How Musica Viva is supporting Australia’s arts industry from the inside
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE As an industry, we’ve grown familiar with a situation no musician or concertgoer ever wants to face: the cancellation. In the past […]
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How Paul Stanhope’s Requiem evolved into a celebration of life
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A requiem is a mass for the dead. But through the music of composer Paul Stanhope, the medium may be better described […]
Survey finds people are considering leaving the Victorian music industry
CONTENT COURTESY VICTORIAN MUSIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE A new study looked at how the pandemic has impacted the Victorian music sector. It found that 58 per […]
EVENTS // What’s happening at SIMA this year?
CONTENT COURTESY SIMA Explore the Sydney Improvised Music Association’s (SIMA) Jazz NOW Summer Season program and uncover the secrets of Sydney’s local music scene. Artistic Director Zoe Hauptmann says […]
Could your favourite film score have been composed by your local councillor?
BY LIAM HEITMANN-RYCE Artists can undergo an entire evolutionary cycle of job roles throughout the course of their film career, in front of and behind […]
Coming to terms with “loss in the face of an indifferent world”
BY RICHARD LAURENCE We would like to welcome Richard in his first blog with CutCommon. At its simplest, Gifts From Crows is my neoclassical music […]
A new study is confronting the “sexualisation of Australia’s classical musicians”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Does the classical music industry do its best to promote gender equality? It’s certainly a topic that weighs heavily on the minds […]
Daniel Todd: Mental health sounds like…
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Sydney musician and charity worker Jessie Wang is a mental health advocate and studies psychology at […]
The Cooperative is combining opera with social justice
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) It’s the start of 2021. As a member of our music community, what’s the first thing […]
How one Arts Administration course kickstarted Hannah Verkerk’s career
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hannah Verkerk’s arts career shows us how rapidly goals can be achieved. Since her 2015 role as operations and music coordinator with […]