Melbourne Lawyers’ Orchestra celebrates young composers
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Q: What do you call a bunch of lawyers with an incredible talent for blowing their own trumpets? A: The brass […]
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Breaking barriers: Matthew Wood with the DSO
BY LEAH BLANKENDAAL Ever wondered what our musical neighbours in the Northern Territory are up to? We take some time to chat with Matthew […]
Jane Stanley talks composition and the Hildegard Project
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Subscribe to CutCommon by October 14, and you could win a free double pass to see this concert in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, […]
Catherine Likhuta: Scraps from a Madman’s Diary
BY CATHERINE LIKHUTA AND STEPHANIE ESLAKE One evening in 2006, Catherine Likhuta read Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman. Born […]
Con Fuoco: Elise Jeffrey
BY LEAH BLANKENDAAL Welcome to Con Fuoco, CutCommon’s interview series with emerging musicians in Australia. Born in Perth, Elise Jeffrey began piano lessons […]
Hot Off the Press: Sydney composers join forces
BY ANGUS DAVISON In February this year, I bid a fond farewell to Hobart and boarded a plane to Sydney. I was off […]
Alice Chance and AJ America talk wild women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What composition throughout history do you feel has represented women wildly, absurdly, accurately, or powerfully? We pose the question to two […]
Con Fuoco: Angus McPherson
Welcome to Con Fuoco, CutCommon’s interview series with young musicians across Australia. You may have seen Angus McPherson’s byline around here at CutCommon. But […]
Eileen Joyce: Five fun facts with Julia Hastings
After a sell-out premiere season in 2015, Melbourne classical pianist Julia Hastings returns with her original one-woman show Fame, Fortune & Lies: The Life and Music […]
Syzygy presents new music from Cheney, Aronowicz, Lyon, and Sdraulig
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Syzygy Ensemble will this week present a series of world premieres from some of the brightest living composers on the Australian […]