In Conversation
170 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago -In Conversation is brought to you by 2MBS Fine Music Sydney.
In each episode, Simon Moore speaks to a figure in our artistic landscape, delving into all the detailed and interesting facets of their life, from the trivial to the profound. Our guest also introduces some musical extracts that are meaningful to them.
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Lyndon Terracini AM
September 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBLyndon Terracini has certainly left his mark on Australian opera – and he’s not done yet. He has been Artistic Director of Opera Australia since 2009, however his association with opera goes back decades, having first appeared with the company as a baritone in the 1970s. His operatic career took him to his ancestral home of Italy, though he made frequent visits back to Australia to perform here too. Lovers of opera will be aware that he’s about to embark on his final year as Opera Australia...
In Conversation: Lyndon Terracini AM
September 07, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBLyndon Terracini has certainly left his mark on Australian opera – and he’s not done yet. He has been Artistic Director of Opera Australia since 2009, however his association with opera goes back decades, having first appeared with the company as a baritone in the 1970s. His operatic career took him to his ancestral home of Italy, though he made frequent visits back to Australia to perform here too. Lovers of opera will be aware that he’s about to embark on his final year as Opera Australia...
In Conversation: Eric Whitacre
August 31, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBFor Eric Whitacre, everything seems possible. The music of this Grammy-award winning composer and conductor has been performed in all corners of the world. He has united 100,000 singers in more than 145 countries for his ground breaking Virtual Choirs, his debut album as a conductor, Light and Gold, went straight to the top of the charts, and he’s even collaborated with NASA – his composition Deep Field having been inspired by the Hubble Telescope, leading him to work on a film seen at arts ...
In Conversation: Brendan Joyce
August 24, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBOne of Australia’s most celebrated violinists, Brendan Joyce is the artistic director of Camerata, Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra. His leadership has been described by critics as both dynamic and indefatigable, which is why it’s unsurprising he often appears around Australia with such organisations as the Orchestra of the Antipodes, Van Diemen's Band, and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. In this conversation, Brendan talks about helping to rebuild and reinvigorate Camerata under his le...
In Conversation: Daniel Dodds
August 17, 2022 04:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBA violinist who has performed on every continent, Adelaide-born Daniel Dodds is the Artistic Director of Festival Strings Lucerne. He’ll be back in Australia to appear as Concertmaster of the Australian World Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, for performances in Melbourne and Sydney. It is said he elicits “joie de vivre” from fellow musicians and audiences alike, which is apparent in the positivity he expresses about his playing and the repertoire he’s chosen to share with us in thi...
In Conversation EXTRA: Amy Manford
August 11, 2022 06:07 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBAustralian soprano Amy Manford has already played Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera on the West End and in Athens, and is about to appear in the upcoming production at the Sydney Opera House and the Arts Centre in Melbourne. She also co-runs MM Creative Productions, which produced Disney in Concert A Dream is a Wish, in Perth last year in which she also appeared. An edited version of this conversation was broadcast on Fine Music Breakfast on 11 August, howev...
In Conversation: Guy Simpson
August 10, 2022 04:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBThe musical theatre scene in Australia and around the world owes a great deal to Guy Simpson. He has been supervising productions of The Phantom of the Opera for over 30 years around the world, from South Africa to New Zealand, Brazil to the Philippines. He has a similarly long association with productions of Miss Saigon, and has been instrumental in countless others – from the larger scale, like Evita and West Side Story, to the intimate, such as Anna O’Byrne’s recent one woman show Becomin...
In Conversation: Jack Liebeck
August 03, 2022 04:00 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week, In Conversation is on tour, coming to you from the Australian Festival of Chamber Music, in Townsville. The Festival’s new Artistic Director is British/German Violinist Jack Liebeck. His music ranges from the intricacy of Mozart through to the passion of contemporary Australian works by Brett Dean. He’s on a whopping 17 albums, including playing on the film scores of Jane Eyre and Anna Karenina, has a keen interest in science to the extent that he’s collaborated with Professor Br...
In Conversation: Simon Burke AO
July 27, 2022 04:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBAn actor whose career on the stage, film and television is approaching half a century and still going strong, Simon Burke burst onto the scene in the highly acclaimed Devil’s Playground at the age of 13. He won the AFI Award for Best Actor for that performance – still to this day the youngest person to receive that honour. His career since has included appearances on television which are embedded in the Australian psyche – from The Sullivans through to Rake and everything in between, includi...
In Conversation: Hayden Tee
July 20, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBHayden Tee is not just a triple threat, he’s more of a quadruple one – an actor, singer, make-up artist, and also now a director. He knows a thing or two about musical theatre, having played Javert in Les Misérables in multiple countries, including on the West End, Broadway and on these shores. He’s appeared in Matilda, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, and Into the Woods, to name just a few, his cabaret shows have been a hit in New York and in Australia, and he’s released three albums. Based in ...
In Conversation: Simon Tedeschi
July 13, 2022 04:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBOne of Australia’s most beloved and renowned pianists, Simon Tedeschi has played with all the major Australian orchestras, and is a seasoned chamber musician and collaborator too. He’s recorded a vast swath of albums covering music from JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti to Mark Isaacs and Mike Nock, with a decent chunk of George Gershwin too. He’s also a writer, with his first book, Fugitive, published in May, simultaneous with winning the Calibre Essay prize for his essay This Woman, My Grandm...
In Conversation: William Barton
July 06, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBAustralia’s foremost Indigenous classical composer and performer, William Barton has performed internationally with the London and Berlin Philharmonia Orchestras, and in this country with all the premier orchestras. From Kalkadunga heritage, he has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo with his prodigious musicality. Simon Moore speaks to William as part of NAIDOC Week 2022. William shares insights about the importance of the instrument and how it varies in different parts of the c...
In Conversation: Leah Crocetto
June 29, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBAmerican soprano Leah Crocetto continues to astonish audiences with her moving portrayals of opera’s greatest heroines. She has performed across America, in such seminal operas as Turandot, Otello and Norma, in venues from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Centre to the Metropolitan Opera. She’s also sung the title role of Aida with Opera Australia, and is about to appear as Leonora in Il Trovatore. Leah has a particular love of music and shares some works that are very special to her which pro...
In Conversation: Philippe Klaus
June 22, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBMaking his film debut in Wolf Creek 2, Philippe Klaus has been in such Australian dramas as Rake and Home & Away. He’s appeared on stage with the Old Fitz Theatre, and toured his one man show with the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals. His next gig, though, is a bit of a contrast – appearing in the title role in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, the next show from Endangered Production, from June 30 to July 3 at the Paddington RSL. It’s to be performed as it was meant to be – with singers, actors, da...
In Conversation: Timo-Veikko Valve
June 15, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBA much-loved cellist who Australia has adopted from his native Finland, Timo-Veikko Valve (known as Tipi) came to this country to become principal cellist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra 16 years ago, a position he has held ever since. He spreads his wings far beyond the ACO, making frequent guest appearances with chamber groups across the country, and of course has played across Europe, North America and Asia. He'll be featured as a soloist in the upcoming ACO tour titled simple “Bach”,...
In Conversation: David Rowden
June 08, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBInternationally renowned clarinettist David Rowden has performed throughout Europe, Asia, North America, as well as Australia. Not content with being just a soloist, he founded the Omega Ensemble, championing Australian musical talent, and has picked up plenty of APRA/AMCOS classical music nominations along the way. His playing has been described by critics as possessing “superb technique and artistry”. In this conversation with Simon Moore, David talks about his earlier career, and also ta...
In Conversation: James Beck
June 01, 2022 04:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBThrough the Sydney Art Quartet, founder James Beck connects audiences with layered, multi-sensory experiences based on live music woven with contrasting art forms and the wider world of history, arts & sciences. In the pursuit of that goal, he’s performed over 150 original Art Quartet shows with a cross section of some of Australia’s most vibrant creative voices. Previously the Artistic Manager of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, he is well versed in bringing historic music artefacts to...
In Conversation: Julia Fredersdorff
May 25, 2022 04:00 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBJulia Fredersdorff is a violinist who has planted her flag very firmly with the Baroque violin – so much so, that she was the first student at the Victorian College of the Arts to study the instrument, separate from the modern violin. After a period in Europe playing with some of their finest ensembles, she returned to Australia to found the perfectly titled Van Diemen’s Band, as well as playing frequently as concertmaster with the Orchestra of the Antipodes, period string quartet Ironwood a...
In Conversation: Anne Wood
May 18, 2022 04:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBA multi-award winning actress, Anne Wood has been strutting the stage both here and overseas in musical theatre for over 30 years. Whether it’s Cats or Mamma Mia, Crazy for You or The Sound of Music, she’s covered the full spectrum of what the genre has to offer. Melbourne based, she’s currently in Sydney playing Madame Baurel in An American in Paris, now playing at the Theatre Royal. Anne shares plenty of fun stories about her love of theatre and working in the industry, from her start in ...
In Conversation: Anna O'Byrne
May 11, 2022 04:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBA soprano and actress who has established an international career spanning opera, theatre, concert and film, Anna O’Byrne has performed with the likes of Anthony Warlow and Emma Thompson, sung for Charles and Camilla, and appeared in everything from West Side Story to Barnum, and Guys and Dolls to A Little Night Music. But her most well known role on these shores was as Eliza Doolittle in the 60th Anniversary production of My Fair Lady, at the Sydney Opera House, for which she won the Helpma...
In Conversation: Leah Purcell AM
May 04, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes - 61.2 MBAn internationally acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, director, novelist and actor, not to mention cultural icon and activist, Leah Purcell stands at the forefront of the Indigenous cultural renaissance and protest movement. A proud Goa-Gungarri-Wakka Wakka Murri woman, she is well known to audiences in Australia and around the world for her many roles, including in Wentworth, Redfern Now, Jindabyne and Lantana. In this conversation, Leah takes a deep dive with Simon Moore into her new film...
In Conversation: Francesca Hiew
April 27, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBBrisbane born Francesca Hiew was quite the child prodigy. Her career took her to the United States at the age of just 9 and in her later studies she won every chamber music competition she entered – often twice! She’s appeared as soloist with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra Victoria, was part of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and is now one quarter of the Australian String Quartet. Francesca speaks with Simon Moore about her intensely musical upbringing, her love of chamber...
In Conversation: Skye McIntosh
April 20, 2022 04:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBA sought-after specialist in baroque and classical period violin in Australia, Skye McIntosh is the founder, artistic director and principle violin of the Australian Haydn Ensemble. For the last decade, they’ve made their mark on historically informed performance practice in this country. Skye speaks with Simon Moore about one of Haydn’s greatest works, The Creation, and talks about her own journey falling in love with period instruments and performance practice which led to the birth of th...
In Conversation: Dene Olding AM
April 13, 2022 07:06 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBOne of Australia’s most distinguished violinists, Dene Olding has a long history with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, having been their Concertmaster for two separate stints. He’s performed as a concerto soloist in Australia and internationally, whether it be performing the great concertos of the past or premiering new works. A member of the Australia Ensemble, he’s also first violinist of the renowned Goldner String Quartet. In this conversation, Simon Moore speaks with Dene about his long ...
In Conversation: John Bell AO OBE
April 06, 2022 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBA celebrated actor and director, John Bell has been a driving force in the shape and direction of Australian Theatre for more than half a century. A former Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK, he’s performed all of Shakespeare’s seminal roles, often several times over. He’s also formed two theatre companies, one of which still bears his name. In this conversation, John Bell shares with Simon Moore some of the highlights of his long and distinguished career, the evo...
In Conversation: Christopher Gordon
March 30, 2022 03:00 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MBA composer across a full spectrum of genres, Christopher Gordon has written for Australia’s leading orchestras, for major events such as the 2006 Commonwealth Games, has penned ballets, and scores for films such as Master and Commander, Mao’s Last Dancer and Ladies in Black. In this program, Christopher talks candidly with Simon Moore about his unorthodox entry into composing after recovering from alcoholism in his early adulthood, the ins and outs of writing music for the screen, as well a...
In Conversation: Leonard Weiss
March 23, 2022 03:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBAn exciting and dynamic young conductor, Leonard Weiss has made a name for himself with the Canberra Sinfonia, and the Sydney, Queensland and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, to name just a few. He’s the inaugural winner of the Conductor NSW Orchestral Early Career Fellowship with the Sydney Youth Orchestras in conjunction with Create NSW, and was recognised as the “rising star of 2020” by John Hopkins University during his time there. Leonard is incredibly articulate and entertaining, talkin...
In Conversation: Callum Francis
March 16, 2022 03:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBHe made the role of Lola in Kinky Boots his own, performing it on three continents, including on Broadway and the West End, and winning a Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical for his performance on these shores. He’s also appeared in such seminal musicals as Rent, The Lion King and Miss Saigon. Callum features as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, on Sydney Harbour from March 25. He speaks candidly about the importance of being a person of colour cast as the romantic lead, and th...
In Conversation: Emily Granger
March 09, 2022 03:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBOne of Australia’s leading harpists, Emily Granger has performed across the world, including as Principal Harp of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Sydney, Tasmanian & Canberra Symphony Orchestras. She’s played for presidents and prime ministers, presented recitals from the Sydney Opera House to Carnegie Hall, and performed with international artists such as Yo-Yo Ma and Jonas Kaufmann. Simon Moore speaks with Emily about her new solo album “In Transit”, and we delve into her t...
In Conversation: Constantine Costi
March 02, 2022 03:00 - 56 minutes - 51.3 MBA regular director with Opera Australia, Constantine Costi was responsible last year for the triumphant production of La Traviata on Sydney Harbour. He’s worked with other leading Australian arts companies including Pinchgut Opera and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and is co-artistic director of Red Line Productions at Sydney’s Old Fitz. Simon Moore speaks with Con in the lead up to him taking on Halevy’s La Juive with Opera Australia, to be performed on these shores for the first tim...
In Conversation: Amber McMahon
February 23, 2022 03:00 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBMulti-Helpmann Award winner Amber McMahon plays Eve Kendall, one of the ultimate Hitchcock Femme Fatales, in the stage adaptation of North by Northwest at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre from the 9th of March. In this conversation, Simon Moore takes Amber on a deep dive into her 20 year stage career and delve into the craft of acting. She’s worked with Cate Blanchett, picnicked at Hanging Rock, and climbed Mount Rushmore in high heels.
In Conversation: Vladimir Fanshil
February 16, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBHe is a conductor who has fast established himself as a versatile artist covering the symphonic, operatic and ballet genres. He’s made a splash in Europe with such orchestras as the Mariinsky, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Odessa National Philharmonic. He and his wife, soprano Eleanor Lyons, have more recently created Live at Yours, an exciting and ever growing project, bringing top quality artists to unique and intimate settings. Vladimir speaks with Simon Moore about the creati...
In Conversation: Jeanell Carrigan AM
February 09, 2022 03:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBJeanell Carrigan is an Associate Professor in the Collaborative Piano Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has performed throughout Australia and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative duo partner. Her area of research is Australian solo piano repertoire and more recently in the piano music composed by early 20th Century Australian women composers. She’s released 32 albums of solo Australian piano and chamber works and has written several books. In this conversat...
In Conversation: Jeanell Carrigan
February 09, 2022 03:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBJeanell Carrigan is an Associate Professor in the Collaborative Piano Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. She has performed throughout Australia and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative duo partner. Her area of research is Australian solo piano repertoire and more recently in the piano music composed by early 20th Century Australian women composers. She’s released 32 albums of solo Australian piano and chamber works and has written several books. In this conversat...
In Conversation: Todd McKenney
February 02, 2022 03:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBHe is a man who has entertained Australia for over 30 years. He’s danced on film in Strictly Ballroom, stepped into stilettos for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, donned top hat and whip for a tightrope-walking PT Barnum, and everything in between – including West Side Story, Singing in the Rain, The Pirates Penzance, Cabaret, and Anything Goes. But perhaps his most well-known performance has been to bring entertainer Peter Allen back to life in the original Australian production of The Boy fr...
In Conversation: Henning Kraggerud
September 22, 2021 04:24 - 47 minutes - 108 MBIt’s difficult to find a more well-rounded musician than violinst Henning Kraggerud. The Norwegian virtuoso has had a career that covers everything – a soloist, composer, arranger, improviser, plus he’s the Artistic Director of the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. The discussion, from when he was visiting Australia in 2017 to guest direct the Australian Chamber Orchestra, provides some fascinating insights into his multi-faceted approach to music-making in his composing, arranging an...
In Conversation: Pekka Kuusisto
September 15, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 107 MB(Originally aired in September 2021) If you’ve ever had the chance to see Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto perform live, you’ll know he is quite the entertainer. It’s been said that he strips every piece, however familiar it is, back to first principles, and we get to hear it as if for the first time. At the time of this conversation in 2016, he had just been appointed artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s emerging artists ensemble – ACO Collective – a position he held un...
In Conversation: Olli Mustonen
September 08, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 83.8 MB(Originally aired in September 2021) Olli Mustonen is music's ultimate triple threat – a virtuosic pianist, an extraordinary conductor, and an outstanding composer. He speaks to host Simon Moore about his start playing the harpsichord from the age of 5 in his native Finland, as well as sharing a story about a misprint in a program which led to him to having to rearrange one of his chamber works for full orchestra, and how he prefers the simple word “musician” to cover his many talents. T...
In Conversation: Dean Bryant
July 07, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 133 MB(Originally aired in July 2021) Dean Bryant is a multi-award winning theatre director and writer. He has a string of directorial credits, including (with the Melbourne Theatre Company, where he was associate director from 2016 thru 2019): The Lady in the Van and An Ideal Husband; for Opera Australia Anything Goes; and for the Hayes he directed Assassins, as well as their debut production Sweet Charity, for which he won the Helpmann award for 'Best Director of a Musical', and to top it all o...
In Conversation: Shane Placentino
June 30, 2021 04:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MB(Originally aired in June 2021) Shane Placentino has made the move from ballet dancer, to choreographer, and now opera director. He began his career with the Australian Ballet in 1991, dancing the entire classical and contemporary repertoire. He went on to be with the Sydney Dance Company from 2002, but more recently he’s hung up his dance shoes and moved into direction with Opera Australia - currently being the Revival Director for Aida, which opened at the Sydney Opera House on 22 June, a...
In Conversation: Sam Allchurch
June 23, 2021 04:32 - 57 minutes - 133 MB(Originally aired in June 2021) Sam Allchurch is at the forefront of the next generation of choral music. In 2019 he became artistic director of the Sydney Chamber Choir at just 29, following in the footsteps of the late, great Richard Gill. He’s also Associate Artistic Director of Gondwana Choirs, and Director of Music at Christ Church St Lawrence which has a musical tradition going all the way back to 1845. He’s been praised for polished and deeply satisfying performances of smart and so...
In Conversation: Natalie Aroyan
June 16, 2021 04:00 - 48 minutes - 111 MB(Originally aired in June 2021) Natalie Aroyan is an Armenian-Australian soprano whose voice has graced the stages of Opera Australia as a principal artist since 2013. She has performed leading roles in Aida, La Boheme, Ernani, and Carmen to name just a few. In 2019 she was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Female Performer in a Supporting Role, and later this month, she will be hitting the stage once again as Odabella in Attila, Verdi’s story of Attila the Hun.
In Conversation: Neal Peres Da Costa
June 09, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 139 MB(Originally aired in June 2021) Neal Peres Da Costa is Australia’s authority in historically informed performance on the keyboard. Whether it’s the harpsichord, fortepiano or organ, Neal has performed with all of this country’s leading ensembles, including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Australian Haydn Ensemble, the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, and several of the top orchestras in this area internationally, most notably the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orc...
In Conversation: Josh Piterman
June 02, 2021 04:00 - 49 minutes - 113 MB(Originally aired in June 2021) It’s 35 years since The Phantom of the Opera opened on London’s West End, making it one of the most successful musicals of all time. It was still playing there until COVID hit early last year, where Australian Josh Piterman was performing in the title role. Josh Piterman will be donning that famous mask once again in September, this time at the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House. Kicking off his career in The Ten Tenors, he’s appeared in musi...
In Conversation: Alexander Briger AO
May 26, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 177 MB(Originally aired in May 2021) Alexander Briger is a conductor who has worked with more orchestras than can be easily listed – pick an orchestra in Australia or Europe, and you can be pretty certain he has conducted them, and that’s before you start adding his work in opera. He counts luminaries like Charles Mackerras and Pierre Boulez among his mentors. Alexander is back in Australia to once again conduct his brain child, the Australian World Orchestra, this June. In 2016, Alexander becam...
In Conversation: Amy Campbell
May 19, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 125 MB(Originally aired in May 2021) Amy Campbell is one of Australia’s most accomplished dance talents, with a career spanning all areas of the entertainment industry. Her choreographic credits include 'Once', which is returning to the Darlinghurst Theatre from 3 June, 'In The Heights', 'Violet', 'Hair', 'An Act Of God', 'Spring Awakening', 'Oklahoma', and 'Carmen'. Later in the year, her new production of 'A Chorus Line' is back after being suspended on the day of the premiere last year due ...
In Conversation: Noel Cislowski AM
May 13, 2021 03:07 - 54 minutes - 124 MB(Originally aired in May 2021) Noel Cislowski has a long and rich career as a teacher, lecturer, actor, producer, conductor and director. He has performed lead roles in musical comedy, and has appeared as narrator/singer in works such as Peter And The Wolf and Tubby the Tuba with the Sydney Symphony and Willoughby Symphony Orchestras. His passion for education is perhaps best expressed by the fact he is Chair of the Sydney Eisteddfod, one of the largest and most successful competitive per...
In Conversation: Belinda McFarlane
May 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 149 MB(Originally aired in May 2021) Violinist Belinda McFarlane is a stalwart with the London Symphony Orchestra. She’s come back to Australia to play with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and in June will be appearing with the Australian World Orchestra. She spoke to Simon with great passion about her role with the LSO’s Discover Team, which includes outreach into disadvantaged communities, helping to ensure that everyone can share in the joy of music.
In Conversation: Van-Anh Nguyen
April 28, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MB(Originally aired in April 2021) Van-Anh Nguyen is a passionate and versatile pianist, producer, composer – and fashionista! She’s performed around the world and released 8 albums, topped the classical iTunes chart in both the US and Australia, and spends most of her time between her home town of Sydney and her adopted second home of Los Angeles. Van-Anh chatted to Simon ahead of her Australia-wide tour.
In Conversation: Richard Carroll
April 21, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MB(Originally aired in April 2021) Richard Carroll is a Sydney based director, writer and producer. One of the co-founders of the Hayes Theatre, his 2017 production of Calamity Jane won him a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production of an Independent Musical, and a nomination as Best Director. His directing and producing credits also include Monty Python’s Spamalot, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Sweet Charity, Mame, and Meet Me in St Louis. In 2019, his season of Once at the Darlinghurst Theatre Com...