Peter Tregear

Nov 1, 2024 | australianbookreview.com.au | Peter Tregear |Arts Highlights

This concert was the fourth, and perhaps most immediately relevant, in a series of concerts conceived over the past six years by artist-in-residence Christopher Latham for the Australian War Memorial. As with the Diggers’ Requiem (2018), Vietnam Requiem (2021), and the Prisoners of War Requiem (2022), Latham has created a narrative to accompany a series of musical works intended to make the history it explored ‘more conscious, identified and understood’.

Oct 27, 2024 | classicmelbourne.com.au | Peter Tregear

1 Established in 2011, The Australian World Orchestra (AWO) has since become a staple of the national touring calendar. Featuring Australian musicians from leading national and international orchestras and ensembles, it also provides a welcome annual opportunity for many of the leading figures of Australia’s musical diaspora to catch up with each other. Next year sees the orchestra present two Mahler symphonies under the baton of their founder and artistic director, Alexander Briger.

Oct 13, 2024 | classicmelbourne.com.au | Peter Tregear

0 This strong presentation of Rossini’s Mass, the second performance of the work in Melbourne in under a month, was the result of a self-evidently fruitful collaboration between two of Melbourne’s most productive and innovative vocal ensembles. Michael Fulcher, the founder of one of them (Polyphonic Voices), directed the performance in the Chapel of Trinity College.

Sep 16, 2024 | architectureau.com | Peter Tregear

The current Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Nicholas Reece, has said that if re-elected he would sell the City of Melbourne’s majority stake in the Regent Theatre and redirect the funds to support, among other things, a new arts festival. The future of this venue matters. More than just an impressive piece of Melbourne’s heritage architecture – it also supports aspects of the city’s intangible cultural heritage. A theatre for MelbourneThe Regent was built in the late 1920s as an opulent movie cinema.

Sep 12, 2024 | dailybulletin.com.au | Peter Tregear

The current Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Nicholas Reece, has said that if re-elected he would sell the City of Melbourne’s majority stake in the Regent Theatre and redirect the funds to support, among other things, a new arts festival. The future of this venue matters. More than just an impressive piece of Melbourne’s heritage architecture – it also supports aspects of the city’s intangible cultural heritage. A theatre for MelbourneThe Regent was built in the late 1920s as an opulent movie cinema.