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The February issue of our Fine Music Magazine features a tribute to Australian jazz and soul singer, Renée Geyer who passed away last month.

Also in this edition Michael Morton-Evans traces the highs and lows of the prodigiously talented Strauss dynasty,

Each Friday, Barry O’Sullivan invites a studio guest onto Friday’s A Jazz Hour at noon, this week saxophonist Gai Bryant meets up with Barry. Listen out for her hugely talented Cuban and Latino ensemble Caribé, and their latest release, Distant Waters.

Sydney siders are spoilt for choice this February, as the city is jam packed with live music events. Here are some highlights of what's happening throughout the month.

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The music on their latest release has much in common with contemporary jazz in composition and performance, blending Latin and jazz musicians and culture, enhanced with the very personal and distinctive sounds of the individual members of the group.

Composer Margaret Brandman’s works are celebrated for their melodic sensitivity and inventiveness. Her Binna Burra Dreaming album released on the Ambition label, presents finely-crafted gems for ‘cello with piano, superbly recorded in high definition...

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Can you help to find these composers who are all born in January before the month ends?

On Thursday morning, Simon Moore spoke with soprano Esther Song, who will be playing the iconic role of Musette in La Bohème with Opera Australia during the second half of the run.

Christian August Sinding studied music in addition to his academic studies throughout his school years, taking violin with Gudbrand Bøhn and music theory with L.M. Lindeman, one of the most important musicians in Christiana (later renamed Oslo). In 1874 he followed the path of his famous countryman Edvard Grieg by going to Leipzig to study.