Tait Awardee, Luke Styles, former Young Composer-in-Residence at Glyndebourne is joined by principals of Britten Sinfonia, and Tenor Mark Padmore, for the London première of a new song cycle set to poems by Australian poet, Les Murray, On Bunyah. The programme is crowned by Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, which depicts rural life at a…
Month: May 2018
Courtenay Cleary to study at Juilliard
Tait Awardee, Courtenay Cleary, Violin (2017) is a graduate of the University of Queensland and Australian National Academy of Music. She is about to finish her under-graduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music and is to give public recitals at: Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT Courtenay Cleary…
In Conversation: Catherine Carby — Rehearsal Magazine
Australian mezzo-soprano Catherine Carby on Rossini, self-love and music preparation. You’re currently performing with the English Touring Opera in Rossini: Fireworks! Can you tell me about your first experience with Rossini – how it came about and how your relationship with the composer has grown since your career began? My very first experience with Rossini…
The Dowager Countess of Harewood (1926 – 2018)
We were honoured to have had the Dowager Countess of Harewood as our Patron for so many years. We go back such a long way and shared many wonderful times in London and Australia. She was always so supportive of our work, and we shall miss her presence enormously. We were terribly saddened to learn of her…