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2018
WTF?! Why do we give viola such a bad wrap?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to our series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring […]
Live review // Sylvie goes to the Bernstein Songbook
BY SYLVIE WOODS The Bernstein Songbook Sydney Symphony Orchestra Sydney Opera House, 11 May Downtown Abbey’s Charles Blake (Julian Ovenden) performed some of Bernstein’s […]
EVENTS // Affinity Quartet – In the Studio
CONTENT COURTESY AFFINITY Affine Territories explores music’s ability to embrace differences and find connections between different times and places; an idea that is important […]
Behind the Curtain | Sam Roberts-Smith, baritone
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE So you’ve been to see the opera. Maybe you were a concertgoer, taken aback by the majestic staging and tales of […]
Why you should start taking sax seriously
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Much to the bother of some purist performers, saxophone and classical music are set to collide this week in a concert […]
Nima Fakhrara on scoring PS4 game Detroit: Become Human
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES COORDINATOR When composers work together on a film, TV series, or video game, they’re often required to collaborate to […]
The piece I was born to compose
BY SEAN ROSS Winner of the Director’s Choice Award for opera in the 2014 Boston International Contempo Festival, Tchaikovsky, Angel of Music is not […]
(Literally) Live Reviews // Celine sees Harry Potter
Welcome to our CutCommon’s (Literally) Live Reviews – our new video review series that aims to reshape the way we think about arts criticism in […]
EVENTS // New Zealand Guitar Quartet meets Guitar Brisbane
CONTENT COURTESY GUITAR BRISBANE The New Zealand Guitar Quartet is coming to Brisbane as part of a four-country June tour. The tour will feature […]