Cutting Edge: Infusing hip-hop and classical
It is vital the classical music world embraces new music by First Nations artists, so we learn to respect and understand their music and culture.
It is vital the classical music world embraces new music by First Nations artists, so we learn to respect and understand their music and culture.
We speak to artist Jonathan Zawada about his 3D light sculpture, which takes the sails of the Sydney Opera House as its monumental canvas.
The pianist recorded his atmospheric first album in his kitchen at night – in spite of the neighbours – but now thanks to Internet success he’s touring the world.
Music and storytelling combine in a performance that brings narrative archetypes to life.
To celebrate John Adams' 70th birthday, Andrew Mogrelia will conduct scenes from Nixon in China for Opera Australia.
Opera Australia performs at Vivid Live for the first time with a concert featuring music by Adams, Dessner and Greenwood.
★★★★☆ Intel’s Drone 100 lights up the Sydney sky with sparkling and synchronised aerial acrobatics.
The annual festival of lights, art and ideas sounds as good as it looks, as it reaches this year’s halfway point.
★★★☆☆ Interactive installation blossomed with new music.
With less than a week to go, Vivid Sydney reveals some of the lavish displays set to light up the night.
Hypnotic work will be performed at a bleary-eyed sleepover at the Sydney Opera House.
The German electronic music giants are set to headline this year’s festival of sound and light. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
The Sydney Camerata Quartet are fortunate to be one of Musica Viva’s “Rising Stars” ensembles this year. Along with our friends in the Enigma Quartet and Streeton Trio, we’re receiving masterclasses with both local and international artists and presenting concerts with the assistance of Musica Viva. It’s an exciting opportunity that we’re thrilled to be a part of and we hope you’ll join us for some of our performances throughout the year as we showcase what we’ve been working on. A number of our events will take place in unusual spaces, such as the pop-up concert the Enigma Quartet performed last week as part of the Vivid Festival at an intimate heritage venue in The Rocks. This past week we made our Rising Stars debut at two masterclasses, one with Aiko Goto of the Australian Chamber Orchestra and another with Julian Smiles of the Goldner Quartet. Both players brought a wealth of experience to contribute to our rehearsals. We worked on Prokofiev’s String Quartet No 1 and Haydn’s Op 33/3 The Bird. As any chamber musician would know, one can work in such incredible detail and we spent time particularly on the Haydn, working bar by bar to focus on intonation and achieve a……