“Music was like an extra language in our family, one we all spoke.”
The world-famous cellist Steven Isserlis comes from a long line of musicians. His Russian grandfather was accepted into the Moscow Conservatoire aged just 10. Steven Isserlis talks to the New Statesman about the pleasures and pressures of coming from an intensely musical family.
On March 19, The NSW Drs Orchestra will gather eighty medical professionals and students under its banner to perform a concert for the 9th consecutive year to fund its continuing partnership with Sydney Eisteddfod in sponsoring the NSW Drs Orchestra Sydney Eisteddfod Instrumental Scholarship in 2017 and the medical charity Freedom Across Australia. Dr Susan Allman…
A performance of Brett Dean’s Grawemeyer Award winning composition “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” in London, has been warmly received. Featured in a recent BBC Total Immersion day at the Barbican Centre, the four movement concerto for violin and orchestra was composed in 2006 and won the award in 2009. The concerto was premiered by the…
Applications for the 2019 Paul Lowin Prizes, now open, as announced by Perpetual and the Australian Music Centre. Entries should be lodged online by 5pm AEST on Sunday 30 June 2019. The two prizes, The Paul Lowin Orchestral Prize 2019 of $25,000 and the Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize 2019 of $15,000 are among Australia’s most significant prizes for…
The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra’s 2020 season features a variety guest collaborations with whom they will perform gems from the classical and romantic eras with an acknowledgement to contemporary Australian repertoire. Directed by violinist Rachael Beesley, the year’s curtain raiser The Impresario in March, includes the Overture to Mozart’s opera of the same name,…
For four years, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has immersed himself exclusively in the piano music of Beethoven. Performing with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra which he has directed from the piano, the project came to an end last weekend at this year’s BBC Proms. Leif Over Andsnes talks about the music which has pre-occupied him…
The Academy of Ancient Music presents the music of Dario Castello, the hidden genius of Venetian music in its latest album release, available from today on ABC Classics on CD and in digital form. A contemporary of Claudio Monteverdi, Castello was a composer and wind player who wrote in an innovative style that had a…