What do you need to know about vocal music?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What do you need to know about vocal music? The answer to this question depends on your approach. Are you a composer […]
June 2022
Music is about “understanding who I am and what I would like to put out into the universe”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER Sanctuary, which comes to Elisabeth Murdoch Hall this NAIDOC Week, is well and truly jostling our expectations of what a […]
When I play music with AYO, I feel “an intense optimism for the future”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Whether you’re a composer, performer, arts administrator, or even music journalist, it’s likely you’ve had an enriching experience with the Australian Youth […]
In conversation with New Music Biennial curator Elizabeth Sills
BY JOSEPH ASQUITH, LEAD WRITER (UK) The New Music Biennial is an initiative by the PRS foundation. It aims to provide a platform for music […]
Where you can find a place of musical sanctuary this winter
BY LILY BRYANT A warm bath. An evening walk. A home-cooked meal. Calmness and comfort and safety. The word “sanctuary” conjures up any number of […]
Felix Riebl: “Spinifex Gum is the most special project I’ve ever worked on”
BY LILY BRYANT When you first press “play” on Spinifex Gum’s title track, you’re not sure what you’re hearing. It sounds like a crash cymbal, […]
EVENTS // Get your tix for Halcyon’s First Stones vocal intensive
CONTENT COURTESY HALCYON First Stones 2022 is an intensive opportunity to discover more about the voice and its capabilities, something Halcyon has been living out […]
VIDEO PREMIERE // Watch Michael Bakrnčev’s trio for flute, harp and violin
BY CUTCOMMON In 2017, Michael Bakrnčev wrote a piece of music as a gift for his wife Emily, which was performed on their wedding day. […]
An anonymous legend gave $20 million to Queensland Youth Orchestras
CONTENT COURTESY QUEENSLAND YOUTH ORCHESTRA Funding for a business case and master plan to restore Brisbane’s heritage-listed Old Museum — home of Queensland Youth Orchestras […]
How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]