BARRY O’SULLIVAN PROFILES A MULTI-TALENTED ARTIST

As a pianist, composer, educator and bandleader, Mike Nock has made a huge impact on the Australian jazz scene over the past three decades, an outstanding contribution that has been acknowledged by his receipt of the prestigious Don Banks Award  in 2014. Born in Christchurch in 1940 Mike’s life in music as a prolific composer and recording artist spans some 60 years from his early days in New Zealand to playing jazz on the world stage.

In Conversation, 2pm Wednesdays

Australia has furnished the musical world with some of its finest singers, many sadly who have been forced to leave our shores due to lack of work here. One such is the operatic tenor Hubert Francis who left our shores in 1996 and following two years on the Royal Opera House Covent Garden’s Young Artist Programme has been performing in some of the world’s great opera houses. A family accident has brought Hubert back to Australia to help look after the family farm and 1300 sheep currently suffering from the worst drought on record in Central New South Wales, but he’s found time to come to Sydney and will be Michael Morton-Evans’s guest on In Conversation at 2pm on Wednesday, September 26th. From Tosca in London to sheep dip in Wellington – it’s a varied life indeed.

​CD of the Week: Night Flowers | Ambre Hammond

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Australian concert pianist and composer Ambre Hammond releases her latest album of original music, entitled Night flowers. 24 short pieces for solo piano, inspired by stunning photographs of flowers taken at night by photographer James O'Toole, in the gardens around Sydney. Ambre immortalised these images in this album of exquisite original compositions. 
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Fine Music subscribers have a chance to win the CD of the Week courtesy of Ambre Hammond. Enter below for your chance to win. The winner is drawn at 10AM Monday to Friday.

September Magazine

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