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More background on David Robertson, who will take over as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony from 2014:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/new-sso-chief-strikes-right-notes/story-e6frg8n6-1226356619844
More background on David Robertson, who will take over as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony from 2014:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/new-sso-chief-strikes-right-notes/story-e6frg8n6-1226356619844
Dr Rowena Cowley, is a senior lecturer in voice and opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and President of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing. She is also a friend of Sounds Like Sydney. She voices her thoughts on the hit Channel 9 star seeker show – The Voice: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=6&newsstoryid=9139C
Claire Edwardes, Australia’s foremost virtuoso percussionist has released a new album, Kammerbox, an anthology of sparkling Australian chamber music written for and championed by Claire throughout her career. For decades Claire Edwardes has been collaborating with Australia’s top instrumentalists and commissioning chamber works by Australia’s foremost composers. Kammerbox showcases the best of Australian percussion with…
Selby&Friends are delighted to announce that Beethoven’s Triple Concerto is now available on the Selby&Friends YouTube channel Selby&Friends at Home. Pianist and founding artistic director, Kathryn Selby says “A few years ago I presented a program entitled ‘By Arrangement’ which featured Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in an extraordinary arrangement for piano trio by Carl Reinecke with…
The Sydney International Piano Competition has announced that composer/pianist Colin Spiers has won its new competition for Australian composers, Composing the Future.
“The Rabbits is a melting pot of genres….. (singers) from opera to jazz and music theatre…..accompanied by a 5 piece band which includes a piano accordion, violin and electronics…..It is likely to become an iconic work that not only entertains but makes critical statements about Australia’s history – beguiling and thought-provoking.” Those are some of…
Barrie Kosky will return to the Adelaide Festival in 2022 with its headline production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s fantasy opera The Golden Cockerel. The result of this collision of genius from Rimsky-Korkov and Kosky has resulted in a brilliant “Kosky-kov” production which will star British-Ukrainian bass-baritone Pavlo Hunka as the king, Russian lyric coloratura soprano Venera Gimadieva…