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CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT APPLE WITH STRINGS ATTACHED[3 November 2011]
The Sydney Conservatorium of Music has teamed up with Apple to offer Christmas shoppers at Apple's George Street store something different in the way of live music, every Thursday in November. More
BEIJING HONOUR[3 November 2011]
On an official visit to China, last week, the Dean & Principal of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Professor Kim Walker, received an unexpected honour from the President of Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, Professor Wang Cizhao. More
ENDTIME[28 October 2011]
At the end of 2011, Professor Kim Walker will complete her second term as Dean & Principal of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a role she commenced in 2004. In a fitting tribute to her tenure as Dean, during which The Con has achieved unprecedented international ecognition, the SCM Symphony Orchestra will take on the challenge of Mahler's magnificent Ninth Symphony, under their Maestro, Professor Imre Palló, in a concert aptly titled "Endtime". More
Circus Maximus[19 August 2011]
CIRCUS MAXIMUS, one of the highlights of this year's Art&About Sydney festival, is a musical work that has never been performed in Australia and only very rarely elsewhere in the world, because of the sheer scale and the number of musicians required to stage it. More
CONGRATULATIONS![11 August 2011]
Conservatorium staff, students and alumni are celebrating a number of recent successes and awards. Associate Professor Kathryn Marsh and Lecturer in Music Education, Dr Jennifer Rowley, have each been awarded grants in excess of $200,000 by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC). More
CON OPERA STUDENTS TRIUMPH[28 July 2011]
The first of the year's major opera awards, the 2011 Lady Mary Fairfax New York Opera Scholarship, has been won by Clarissa Spata, who graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2004 as a Bachelor in Music Performance with distinction in Voice. More
TAKING GLASS TO CHINA[27 July 2011]
A Lecturer in Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Damien Ricketson, is about to tour China with his innovative work, Fractured Again, performed by the group that he co-directs, Ensemble Offspring. This major multimedia production explores music made out of glass. More
CON COMPOSERS HIT NEW HIGHS[22 July 2011]
Associate Prof Matthew Hindson AM, Chair of Composition at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, is delighted by the number and variety of recent successes that he has to report for the whole range of Con composers: students, alumni and faculty members are having their new music performed all over the world. More
STRINGS WINS AT ABC AND KU-RING-GAI[7 July 2011]
Two of Robin Wilson's violin students, Emily Sun and Grace Clifford, have won the major prizes in the ABC Young Performer of the Year (String Section) and the Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic Orchestra NSW Concerto Competition. More
In the media - Classical music decides to rock [The Australian][16 June 2011]
It must be one of the strangest musical marriages on record: a shy composer whose austere music reaches into the realm of metaphysics; and a young virtuoso whose instrument of choice is that very emblem of rock 'n' roll hedonism, the electric guitar. More
In the media - Classical music decides to rock [The Australian][16 June 2011]
It must be one of the strangest musical marriages on record: a shy composer whose austere music reaches into the realm of metaphysics; and a young virtuoso whose instrument of choice is that very emblem of rock 'n' roll hedonism, the electric guitar. More
SCM STUDENTS DOMINATE ABC YOUNG PERFORMER AWARDS FINALS[8 June 2011]
Third year Piano student Nicholas Young pipped Con Open Academy Rising Star, York Yu, in the Keyboards Final on Thursday 9 June. Four more students and one SCM graduate will compete in the Other Instruments and Strings Finals later in June. More