Music / Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio. At Llewellyn Hall, November 15. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD
THE Australian Songwriters Association’s National Song competition attracts thousands of song entries each year from around Australia and abroad and this year a Canberran has been named APRA/ASA Songwriter of the Year at Canterbury […]
CANBERRA Symphony Orchestra has announced that violinist Kirsten Williams will take on the role of CSO concertmaster in 2019. She replaces Barbara Jane Gilby in the role following Gilby’s retirement, and will be leading the […]
Music / “Tognetti’e Beethoven”. Australian Chamber Orchestra, at Llewellyn Hall, October 10. Reviewed by GRAHAM McDONALD
Music / “One-Equal-Music”. The Song Company. At Wesley Uniting Church, November 9. Reviewed by CLINTON WHITE
Music / Canberra Symphony Orchestra and Grace Clifford, violin. At Llewellyn Hall, November 8. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY
ONE of Australia’s top bands, the Royal Australian Navy Band, is coming to town to commemorate the centenary of the signing of the World War I Armistice. A free concert at Llewellyn Hall, it’s also […]
Music / “Portrait in French Music”. Kotaro Nagano. At Wesley Music Centre, November 2. Reviewed by JUDITH CRISPIN
Music / Emil Viklicky, piano; Miroslav Bukovsky, trumpet and John Mackey, saxophone. At Drill Hall Gallery, November 2. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.
SCHOOLS from Queanbeyan, Braidwood, Bungendore, Sutton, Gundaroo and the region will be among more than 3000 schools in the country taking part in Australia’s largest free school music participation program, “Music Count Us In”. The […]
WHEN Queenie van de Zandt hits the spotlight at the AIS Arena next week in the Queen musical “We Will Rock You”, she’ll be playing to a home crowd. For van de Zandt’s earliest theatrical […]
“I do think we can learn a little from the way Americans deal with their older artists. I think it’s true that the older a writer/performer gets, the better he/she gets,” writes JOHN SCHUMANN
TWO outstanding young students at the ANU School of Music will share $15,000 of prize money after the 2019 Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition. A tied first place went to pianist Mia Huang, a […]
Former CEO of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra IAN McLEAN looks back on artistic director Richard Gill’s influence on music in Canberra. Mr Gill died in Sydney on Sunday (October 28).
Music / Canberra Bach Ensemble, directed by Andrew Koll. At St Christopher Cathedral, Manuka, October 27 Reviewed by JUDITH CRISPIN
Music / Grevillea Quartet At Wesley Music Centre, October 28. Reviewed by CLINTON WHITE
Music / “Haydn, Handel & Mozart Favourite Arias”, Canberra Sinfonia, Conducted by Leonard Weiss, soloist Louise Page. At Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, October 27. Reviewed by LEN POWER
FORMER artistic director and chief conductor of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra Richard Gill has died in Sydney today (October 28) aged 76, from colorectal and peritoneal cancer. Widely credited with lifting the game of the […]
Music / “Forest of Dreams’. Callum Henshaw, classical guitar. At Wesley Music Centre, October 16. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY.
music / “Triple Concerto”, CSO Australian Series, National Portrait Gallery, October 25. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA.
A BLACK Yamaha motorcycle was travelling north on Yamba Drive when it collided with another vehicle turning from Yamba Drive into Dookie Street, Farrer, this morning (November 16). Emergency services blocked the road following the […]
TWO faculties from the University of Canberra are providing support for drought-affected rural communities, with a caravan of researchers leaving tomorrow (Saturday, November 17) for the pilot of the “Creative Arts and Rural Health Initiative” […]
A NGUNNAWAL woman, 30, has allegedly used the internet to bring drugs to Canberra through the postal system. Police searched the woman’s home after a package was given to police earlier in the year, which […]
TRAFFIC was brought to a halt on Thursday (November 15) when a man suddenly stopped his ute on William Slim Drive, got out and struck a white Toyota Camry a number of times. It was […]
MORE than 1200 cases of fraud have been reported in Canberra this year, says ACT Policing, as International Fraud Awareness Week comes to an end tomorrow (November 17). Acts of fraud cost the world about $3.7 […]
