Unsuk Chin: composer with an independent mind
Korean composer Unsuk Chin talks about studying with Ligeti, her influences, and what she'd tell young composers now.
Korean composer Unsuk Chin talks about studying with Ligeti, her influences, and what she'd tell young composers now.
Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream has enchanted audiences from its first performance. Howard Shelley speaks to Angus McPherson about how ‘the Dream’ was born.
The British maestro, who has led the MSO since 2013, will end his tenure as Chief Conductor at the end of 2019.
Conductor Dan Ettinger and pianist Ingrid Fliter deliver a conservative program full of surprises.
The young Australian conductor, now based in Colorado, returns to Perth to conduct a symphonic tribute to Comic-Con – and there may be a costume involved.
Taking his inspiration from everything he discovered around him, Germany’s ultimate Romantic lavished his talents upon them, taking music into completely new territory, says Julian Haylock.
Over 12 months, the emerging composer will work closely with orchestra and staff to create two new compositions to be performed by the MSO.
For the latest offering in her Norse and Celtic-inspired concerto series, Mary Finsterer is harnessing the power of viola and cello.
The Orava Quartet's debut album on Deutsche Grammophon tops The Limelight Chart – our monthly list of Australia’s best-selling classical music albums.
Barenboim himself has not been seen in Australia since 1970, and this is the first time he has brought his Orchestra here.
Music’s peerless scene painter, Claude Debussy often relied on his own imagination rather than first-hand experience, reflects Gerald Larner. Yet his ability to conjure up images and moods was little less than miraculous.
A touching tribute to an absent artist and a superb account of Mahler Ten makes this evening a gift.
An Austro-German program of two Classical works and two Romantic, long on youthful enthusiasm.