Under music director Richard Tognetti, the Australian Chamber Orchestra has evolved into a dynamic, youthful ensemble whose performances of classical and contemporary repertoire have a flair about ...

Last year, I had a bit of a rant about Pierre Boulez and his baleful influence on the postwar music scene. It was the centenary of his birth and—de mortuis nil nisi bonum and all that—I was perhaps a ...

Back in Ottawa to sing a recital this month, I thought again of what I had written on my last visit at the end of 2023. Ottawa, I had learnt, was chosen to be the Canadian capital city in the late ...