The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s new Chief Conductor tells Angus McPherson about growing up in Bergen, swapping the concertmaster’s chair for the podium, and his connection with the music of Brahms.
The orchestra has jumped to the top of Ian Whitney’s annual analysis of Australian music advertised in the season brochures of the Major Performing Arts funded orchestras.
A touching farewell concert celebrating Tasmanian cello star Sue-Ellen Paulsen.
A dazzling evening of music making from all involved.
A weird alternative world: a roller coaster of horror and humour.
Richard Wagner said he wrote music with an exclamation point. Isn’t the dramatic soprano the exclamation point? asks Nina Stemme. The world’s reigning dramatic soprano talks to Jansson J Antmann ahead of her much-anticipated return to Hobart for a Wagner Gala with John Lundgren.
A season of Germanic highlights has plenty of gems away tucked in there for the curious.
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Trombone Jonathon Ramsay took out the grand prize at the 2019 Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments.
In his new concerto for Amy Dickson, Matthew Hindson harnesses the incredible flexibility of the soprano saxophone.
Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan's encore proves the highlight in this concert by the TSO.
An hour of peace and community with an otherworldly feel.
A teenage Clara Wieck shows her peers just how it’s done.
One of classical music’s famous failures, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto tanked at its premiere in 1806. What’s less well-known is how the notoriously difficult composer was persuaded to recast it for piano.
