“I don’t know anything about music, In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley
Here is a photo I took last night at the Vivid Festival in Sydney. This new arts festival, held in winter has incredible potential and I hope to see how it progresses next year. Doesn’t the Sydney Opera House look spectacular? It’s been a tough week having prepared seven new works over the last seven days as well as rehearsing for the upcoming recitals on flute. Details for these recitals will be announced in my next post and I am extremely excited. Of course, with this many works to conduct and perform in July, it will mean almost 60kg of luggage! (and that I am not so excited about :P). Today, I’ve been preparing Petrassi’s Concerto for Orchestra No.2 (Secondo Concerto). I’m very lucky to have received a gift of some real Italian coffee on my last trip as I think only that strong coffee got me through studying the whole Petrassi in a Day :P The next work on the list to prepare will be Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1, op.15, C major which will be tomorrow’s target. I look forward to sharing a lot of news next post! Ciao a tutti!
