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 […]
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EVENTS // Orchestras announce Australian Conducting Academy
CONTENT COURTESY TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Australia’s symphony orchestras and Orchestra Victoria are excited to announce the launch of the expanded Australian Conducting Academy, led by […]
LIVE REVIEW // Joseph goes to see Ayanna Witter-Johnson
BY JOSEPH ASQUITH, LEAD WRITER (UK) Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Purcell SessionsSouthbank Centre (UK), 8 June It’s London in June. The bright Wednesday evening sun shines over Southbank, […]
EVENTS // Australian Youth Orchestra returns to the stage
CONTENT COURTESY AYO Australian Youth Orchestra will be bringing the rugged mountains of Germany to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane with three performances of Richard Strauss’ […]
Blue Mountains composer Emma Greenhill is rediscovering her music through movement
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Blue Mountains composer Emma Greenhill was so moved by the bushfires of 2019-20, she wrote a piece of music about it. Through Regrowth, Emma […]
Drift into this beautiful sanctuary of new Australian music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “When you do an improvisation with someone, you immediately know whether you’re going to be friends,” Mindy Meng Wang says. “It just […]
EVENTS // Experience MSO + Spinifex Gum this NAIDOC Week
CONTENT COURTESY MSO The award-winning sound and song collective Spinifex Gum returns to Melbourne in NAIDOC Week to perform with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The stunning program […]
Four decades on, Dulcie Holland’s “bloody good” piece for piano and strings will finally be heard
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dulcie Holland’s Concertino for Piano and Strings — “pure pleasure for players and listeners”, as the composer described it — was written […]
How ANAM helps me grow “not just as a musician but also as a human being”
BY CUTCOMMON Breaking into the Australian music industry isn’t easy — so you’re going to want a good start. The Australian National Academy of Music […]
8 things I discovered while working with my favourite composers
BY PAT JAFFE When I heard that Piano Project, the charity offshoot of Melbourne venue Tempo Rubato, was launching the inaugural Angus Gray Piano Performance […]