Monique Lapins talks us through her love of the Trout Quintet
BY EMMA SULLIVAN Read about Australian violinist Monique Lapins’ career to date, and you may be left feeling a little awe-struck. Monique has studied […]
October 2018
LIVE REVIEW // Alison sees The Owl and the Pussycat
BY ALISON PARIS The Owl and the Pussycat Lisa Cheney (composer) and Kathryn Marquet (librettist) Brisbane Festival Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, 27 September 2018 […]
A chat with Australian composer Mark Holdsworth
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Writing music can often seem like a mystifying and intellectual process. But for some, the experience can be “uniquely […]
Flora Cawte has been to ALL the Dots+Loops shows
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A loyal CutCommon reader, you might know that we’ve covered Dots+Loops a fair bit in the past. After all, the Queensland […]
James Beck is an actual powerhouse of music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Some might shy away from the challenge of taking on multiple roles in a production. After all, who could possibly build […]
Did you know The Handmaid’s Tale is an opera?
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON I’ll let you in on a not-so-little secret: I’m a fan of The Handmaid’s Tale. After devouring the powerful, feminist, and […]
LIVE REVIEW // A Millennial Opera @ Sydney Fringe
BY CHRISTINA HENSON A Millennial Opera Sydney Fringe Festival The Newsagency, 6 September I am devoted to operatic dogma, having spent my youth […]
LIVE REVIEW // Mark attends Spectral Tech
BY MARK BOSCH Spectral Tech Ensemble Offspring premiering works by Alex Pozniak, Holly Harrison, and Tristan Coelho Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 29 September […]
LISTEN // Episode #2 of Scored podcast is live!
Scored is Melbourne musician Kiya van der Linden-Kian’s fresh new podcast, which confronts the “cavernous fear” experienced by those leaving the academic world to build a […]
LIVE REVIEW // Kiya listens to student compositions at the con
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Spring Imaginings Works by composition students at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Melba Hall, 11 September If you’re […]