If Bray’s piece only hinted at vastness, expansiveness came in spades in Sibelius’ evergreen Violin Concerto in D minor. A super-icy, hushed shimmer from the in-form Sinfonietta’s strings produced a ...

Dmytro Udovychenko, a 25-year-old Ukrainian violinist, won top place at the world-leading competition that gifts its winner a 1708 Stradivarius.

He also demonstrated a feature called the “echo pipes,’ at the rear of the sanctuary. The program opened with Sibelius’ Finlandia, a classical pop favourite, followed by Over the Rainbow, then the ...

He is co-director of the specialist publishing company Prepared Sounds an associate artist of the Australian Music Centre, an ...

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