Features in our bumper holiday issue include the arts on offer in 2022, Deborah Cheetham's interview with Chi-chi Nwanoku, Víkingur Ólafsson, Leonardo the musician and Christopher Wheeldon's musical An American in Paris.
Three performers delve into two eras in one superb concert.
Daryl Buckley, AD of ELISION Ensemble, and Alex Raineri, AD of Brisbane Music Festival, remember a private, gentle, inspiring young man, considered one of Australia's most promising composers.
Brisbane Music Festival’s “extremely raunchy” online production explores the sensuality of Britten and Richard Strauss alongside the world premiere of a work exploring webcam culture.
Opera Queensland’s Eastern Promises recital for soprano and piano, performed by Alexandra Flood and Alex Raineri, offered an ambitious program of art song.
Based in Europe, Australian soprano Alexandra Flood is back home for a few months and discusses her career, quarantine at Howard Springs, forthcoming gigs and making the most of it during COVID.
This concert was a fabulous survey of the classical guitar in ensemble, with superb, effortless playing by Karin Schaupp.
Erik Griswold's new work for Brisbane Music Festival was inspired by our current COVID predicament, and Cole Porter's song Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye.
The inaugural Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival gets off to a promising start.
Eva Kong's well-chosen program, entertaining story-telling about her operatic life, and vocal skill made for a thoroughly enjoyable recital.
Tennyson and Strauss meet in Brisbane Music Festival’s unusual narrative experiment.
High-class music making let down by grab-bag programming.
The composer and member of Kupka’s Piano explains how 2020’s relentless media cycle inspired her new work, which will be premiered at the Brisbane Music Festival.
