National Review of Opera Companies Announced
Funding of $32 million for the nation’s opera companies is to come under the scrutiny of a three person panel.
Read the feature in The Australian
Funding of $32 million for the nation’s opera companies is to come under the scrutiny of a three person panel.
Read the feature in The Australian
Having collaborated on the recent production of The Threepenny Opera, conductor and music educator Richard Gill and performer Eddie Perfect have struck another chord in the field of music education: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/odd-couple-stand-for-classical-ideals-20111015-1lq64.html Checkout also this brilliant presentation by Richard Gill for TEDx 2011 on “The Value of Music Education”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRus3NVbwE
The Metropolitan Orchestra (TMO) under Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Sarah-Grace Williams has opened applications for its inaugural Composer Development Program in 2016 offering a unique opportunity for composers to extensively workshop and develop their composition and overall craft within a professional context. Submissions are due by February 19, 2016. A three-stage project, TMO’s Composer…
Soprano Nicole Car has established Freelance Artist Relief Australia, a fund providing financial aid for her colleagues after the closure of arts venues due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Founded in March 2020, its grants will be available for any Australian classical singer who has suffered quantifiable losses with major Australian and overseas opera companies and…
In October 2016, the award-winning comedian and writer John Clarke made his debut appearance as guest presenter on ABC Classic FM’s Saturday Morning program. A favourite on television and a household name thanks to his brilliant satire Clarke and Dawe and the mockumentary TV series The Games, Clarke relished the opportunity to turn his comic genius and…
In its 2014-15 round of grants, the Australia-India Council Grants Program, under the auspices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has awarded Opera Australia $50,000 to take ‘Shane Warne the Musical’ on a tour of India. The grants are aimed at “innovative projects that foster deeper people-to-people and institutional links between Australia and…
A decade after Nicholas Routley, the founding director of the Sydney Chamber Choir has left the ensemble he created, there is still a powerful nexus between them. Talking about the choir’s upcoming 40th anniversary concert this weekend, which he will conduct, Nicholas Routley muses “I don’t know whether to say ‘we’ or ‘they’ since I…