Joep Beving: Kitchen to Concert Hall
The pianist recorded his atmospheric first album in his kitchen at night – in spite of the neighbours – but now thanks to Internet success he’s touring the world.
The pianist recorded his atmospheric first album in his kitchen at night – in spite of the neighbours – but now thanks to Internet success he’s touring the world.
Virginia Lloyd spent her youth at the piano, but drifted away in adulthood. Revisiting the instrument in her new memoir, she discusses women pianists, from her grandmother to the likes of Clara Schumann and the heroines of Jane Austen.
Brexit may be looming, but reissues from the Motherland can still make hay.
New South Wales Minister for the Arts Don Harwin considers Tchaikovsky his very favourite composer, but when the chips are down he’s partial to the greatest hits of George Michael.
We talk to the Australian violinist, who won the ABC Young Performers Award at 16, about coming home for a string of concerts and debuts.
His colleagues in the legal profession call him ‘The Hammer’ but at the Tamworth Festival Justice Hammerschlag of the Supreme Court of NSW becomes guitarist Davey J.
After surgery and chemotherapy, the popular soprano performs in The Creation for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, alongside husband Jud Arthur.
Perth choir The Giovanni Consort tells us about their concert in a spectacular cave in Yanchep National Park in the Wajuk Noongar region.
Liza Lim's 'cut-out' opera about life, death and the consequences of mad scientists has earned itself a second staging.
As he prepares to make his Australian debut, the veteran American baritone talks Mahler, Bernstein, American art song, and why he finds pandas so adorable.
In his day, Ferdinand Ries inspired Schumann and Liszt. Now, Australia’s favourite pianist is rediscovering for Hyperion the concertos of a composer who forms the missing link between Beethoven and Chopin.
The Grammy award-winning vocalist explains how growing up on a diet of Bach and Brahms set him up for a career singing jazz.
As OA releases its 2017 Annual Report today, Rory Jeffes discusses the operating deficit and into the future.