music / Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s ACTEWAGL Llewellyn Series, Llewellyn Hall, November 8. Reviewed by IAN McLEAN.
CHOREOGRAPHER Alison Plevey is all go. Hot on the heels of Plevey’s announcement yesterday (August 31), saying she will be the acting artistic director at QL2 Dance while Ruth Osborne is taking up a Churchill Fellowship […]
“AT the CSO we believe that life is better with music. It is our voice in love, heartbreak, joy and wonder; it is the universal language that expresses the inexpressible,” CEO of the Canberra Symphony […]
“SINGERS carry their souls on the outside”, Icelandic baritone Olafur Sigurdarson told the delighted crowds at the German Ambassador’s residence this morning (July 7) before launching into a positively wicked scene from “Don Giovanni” with […]
SYMPHONIC music isn’t normally associated with high-end fashion, but the Canberra Symphony Orchestra is about to change that with an imaginative fundraising initiative. Not content with mounting this week’s ActewAGL Llewellyn concert “Cello” featuring conductor Stanley […]
music / Canberra Symphony Orchestra. ActewAGL Llewellyn Series. March 29. Reviewed by CLINTON WHITE.
“LET’S have leadership,” composer Matthew Hindson told the Canberra Symphony Orchestra. “Let’s have a chamber series in which all the music is Australian”. Happily, the CSO was all for it and signed the well-known composer […]
AN excited group of young musicians from Goulburn Primary School joined professional musicians from the Canberra Symphony Orchestra on stage this morning at Llewellyn Hall for a thrilling concert. Viewed by members of the public, […]
At the 2015 Canberra International Music Festival there was no doubt about it – Australian percussionist Claire Edwardes was the standout star. Now the canny chief conductor and artistic director of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, […]
THE Canberra Symphony Orchestra has scored a coup in securing top Englsih violinist, Andrew Haveron, who will be making his Australian concerto debut with a performance of Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, part of the orchestra’s tribute […]
THE Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor and artistic director, Nicholas Milton, is gearing up for a spectacular opening to the 2015 season. Performing this Wednesday and Thursday, the orchestra will open the year’s concert season […]
THE Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s inaugural Christmas concert, “A CSO Christmas,” is due to bring a touch of the Northern Hemisphere into Llewellyn Hall this Saturday, December 6, with a mix of modern and traditional Christmas […]
THE Canberra Symphony Orchestra have announced they are raffling a sculpture by none other than Auguste Rodin. The CSO was somewhat surprised to be the beneficiaries of the work by one of the great masters, […]
LIBERAL Senator Zed Seselja has gleefully announced a $50,000 grant from his government to the Canberra Symphony Orchestra to put on a special Christmas show. “The Canberra Symphony Orchestra is a highly valued arts organisation […]
WHILE the Canberra Symphony Orchestra is busy promoting its coming concert as both “astrological” and “astronomical”, virtuoso didgeridoo player Mark Atkins has his feet firmly on the ground. I caught up with Atkins by phone […]
LIBBY HILL sees children with special needs touched by symphonic music
THE Canberra Symphony Orchestra is appealing to our more cultivated tastes in its second Llewellyn Series concert for 2012, with “an evening of refined elegance”. With the considerable appeal of visiting British conductor Andrew Mogrelia, […]
TWO leading Canberra arts organisations are among the front runners at the Australia Business Arts Foundation’s NSW and ACT AbaF (Australian Business Arts Foundation) awards reception last night. At the reception, hosted by the Governor […]
MORE than 9000 school students from around the region have taken part in the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Noteworthy music education program today. Noteworthy is the only free music program of its kind – offering students […]
NATALIE Richardson has been reported missing after she was last seen on Monday, April 23, morning in Curtin. Natalie, 42, is described as being Caucasian in appearance, approximately 150-160cm tall, of thin build, with blue […]
AN extraordinarily large European wasp nest in McKellar is the highlight in a record year of confirmed nests in the ACT. The McKellar nest measured 1.4 metres long, 80 centimetres high and 50 centimetres wide […]
WHEN JACKmail, a business that Sally Richards set up for her profoundly disabled son, Jackson West, hit two years she couldn’t believe it and now, it’s in its twelfth year, she’s amazed. Sally, 65, of […]
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares Canberra’s newest gallery openings
COPS and dogs executed 15 search warrants in Canberra as anti-drug Operation Tribulation swooped over the weekend. During the operation police seized: more than $100,000 in cash; six vehicles including two Ford Rangers, a Dodge Ram […]
