| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 11-Apr-2013 Sage: Hall One | The land of the free: European exiles in America with the National Youth Orchestra |
 The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain brought a small dose of the Southbank Centre’s year long celebration of 20th-century music, The Rest is Noise, to the North East, with a programme of bold and colourful music written by European exiles in America, music that looked to the future, and music that celebrated the best of what had been left behind.
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| 7-Mar-2013 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Jazz trumpet meets the orchestra with the Sydney Symphony |
 For a composer who embraces the “popular” in music, using the subtitle High Art for his trumpet concerto is clearly a provocative but bold statement. Australian composer Graham Koehne has quoted Noël Coward’s play Private Lives, commenting: “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is”. However, despite the “popular” musical inspiration behind Koehne’s composition, few could claim that it is not “high art”.Read full review... | |
| 3-Feb-2013 The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre, Koerner Hall | Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier in Toronto |
 When French-Canadian pianists Louis Lortie and Hélène Mercier entered the stage of the Koerner Hall on Sunday, the 800-plus audience participated with an unprecedented level of attention. An episode also occurred to enforce this attention. When an anonymous concert-goer repeatedly started coughing during the recital, Lortie, feeling irritated, signalled a halt during the performance before commencing again. From then on, an aura surrounded these two pianists and the music they produced.Read full review... | |
| 1-Aug-2012 Sydney Opera House: Concert Hall | Symphonic Dances from the Sydney Symphony at the Opera House |
 Last night’s program with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was one of those to really get your teeth into, with substantial, complex works by Brahms and Rachmaninov, and only a short amount of respite provided by Dvořák. This was serious music in the form of the heavyweight Brahms Piano Concerto no. 1, which contains almost too much music to comprehend in one sitting. The Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances too are substantial in their form and structure.Read full review... | |
