Annabelle Drumm grew up in a theatre family attending opera and concert rehearsals in the womb with a conductor/musician father and a violinist mother. In her own career, she has worked out front and behind the scenes of Arts, Media and Entertainment. This included being a professional Performing Artist for 9 years, Artistic Director of a Dance Company for 6 years and Founder of a Performing Artists Booking Agency 15 years representing Artists from Australia and New Zealand to an international audience.
She spent 10 years as a Creative Business Coach and was selected as an inaugural member of the Arts and Culture Advisory panel to the Inner West Council.
Annabelle served as a Breakfast Radio Host for 2MBS Fine Music 102.5FM for 7 years, selected as Anchor Host for the station’s “Live from the Joan” simulcast and has provided Musicology talks at The Concourse and Sydney Opera House.
She is passionate about supporting the Performing Arts in Australia offering her expertise with the goal of raising standards and growing live audience numbers.
In Opera Australia’s season for 2024 they digress away from the usual Romantic period regulars to visit ancient times. In September will be a rendition of the poem of Gilgamesh performed at Carriageworks and presently, the company is delving into …
Two musicians, harpist Emily Granger and classical guitarist Andrew Blanch, have been working and living in Australia for years but only really got to know each other in 2019 when they were both Banff Musicians in Residence in Alberta, …
With Sydney Festival, you can be sure the programming does not fade away with less spectacular “left overs” for the final days. Charging boldly forward, right to the very end, the Festival showcased the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra making their contribution …
A large mixed gathering filled the St James King St Church on Saturday 2nd December, central Sydney for a unique concert. For the first time, the Momentum Ensemble, an offshoot of the Australian Youth Orchestra, and the wonderful St James …
It’s a knock out!
Both circle and stalls were full for the opening night of Pinchgut Opera’s much awaited production of Handel’s Rinaldo in Sydney’s City Recital Hall. Known to be his most celebrated opera, the work features glorious music …
Monday night was an interesting addition to the series “International Pianists in Recital”. Sydney Symphony has partnered with Theme & Variations Piano Services to bring great pianists to Sydney …
5 stars
It was an unusually eventful visit to the Sydney Opera House last night, 9 October. The Concert Hall stage featured Academy of St Martin in the Fields, one of the world’s top chamber orchestras visiting from the UK. …
Saturday 9 September 2023 Sydney’s City Recital Hall held a full house of keen classical music lovers, ready to experience some rarely heard Baroque works presented by Pinchgut Opera. Pleasures of Versailles focussed on the works of composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier.…
Ask most musicians where they would go to hear the world’s best jazz and chances are they will answer “New York”. In the heart of NY, NY sits a not-for-profit organisation lead by world famous trumpet player Wynton Marsalis called …
The audience were buzzing last night as they exited the Concert Hall of Sydney Opera House, highly satisfied with lots of wonderful things to say. It was an almost full house with high school students joining the regular crowd and …