“Mistakes are not the end of the world,” says winner of the biggest piano award in Australia
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE It’s been close to two years since Oliver She took out his win at the last Australian National Piano Award in Shepparton. […]
2020
EVENTS // Four Winds Easter Festival brings you Live Music in Nature
CONTENT COURTESY FOUR WINDS EASTER FESTIVAL Four Winds Easter Festival is a music festival in Bermagui on the beautiful south coast of New South Wales. […]
Rohan Dasika will perform live music in nature at this beautiful, coastal festival
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR Since 1991, musicians and audiences from all corners of the country have trekked to Bermagui in New South Wales to […]
Howard Shore explains how he composes his fantasy worlds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN The Lost Prince is a film for anyone who has ever been a parent or a child. The French […]
Nicholas Bochner breaks down the music he’ll present at Ears Wide Open
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s Ears Wide Open series is a concert experience like no other, guiding audiences through illuminating deconstructions […]
EVENTS // The human voice, the original instrument, the instrument of change
CONTENT COURTESY CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL From Haydn’s glorious Creation to the Appalachian mystery of Sam Amidon, to contemporary Indigenous creators in all their diversity, […]
WAO is staging a creepy opera, in a park, at night…
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hansel and Gretel is that creepy fairytale about the children who venture deep into the forest, and are drawn to a disturbed […]
Composer Alex Baranowski pays homage to his family in this post-WWII film about the children
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN For Alex Baranowski, The Windermere Children wasn’t an ordinary scoring project. Though the BBC/Wall to Wall production may have presented […]
EVENTS // See the AYO in concert
CONTENT COURTESY AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA Celebrating the first 20 years of a new century, the finest young musicians from around Australia will combine their powerful […]
Sydney musicians are banding together to help native animals in need
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE For flautist Joshua Batty, one of the most distressing impacts of this summer’s bushfire season has been “the feeling of mutual helplessness”. […]