Tonight Australian conductor (and Chair of the Tait Music Board) Jessica Cottis conducts the world premiere of Gavin Higgins and Francesca Simon‘s opera The Monstrous Child at the newly re-opened Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House. Directed by Timothy Sheader, designed by Paul Wills, with singers Marta Fontanals-Simmonds, Daniel Shelvey, Rosie Aldridge, Tom Randle, Lucy Schaufer, Graeme Broadbent, and Elizabeth…
Category: Australian Artist update
Andrey Lebedev, Classical Guitar | August 2018 Newsletter
Andrey Lebedev (2016-2017 Awardee) has enjoyed a busy few months with several exciting projects and awards to announce. Highlights have been: Awarded the inaugural New Elizabethan Award in duo with singer Lotte Betts-Dean. The prize includes a recital at Wigmore Hall on 9th February 2019. Placing 3rd at the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition. Realising Death Speaks, an innovative…
Tait Awardees, Rebecca Blenkinsop and Breanna Foad join English National Ballet
Below is an article recently published in Ballet News about Tait Awardee, Rebecca Blenkinsop. Rebecca has been supported by an award from the Tait funded by Australian Impressario, John Frost AM. We are delighted to see she has had such great success. Good news come in twos as another Leanne Benjamin Awards recipient, Breanna Foad has…
Luke Styles new song cycle | London première at Wigmore Hall
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…
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…
Chloe Keneally on dancing role of Odette in My First Ballet: Swan Lake – English National Ballet
Following the opening of My First Ballet: Swan Lake in London last week, hear from one of its stars, English National Ballet School student Chloe Keneally. She performs the iconic role of Odette in this version of the classic ballet for young children. What or who inspired you to take up ballet? Can you remember…
“Hear My Soul Speak” Finding Prospero in Shakespeare’s verbal music.
A performance research presentation from Shakespeare’s The Tempest 3 performances only at London Theatre Workshop EC3V. April 13-14. This work-in-progress multi-media performance explores the mind and persona of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic protagonist, Prospero. It does so by investigating the dramatic ramifications of sound patterning in Shakespeare’s poetry—what Peter Brook has referred to as the “verbal music” to…
In Conversation: Jayson Gillham | Rehearsal Magazine
Jayson Gillham is a featured artist in our 25th Anniversary Concert, Stuart Skelton sings Wagner at St Paul’s Church Knightsbridge on Wednesday 13 September at 7pm. Tickets are still available book here via this link Fascinating Q&A with him published in Melbourne based Rehearsal Magazine. On homesickness, networking and practice techniques. Your newly released third…