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A round-up of our recent news reports.
July 25, 2022
Ukrainian bandura player and vocalist Larissa Kovalchuk discusses her training in Kyiv, the constant pressure from Russia, the horrors of the war, and taking part in a fundraising concert in Canberra.
May 25, 2022
The final concert of the 2022 Canberra International Music Festival was a joyous, humours and heartfelt affair.
May 9, 2022
An amazing coupling of Katy Abbott and Frederic Rzewski transported its audience to new worlds of possibilities within political commentary, demolishing the old adage that ‘music is beyond politics’.
May 6, 2022
The violinist discusses his new group’s origins, the repertoire they most enjoy, their experience at this year's Canberra International Music Festival, and whether a composer can recreate a painting through music.
May 6, 2022
The Canberra Festival celebrates the life of Australian composer and pioneer in electronic and computer music Martin Wesley-Smith with a concert in two halves.
May 5, 2022
This wide-ranging program perfectly reflects Canberra Festival's overarching theme, even if one did have to work to see the links.
May 4, 2022
The experience of While You Sleep is total, inescapable. It is mesmerising, perplexing, captivating and frustrating, just like a dream.
May 1, 2022
Australia's first-ever period-instrument presentation of The Creation reveals the fresh vitality and range of colours in Haydn’s score.
April 30, 2022
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
April 26, 2022
Roland Peelman explores the genesis of Haydn’s Creation, from the high-minded philosophy of The Enlightenment to the very real motivation of a large commission!
April 21, 2022
My most ambitious collaboration yet with visual artist Sal Cooper is an aural and visual excursion into the musical fugue.
March 21, 2022