Five Questions for Maria Grenfell
The composer tells us about her new piano trio, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia for this year’s Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
The composer tells us about her new piano trio, commissioned by Musica Viva Australia for this year’s Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
Fourteen of the world’s best young chamber ensembles will battle it out at this year’s Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
Taking up his new position in Honolulu, the Australian-Chinese maestro assures us he will be back as he embarks on his latest cross-cultural crusade.
The quartet renews its commitment to gender-balanced programming across three mainstage concerts, featuring three new premieres from Australian composers and tours across urban and regional Victoria.
Held every four years, the competition hosted by Musica Viva Australia has selected 14 leading international chamber ensembles to perform for the $30,000 Grand Prize as well as other prizes.
With Yeol Eum Son on piano and conducted by Eivind Aadland, this program of works by Maria Grenfell, Chopin, Moszkowski and Mendelssohn was rich in the flavours of Poland, Italy and the Apple Isle.
Cool, charming and charismatic, Chen dazzles with his fourth Strad.
Cameron Lam explores Australian music written for brass instruments, from tubas and trombones, to double bell trumpets and a 19-century ophicleide.
The MSO and its new Chief Conductor are still feeling each other out, but Jaime Martín's ebullient and dynamic presence can't be ignored.
All-Australian, all-female, all-percussion – the future is here in striking release.
One of Australia's leading percussionists and advocates for change is determined to diversify the repertoire – even if she has to do it all herself.
Cameron Lam's playlist for July features music from Tasmania and from composers with strong ties to the island state.
This generous, well-chosen overview of Australian composition by women, curated by Anne Cawrse for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's She Speaks, was eloquently and sympathetically played.