Ahead of her return to Australia, the German violinist tells Jo Litson how she used to listen to her parents make music under the grand piano, as well as her special connection to Hindemith.
The SSO shows off its moves in collaboration with flamenco master Juan Carmona.
Alexander Gavrylyuk hurls Brahms' furious musical thunderbolt in the second instalment of the SSO's mini festival.
Alban Gerhardt brings Dean's colourful new Cello Concerto to life with subtlety and fire.
"The cello is being treated as a cello, and not as some trumpet-violin gone crazy," the German cellist says ahead of the world premiere with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
An absolutely epic evening conducted by Simone Young.
An intriguing Australian premiere with assured accounts of old favourites.
A panoramic view of Mussorgsky and a star turn from Benjamin Beilman in Higdon's Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto.
We speak to David Robertson as the SSO looks to the future in a season of blockbuster concerts and new appointments, from Lang Lang’s return to Stuart Skelton in Peter Grimes.
Ahead of the Australian premiere of her Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto, we talk to the composer about the Beatles, gender bias and why the number 1726 had audiences scratching their heads.
Actor Don Hany was raised on a steady diet of Beethoven and Brahms, as well as Jackson and Cohen. Now learning the violin, he’s revisiting the classics while preparing for his turn as the dashing Nick Arnstein.
Women composers are wildly under-represented in Australian music across all genres but, as Rosalind Appleby discovers, a groundswell of change is gathering force.
This phenomenally gifted composer’s legacy still resounds across both popular and classical music – and now audiences can hear him playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
