Composer Secrets: Hanli Sean Botha
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you heard the music of Hanli Sean Botha? If you have, your musical ventures into new Australian composition have served […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
Xani Kolac is the essence of ‘contemporary classical’
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A silent audience in a sold-out concert hall. The occasional gum wrapper unravelling; a few coughs disrupting the mood. No clapping – […]
EXPOSED! Life in the orchestra with Yoram Levy, trumpet
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you ever wondered what life is really like in the orchestra? Welcome to EXPOSED! Throughout 2017, we’re teaming up with musicians and […]
Hannah Lane shows us a “window into the past”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hannah Lane describes herself as a member of the “new generation of Australian HIPsters”. The harpist isn’t talking about your typical […]
Ephemera Trio sets NASA recordings to music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Stars. Sun. Void. Ephemera Trio is taking us on a voyage into the universe, morphing the elements of space into new […]
What does climate change sound like?
BY CAROL SAFFER Percussionist Thea Rossen and composer Jared Yapp took the bare skeleton of a project to a residency program at the Banff […]
Angela Hewitt talks Bach
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Quite simply, Angela Hewitt is a Bach expert. The Canadian pianist has dedicated two decades of her life to recording the […]
Matt Sheers: “Music is there to be explored”
BY CHLOE SANGER Melbourne violinist, composer and producer Matt Sheers launches his solo EP ORCHA this weekend at the Gasometer Hotel in Collingwood. Matt’s […]
Behind the Conversation with Chris Williams
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE/MAKING WAVES Have you checked out the third Making Conversation podcast? This week features composer Chris Williams as he interviews Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh about […]
Natasha Wilson: “Music, movement, with a lot of passion”
BY KATIE MILLER-CRISPE Where can you go to hear thrilling Spanish and Catalan Baroque music as acrobats fly overhead? New Zealand soprano Natasha Wilson, […]