Golden Sounds

Darius Milhaud

Julie Haskell

Julie Haskell has performed extensively in recitals, radio broadcasts, as a concerto soloist, orchestral pianist and chamber musician in Europe and Australia.

Arcangelo Corelli

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. His sonatas and concerti grossi helped establish the violin’s pre-eminence and fixed models of the sonata and concerto that spread across Europe.

François Couperin

François Couperin (1668–1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist, known as Couperin le Grand. Organist to Louis XIV and to Saint-Gervais in Paris, he remains the supreme French master of the harpsichord.

Maurice Ravel

Many consider Maurice Ravel a major composer for the piano as well as a genius of orchestration. It remains a surprise how few works make up his total output for the instrument: all his piano compositions can be performed in under two and a half hours.

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a French composer whose harmony, colour and flexible sense of key reshaped European music at the turn of the twentieth century. Piano, orchestral and chamber works from his maturity remain central to the repertoire.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. His ballets, concertos and orchestral works remain among the most widely performed music in the classical repertoire.

Enrique Granados

Enrique Granados was born in Lérida in 1867. He studied the piano and composition in Barcelona and then in Paris, returning to Barcelona in 1889, and won distinction as a pianist and popularity in Spain with his zarzuelas and piano music.

George Gershwin

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose music spanned popular song, Broadway and the classical concert hall, leaving melodies that remain widely known.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote orchestral music steeped in Russian folk colour and fairy-tale narrative, with a gift for bright, precise orchestration. Short showpieces such as The Flight of the Bumble Bee and Song of India travel easily into arrangements for almost any instrument.

Jerome Kern

Jerome Kern's songs sit at the heart of the American musical and the jazz standard book: long-lined melodies that carry character and story as easily as they invite improvisation, from Show Boat ballads to Hollywood fox-trots.

Manuel de Falla

Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist, one of Spain’s most important musicians of the first half of the twentieth century. A modest output carries a strong Andalusian stamp and, later, a leaner neoclassical voice.

Lili Boulanger

Lili Boulanger studied composition with her elder sister, nadia, who was a composer and conductor, and at the Paris Conservatoire. Lili was the first woman to receive the Grand Prix de Rome for music.

Ian King

Ian King is a tuba virtuoso who gave the first Australian performance of Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto in 1955 and the first tuba recital in Australia. His playing is prized for astonishing control, dexterity and musical sensitivity.