Composer Alex Turley premieres his City of Ghosts
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A city deserted. Fog, light, movement through the shadows. This is the concept behind young composer Alex Turley’s latest creation City of […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
Subterranean after-party breathes new life into concert experience
BY DYLAN HENDERSON A new audience of young concert-goers under 30 attended the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Elegant Tchaikovsky concert on April 29, with an after-party […]
Lisa Cheney and Peggy Polias are Making Conversation
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Lisa Cheney and Peggy Polias are smashing the stereotype of the “dead white male” composer in their latest venture Making Conversation. […]
Lior chats world premiere of his fresh Song Cycle
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Melbourne’s Lior Attar has taken out several ARIA awards for his hits as a singer-songwriter, though he’s never been bound by […]
Con Fuoco: Laurence Matheson
BY LEAH BLANKENDAAL Welcome to Con Fuoco – CutCommon’s interview series with emerging musicians across Australia. Melbourne pianist Laurence Matheson has a long […]
With Love and Fury: Katie Noonan and the Brodsky Quartet
BY SAMUEL COTTELL When Australian poet Judith Wright finished any written correspondence, she signed it off ‘with love and fury’ – an important message […]
Sampology: when bird songs meet the turntable
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Brisbane audio-visual artist Sam Poggioli (Sampology) grew up surrounded by modern sounds. His brother had turntables and their older cousins ran […]
10 classical composers influenced by jazz
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT “Jazz truly rules the world.” This was the opening line of the first French review of recorded jazz music, published in […]
Things are becoming new with Kupka’s Piano
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Classical music shouldn’t be restricted to compositions of the Classical period, centuries ago. At least, that’s what flautist Jodie Rottle reckons, and […]
Discover and play with Blackbird in the Garden
BY LUCY RASH Multidisciplinary work Blackbird in the Garden is the tantalising new collaboration between two of the most promising young minds in Australian […]