Soprano Anna Stephens wins the 2018 Young Virtuoso Award!

Congratulations to 22 year-old soprano Anna Stephens who was announced as the winner of the 2018 Fine Music Young Virtuoso of the Year Award!

Anna will now go on to represent Fine Music 102.5 in the 2018 National Fine Music Network Young Virtuoso of the Year Award next month.

​Listen to all of the performances online now!

Meet 2019 Fine Music Kruger Scholar

Composer, singer and actor Nicholas Gentile was announced as the 2019 Fine Music Kruger Scholar at the annual Fine Music 102.5 Celebration of Fine Music event, held on Wednesday 26 September at the Mosman Art Gallery. Nicholas has established himself in the music industry with shining testimonials concerning theatre, performance and composition. His winning project, The Propagation of Fire, is an original opera based on love and passion.

ELD: Puttin' on the Ritz: Irving Berlin and his Music

The great composer Irving Berlin was born in Imperial Russia and moved to America when he was five. For his first composition he received just 33 cents for the rights. He would go on to be one of the most successful composers of popular song, penning some 1,500 songs and writing the scores for 20 Broadway musicals and 15 films. In this talk we will explore his long life (he lived to 101), his music, his legacy and his ‘rags to riches’ story. There will be a special focus on the music Berlin composed for the films of Fred Astaire by presenter Christopher Waterhouse, who presents the Friday Jazz Session on Fine Music.

Details: Sunday 21 October, 2.30pm, Fine Music Centre​

​CD of the Week: Mozart Symphonies | Eugen Jochum

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A recent release from Decca Eloquence will feature momentous recordings of Mozart’s symphonies (35, 36, 38, 41) by the Concertgebouw Orchestra. For the first time, Decca will be releasing Eugen Jochum’s historic recordings of  Mozart’s Haffner symphony and Jupiter symphony made in December 1960. There is both liveliness and grandeur to Jochum’s Mozart. These are monumental interpretations in the German tradition, particularly that of the ‘Linz’ Symphony, inflected with unfailing grace and good taste. Also featured is Mozart’s elegant ‘Posthorn’ Serenade, with Jochum’s predecessor Eduard van Beinum conducting.
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Fine Music subscribers have a chance to win the CD of the Week courtesy of Universal Music. Enter below for your chance to win. The winner is drawn at 10AM Monday to Friday.

October Magazine OUT NOW

In Conversation RETURNS IN NOVEMBER!

In Conversation will be in recess for the month of October. Michael Morton-Evans will be back with the programme on Wednesday, November 7th. Meanwhile please enjoy some of the past programmes by clicking on the link below.

Upcoming Events

Fine Music CD Fair
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 October
​Enjoy, Learn, Discuss
Sunday 21 October