EVENTS // Tempo Rubato: QICMC Prize Celebration Recital
CONTENT COURTESY TEMPO RUBATO Melbourne trio (oboe, bassoon, and piano) Ensemble Françaix was crowned first prize winner of the 2019 Queensland International Chamber Music Competition […]
2019
James Rushford is using glossing to “illuminate something new about historical music”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Feeling “ecstatic” would be a pretty reasonable response to the idea of a three-day arts festival celebrating contemporary performance, right? The Supersense […]
Kalon Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Aidan Filshie, “recording sucks”. Capturing your performance to perfection, on video, in a single take, is going to be tough […]
Our official AYO International Tour gallery has dropped
CURATED BY ELOISE WRIGHT (AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA) FOR CUTCOMMON This year, the Australian Youth Orchestra toured The Netherlands, France, Germany, and China, before returning for […]
All the world’s a stage | Rain Liu, violin
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Should you stay in Australia to build your music career, or travel overseas in search of bigger things? What even are those bigger things? […]
How to get the most out of a music conference
BY WENDY ZHANG This July, I had the opportunity to attend the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference for the first time. I registered for this mainly […]
ANNOUNCED! These are the winners of the 2019 Art Music Awards
CONTENT COURTESY 2019 ART MUSIC AWARDS Winners have been announced across 11 national categories and eight state categories of the 2019 Art Music Awards at […]
It’s time to end Yellowface in the performing arts
BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker may be one of the world’s best-loved ballets. But in 2019, derogatory racial stereotyping, and use […]
Moorambilla Voices brings music to children of “this magnificent country”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We all know that kids in regional Australia do not have access to the same musical […]
How playing horn (with braces) taught me to master my own talent
BY TRACY FRIEDLANDER Tracy Friedlander is the founder of Crushing Classical. We’d like to welcome her to CutCommon as she shares her industry advice column […]