Fine Music Magazine

The music on this album, with its esoteric title, is undeniably outstandingly composed and arranged by Vanessa Perica.

Dianne hails from Virginia, USA, where she completed her Music degree at George Mason University. Her postgraduate studies were completed...

There’s something magical about 2MBS Fine Music Sydney according to the Hon. Margaret Beazley, Governor of NSW.

Shichiseki highlights two of Michael Kieran Harvey’s manifold talents: those of pianist (he was the first Australian to win a major international piano competition), and of tireless promoter of his compatriots’ compositions.

Anyone who had the good fortune to meet composer Victor Herbert for the first time came away wondering just where the man came from.

At 2.30pm on Sunday 26 May the lights in the Concourse Concert Hall in Chatswood will dim on a hushed enthusiastic audience focusing on an orchestra with a difference.

Martin Lijauco speaks with the mezzo soprano Kruger Scholarship winner.

Zodiac was selected as the Fine Music 2023 Jazz Artist-in Residence. It’s led by pianist Jordan Chung, with saxophonist Hinano Fujisaki, bassist Sabine Tapia and drummer Manson Luk.

Although Charles Ives had virtually ceased composing nine years earlier, when the first two movements of his Fourth Symphony were premiered in New York in 1927.

The year 1948 was one of tribulation for Shostakovich and Prokofiev, censured by the cultural commissars and forced to recant for writing ‘decadent’ and ‘formalistic’ music.