Child’s Play
What makes a child prodigy ? We talk with some former Wunderkinds and artistic directors about how to nurture musically gifted children.
Shamistha de Soysa is a choral singer, pianist and writer. A retired medic, she runs the website SoundsLikeSydney, established and runs DocsVox NSW Doctors Choir, volunteered at Fine Music FM, and sang with Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Chorus for 12 years.
What makes a child prodigy ? We talk with some former Wunderkinds and artistic directors about how to nurture musically gifted children.
J.S. Bach's work as a teacher and mentor is spot lit in Bach Akademie Australia's season opening concert for 2024.
An eclectic, affecting program of unaccompanied music inspired by centuries of romantic pain and loss.
Superbloom is a sterling test of ensemble skill, versatility and musicianship – and of the listener's appetite for challenge.
In-concert operas are sometimes regarded as the poor relation of their fully staged cousins. But can less be more?
Baroque is back at the Sydney Opera House in the form of Handel's pungent tale of religious intolerance and sacrifice in a polarised society.
Pinchgut's superlative specialist cast of singers polish Handel's 1715 hit to a dazzling shine.
Bach Akademie Australia celebrates the tercentenary of the composer's appointment to his longest and most successful job.
The Song Company pays homage to the enduring brilliance of the English composer William Byrd, 400 years after his death.
Featuring innovative staging and superlative performances, Sydney Chamber Opera’s triple bill is a portrayal of humans on the brink.
The lecture-recital format may divide opinion, but Bach Akademie's music lifted hearts and souls heavenwards.
Bach Akademie Australia's new recital series blends the cosmologies of Australia's First Nations and the European Enlightenment with magical effect.
Close collaborators Elena Kats-Chernin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska pay heartfelt homage to Australia’s rich migrant history in Human Waves.