Callum O’Reilly has won the 2019 Fine Music 102.5 and Willoughby Symphony Young Composer Award
The 22-year-old from Western Australia receives $5000 and will see his work premiered by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra.
The 22-year-old from Western Australia receives $5000 and will see his work premiered by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra.
Where did the Requiem come from and why have so many composers been fascinated with death? We explore the evolution of the Mass for the Dead, and looks at the five big ones to die for.
Rose Riebl and David Larkin explore the erasure of the woman behind Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder.
Carolyn Philpott’s work as a musicologist has taken her from writing a book about Malcolm Williamson to visiting Antarctica. She reveals how she is exploring the ways composers have used music to represent landscape, and how music might advocate for fragile regions.
Highlights include a new work by Jessica Wells, a choir of thousands, and the return of a revamped Opera at Jimbour.
Two superstars plumb the depths to poetic effect, despite the name.
Musical tramp’s delightful ditties make a violinist smile.
And Bradman makes five for some striking Mendelssohn.
Sonic sophistication from French-Australian collaboration.
Not-so-little women emerge from the shadows.
Lisiecki brings winning youthful brio and ardour to Mendelssohn’s Piano.
An entertaining concert that gave a potted history of opera stretching back some 400 years.
Every element of Krzysztof Warlikowski’s production seems to work in perfect unison.