Vale Gustav Leonhardt
Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch harpsichordist, organist and a world authority on early music, has died after ill health caused him to retire from public performance just last month.
Gustav Leonhardt, Dutch harpsichordist, organist and a world authority on early music, has died after ill health caused him to retire from public performance just last month.
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director of the Song Company since 1990 is to step down from this post at the end of 2015, it has been announced. The Song Company is one of Australia’s pre-eminent professional vocal ensembles which performs repertoire from across the centuries, in a spectrum of styles and with a variety of collaborators….
Congratulations to violinist Kyla Matsuura-Miller who has won the The Music Trust’s 2021 Freedman Classical Fellowship. Kyla and finalists Eliza Shephard (flute), Will Hansen (double bass) and Molly Collier-O’Boyle (viola) competed for the coveted $21,000 prize in a concert final that was filmed in Sydney and Melbourne, and streamed online via the Australian Digital Concert Hall. The 28-year-old Matsuura-Miller is a Tokyo-born,…
Vexations 840 is about pushing boundaries. Giving a new enterprise this name may seem like asking for trouble, but the people behind this venture are inviting challenge. One of these is Lyle Chan, music producer and composer who describes Vexations 840 as “a classical music enterprise” that will speak to core classical audiences. Vexations 840…
The great Sir Bryn Terfel stars in the next performance in the Met Stars Live in Concert series, presenting a festive program of classic carols, traditional Welsh Christmas songs, and even a little holiday-themed Wagner, live from Wales’s historic Brecon Cathedral. The concert is live on Saturday December 12 at 1 pm ET (US) and…
Revered conductor and music educator Richard Gill’s memoirs Give me Excess of it will be released on October 23rd, MacMillan Australia. He talks to Matthew Westwood about the book: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/musical-memoir-to-settle-old-scores/story-fn9d2mxu-1226498845442 You can also attend a literary lunch to hear Richard Gill talk about the book at The Four Season Hotel in the city: Date: Monday 29 October 2012…
Who: Sydney Oboe Quartet When: Sunday 7th February, 3pm Where: Christchurch St Laurence, 182 George St, Sydney What: JC Bach – Oboe Quartet in Bb/ Mehmedbasic – Isthmus (World Premiere)/ Britten – Phantasy Quartet/ Mozart – Oboe Quartet in F Join Sydney’s newest chamber ensemble for their debut solo performance when the the Sydney Oboe Quartet…