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CD Review – Tim Bruer – Love Letters Compostions for Solo Piano

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****Some purists prefer artists to stay in their lane, but often when they venture out of that tried and tested...

A Life of Max Reger

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The German composer and musician Max Reger was both a conservative and a visionary, looking back to the musical forms of the 18th century and forward to the harmonic adventures of the 20th. Reger inherited the gifts of his musician father, quickly developing an ambition to become a composer. This resulted from hearing Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Parsifal during his first pilgrimage to Bayreuth.

Hubert Clifford: A true pioneer

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Paul Cooke surveys an early Australian symphonist Hubert Clifford’s Symphony 1940 was something of an anomaly among his compositions. While his...

Born on this day – Johann Christian Sinding (11/01/1856)

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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.

Born on this Day: Chuck Mangione (29 November, 1940)

Born On This Day

For more than five decades, Chuck Mangione's love affair with music has been characterized by his boundless energy, unabashed enthusiasm, and pure joy that radiates from the stage. Mangione first attracted attention with his brother, Gap, in a mainstream jazz band, The Jazz Brothers, in which he played trumpet much like that of the man who he refers to as his musical father-Dizzy Gillespie. In fact Dizzy gave Chuck an 'updo' horn just like his own.

Born on this day – Manuel de Falla (11/23/1876)

Born On This Day

Part Impressionist and part neo-Classicist, Manuel de Falla is difficult to peg, but he is widely regarded as the most distinguished Spanish composer of the early 20th century. His output is small but choice and revolves largely around music for the stage.

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Our weekly Spotify playlist A Fine Selection, features the very best in folk, jazz, classical and world sounds emerging from around the globe.

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Our weekly Spotify playlist, A Fine Selection, is available to listen to now. 21 hand chosen pieces of music covering the best in current and exciting Jazz, Classical and World sounds. Featured this week are acts such as … …

2022 NSW Fine Music Young Virtuoso Award Finalists

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Our 2022 Winner was Joshua Han, piano with Second Place to David Carreon, violin and Anna Chung, clarinet, received the Encouragement Award.

2MBS Fine Music Sydney Magazine – September Out Now!

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The September issue of the 2MBS Fine Music Sydney Magazine has just been released. This month Virginia Ginnane talked to the 2019 Winner of the 2MBS Fine Music’s inaugural Ken Weatherly Jazz Scholarship, Kate Wadey, about her third album, the song-writing collaboration with the musicians she works with, and the relief of coming out of lockdown. Our cover features Ensemble Offspring’s Listen Up!, a micro festival of new music at the National Art School in Darlinghurst this month.