design for Madame Butterfly, the 2014 production from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. Scroll down to see all three images. Set Design by Alfons Flores. Images courtesy of Opera Australia
Norwegian lyric dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen has released her debut album Lise Davidsen with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen pn Decca. Winner of The World Opera Competition, Placido Domingo’s Operalia and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, both in 2015, Lise was the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year in 2018 and makes…
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, fondly known as “the Con” turns 100 in 2015! The iconic castle-like building with its distinctive turrets, sitting on the historical site of Sydney’s first bakery, housed Governor Macquarie’s horse stables in the 1800s and was then turned into a prolific music school in 1915. It will celebrate this historic…
Peggy Glanville-Hicks. There’s news of a historic event Australian music from conductor Jennifer Condon who has revived Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ forgotten opera Sappho: She says: “Greetings from Hamburg! Prior to the Australian release of the world premiere recording, Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ Sappho is being broadcast on ABC Classic FM’s Sunday Opera programme. (November 4th at 7pm) If you do…
Just as Sydney is recovering from ‘Kaufmannia’ after the recent tour of Jonas Kaufmann, comes news from Gramophone Magazine that his recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Helmut Deutsch for Sony Classical, has won the Solo Vocal Gramophone Classical Music Award for 2014. A recording of Brahms’ Symphonies by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly…
Lyn Williams OAM, Founder and Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts’ prestigious Don Banks Music Award for outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. The honour is in recognition of her lifework as founder of Gondwana Choirs, which began 27 years ago with the creation of the Sydney…
Some early impressions of the set and site design for Madame Butterfly, the 2014 production from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. Scroll down to see all three images. Set Design by Alfons Flores. Images courtesy of Opera Australia
Norwegian lyric dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen has released her debut album Lise Davidsen with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen pn Decca. Winner of The World Opera Competition, Placido Domingo’s Operalia and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, both in 2015, Lise was the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year in 2018 and makes…
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, fondly known as “the Con” turns 100 in 2015! The iconic castle-like building with its distinctive turrets, sitting on the historical site of Sydney’s first bakery, housed Governor Macquarie’s horse stables in the 1800s and was then turned into a prolific music school in 1915. It will celebrate this historic…
Peggy Glanville-Hicks. There’s news of a historic event Australian music from conductor Jennifer Condon who has revived Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ forgotten opera Sappho: She says: “Greetings from Hamburg! Prior to the Australian release of the world premiere recording, Peggy Glanville-Hicks’ Sappho is being broadcast on ABC Classic FM’s Sunday Opera programme. (November 4th at 7pm) If you do…
Just as Sydney is recovering from ‘Kaufmannia’ after the recent tour of Jonas Kaufmann, comes news from Gramophone Magazine that his recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Helmut Deutsch for Sony Classical, has won the Solo Vocal Gramophone Classical Music Award for 2014. A recording of Brahms’ Symphonies by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly…
Lyn Williams OAM, Founder and Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs has been awarded the Australia Council for the Arts’ prestigious Don Banks Music Award for outstanding and sustained contribution to music in Australia. The honour is in recognition of her lifework as founder of Gondwana Choirs, which began 27 years ago with the creation of the Sydney…
Some early impressions of the set and site design for Madame Butterfly, the 2014 production from Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. Scroll down to see all three images. Set Design by Alfons Flores. Images courtesy of Opera Australia
Norwegian lyric dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen has released her debut album Lise Davidsen with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen pn Decca. Winner of The World Opera Competition, Placido Domingo’s Operalia and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, both in 2015, Lise was the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year in 2018 and makes…