New Australian music from collaboration partners Romano Crivici and Mark Atkins
BY CUTCOMMON For the past three decades, Elektra String Quartet has placed Australian music front and centre. This year, the group releases new album Ebb […]
August 2022
Eric Whitacre’s touching choral work is “not sparkling, not epic, just real”
BY JEFFREY PALMER, UNITED STATES CORRESPONDENT Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is one of today’s most popular and intriguing musicians. His acclaimed choral […]
This creative bootcamp is “totally driven by the participants and what they want to create”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How long do you think it’d take you to write, rehearse, perform, and professionally record a new piece of music? As you […]
The Phonetic Orchestra wants to redefine how you listen to music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER While the pandemic has been a turbulent and uncertain time for our performing arts community, one clear benefit has emerged: […]
Daniel Patrick Cohen records 67 musicians for an album of “throwaway tracks”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE As far as albums go, We Deliver was not the simplest to produce. Composer Daniel Patrick Cohen sketched out hundreds of musical […]
Pianist An-Ting shares her story in a new album filled with original music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE We can all relate to feelings of isolation during the pandemic. We have lived through lockdowns, concert cancellations, and anxiety about how […]
Paul Ballam-Cross has arranged a bunch of classical guitar studies for electric bass
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Studies aren’t just for practising your technique, or so Paul Ballam-Cross’ new EP shows us. Enjoyable for the sake of listening, and […]
Beyond Binary is about “the lives and art of queer people being given visibility”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE This month, Dreambox Collective is hoping to start a conversation that will boost Australia’s understanding of the needs of LGBTQIA+ communities. Beyond […]
Lamorna Nightingale hopes you’ll “walk away with energy to make positive change” after this climate-themed event
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How has your relationship to the environment changed over the course of your life? It’s a question the curators of BackStage Music […]
Is conducting a science?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Is conducting a science? If you tuned into the ABC News Breakfast segment featuring Melbourne conductor Ingrid Martin, you’d be inclined to […]