SALLY WHITWELL - AUSTRALIA
BORN 5 MARCH
Award winning musician Sally Whitwell maintains a busy freelance career as pianist, performer, conductor, composer and educator from her base in Sydney, Australia.
Recent solo concert appearances for Sally have included the world premiere of the Philip Glass Complete Piano Etudes for Perth International Arts Festival and Ten Tiny Dancers, an all-singing-all-playing-all-dancing cabaret piano recital for the Famous Spiegeltent season at Arts Centre Melbourne. In 2014 Sally travelled to Los Angeles and New York City to perform again with Philip Glass, his complete piano Etudes, in addition to performances for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney Australia as part of their recent exhibition of portraits by American artist Chuck Close.
As a solo recording artist, Sally has four albums to her name. Her debut album Mad Rush: solo piano music of Philip Glass won her the 2011 ARIA for Best Classical Album. Her sophomore album The Good, the Bad and the Awkward is a truly unique compilation of film music where she played not only piano but toy piano, harpsichord, recorder and melodica. All Imperfect Things; solo piano music of Michael Nyman won the 2013 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album as well as Best Engineer for ABC Classics very own tonmeister Virginia Read, the first time that a woman has ever won this award. Her most recent release I was flying is a collection of her own compositions in the art song, choral and chamber music genres, which enjoyed five weeks in the top ten of the ARIA Core Classical Charts, was nominated for the 2015 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album.
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Winter Love by Sally Whitwell
MATHILDE VON ROTHSCHILD - GERMANY
BORN 5 MARCH
Hannah Mathilde von Rothschild spent her childhood in Vienna and Frankfurt and after her marriage she settled in the latter place, first in a house on the Zeil, having the Grüneburg and then later a house in the small town of Königstein as a summer home. Here she frequently entertained her friend the Empress Friedrich.
A pupil of Chopin, Mathilde developed her love of music as a performer and composer. She produced piano pieces, waltzes and a large number of songs, mainly in French and German, although one English song, My lady sleeps, is known to survive. Her most famous song, Si vous n'avez rien à me dire, the first of five she wrote for Adelina Patti, was recorded in 1905 as La Romance de la Baronne Willy.
Mathilde followed the example of her husband's orthodoxy, and her name was associated with many charitable endeavours in Frankfurt. On her death six institutions were identified as owing their very foundation to her benevolence, and she was a supporter to a great many others. In the 1860s alone she set up three foundations bearing the Rothschild name: an association for artists, in memory of her father; a charity for the relief of poverty; and the Georgine Sara foundation for sick Jews, named after her eldest daughter.
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Les Papillons by Mathilde von Rotschild
Les Papillons by Mathilde von Rotschild
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