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29 year old Melbourne cellist Richard Narroway has been announced winner of The Music Trust's 2020 Freedman Classical Fellowship. The prestigious $20,000 award is offered to an exceptional instrumentalist annually.

The Bard College Conservatory of Music has announced the faculty appointments of violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony. Shaham, one of the most celebrated violinists of his generation, performs regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and New York Philharmonic, among many others.

From tomorrow (Friday April 24) the ASQ will release new recordings by contemporary Australian composers and throughout 2020, across digital streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, and Youtube. During an unprecedented season of 'national hibernation', the Australian String Quartet continues to champion Australian art and music through digital realms.

Join us in the Bay Area for two very special performances in aid of Australia's endangered wildlife. Devastating fires, unprecedented in scale, have brought many species to the brink of extinction. Where Song Began is an ode to Australia, in particular its incredible songbirds and the landscapes they inhabit.

As his production of Richard Hawley and Chris Bush's Standing at the Sky's Edge opens in the Crucible, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres, Robert Hastie, announces programming for 2019.

On Sunday 11 November 2018, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is collaborating with artists and communities to present a unique theatrical performance marking 100 years of Australian wartime and peacekeeping service since the armistice that ended World War I.

The State Opera of South Australia's 2019 season boasts the most powerful and impressive program in recent times thanks to a new artistic and executive leadership for the company.

Andrew Blanch is at the forefront of young Australian musicians taking their place on the international music stage. The Sydney-based guitarist has won major prizes in ten music competitions both nationally and internationally, including First Prize at the Melbourne International Guitar Competition in 2016.

In one of the most ambitious commissioning and performance projects in recent years, world-renowned shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) master, Riley Lee, has joined forces with the Enigma Quartet to create an entirely new genre of music.

The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Most have announced that Afendi Yusuf will join the Orchestra as principal clarinet beginning with the start of the coming Severance Hall season in September 2017.

Renowned Australian pianist Bernadette Harvey has (with the assistance of the Australia Council, Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Fazioli pianos) commissioned gifted Australian composers three of them women - to write new works.

Andrew Blanch is at the forefront of young Australian musicians taking their place on the international music stage. The Sydney-based guitarist has won major prizes in ten music competitions both nationally and internationally, including First Prize at the Melbourne International Guitar Competition in 2016.

The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Most have announced that Afendi Yusuf will join the Orchestra as principal clarinet beginning with the start of the coming Severance Hall season in September 2017.

It would be difficult to find a musician more well-rounded than Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud. The Scandinavian virtuoso is famed for his extraordinary reach as an artist, with a career that spans across performer, artistic director, composer, arranger and improviser - an approach that recalls the style of early 20th-century icons, including Fritz Kreisler and Eugene Ysaye.

Flinders Quartet, Melbourne's premier string quartet, makes its debut appearance at North Sydney's spectacular Independent Theatre this June 18 - with special guest cellist, Timo-Veikko Valve - in a mouth-watering program of chamber pieces for strings by Schubert, Boccherini and Sculthorpe.

Oodles of fun for children will be on offer at Riverside Theatres this June and July with two family productions taking to the stage including Erth's Prehistoric Aquarium and Blinky Bill.

Houston Ballet announces a tour to Ludwigshafen and Bonn, Germany. From April 3-13, 2017, Houston Ballet will perform three works by Artistic Director Stanton Welch AM: Maninyas (1996), Velocity (2003), and Tapestry (2012). Audiences will have the opportunity to see three works by Mr. Welch that have cemented him as one of the most innovative and in-demand choreographers in the world.

A sleeping princess, a beloved symphony and a modern rhythmic masterpiece await at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's BNY Mellon Grand Classics weekend on February 10 and 12 at Heinz Hall.

Leading Australian chamber music ensemble, Southern Cross Soloists' 2017 concert season at Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is set to take audiences on a global music journey of the world's most inspired stories, featuring a selection of the finest classical musicians and vocalists.

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