Classical Fine Music Magazine Michael Morton-Evans
Anyone who had the good fortune to meet composer Victor Herbert for the first time came away wondering just where the man came from.
Classical Fine Music Magazine
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.
Emerging Artist Program Fine Music Magazine Jazz
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.
Fine Music Magazine Jazz
Jeannie McInnes looks at the close connections between Jazz and the visual arts. Both encourage creative freedom and improvisation and there are numerous creatives who work in both mediums.
Advance publicity for the Mahler 2 concert in Chatswood bordered on hyperventilation: Massive!, shrieked one headline, Colossal!, trumpeted another.
A 2024 list of contemporary jazz high achievers reveals a surprisingly strong presence of Greek born contributors such as trumpet/flugelhorn player Andreas Polyzogopoulos and the double bassists Mihalis Kalkanis and Petros Klampanis.
Born in the United Kingdom to a mixed heritage – English father and Australian mother – Sydney-based composer, musician, and educator, Keyna Wilkins spent her early days in a small rural village in Somerset, where she first discovered her passion for music.
