A Rolls Royce line up takes a musical Winter Palace by storm.
August 4, 2017
It’s Bach, Jim, but not always as we know it.
August 3, 2017
As Piers Lane prepares to pass the baton at this year’s AFCM, we look at the life and career of a great Australian pianist.
July 14, 2017
He realised early that if he wanted his instrument to be taken seriously he had to perform contemporary music.
April 20, 2017
In the lead up to his final AFCM as Artistic Director, the pianist reflects on his 11-year tenure.
March 27, 2017
British pianist Kathryn Stott will take over in 2018 following Piers Lane’s final year at the helm.
November 15, 2016
Composer Elena Kats-Chernin was flown in for the Festival Farewell. After nine days of music-making at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the final concert typically has a carnival atmosphere, the stage full of performers and the repertoire festive – and this year’s sold-out Festival Farewell was no different. The concert opened with German husband-and-wife team violinist Indira Koch and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt performing Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s Passacaglia in G Minor on a Theme by George Frideric Handel, before baritone Roderick Williams joined the Goldner Quartet on stage for a set of Mendelssohn songs. The concert really caught fire, however, with pianists Piers Lane and Finghin Collins facing off across two pianos for Dave Brubeck’s bluesy ballet suite Points on Jazz, which prompted laughter and excited applause after several of the movements. The audience was given the mysterious instruction to remain in their seats at the end of the concert’s first half. Flown in especially for the concert was Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin, whose Three Dancers was commissioned for the festival’s 25th anniversary last year. In celebration of Lane’s tenth anniversary as Artistic Director of the Festival this year, the organisers had a surprise for him – a…
August 8, 2016
Dodging bullets on the way to school, music as “competitive cage-fighting” almost turned the Chinese cellist off the classics for good. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
August 6, 2016
A clever pairing is more than simply programming by numbers.
August 6, 2016
Don't let the title fool you – these are classics as you don't often hear them.
August 5, 2016
Tasmin Little talks about chicken dinners at the Menuhin school, upcoming performances in Australia and intense collaborations with Piers Lane.
July 20, 2016
The Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music looks back on a decade of superb music making. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
March 16, 2016