Australian Discovery Orchestra: Paving the way for the future
BY SAMUEL COTTELL In the past few years, there has been much discussion about a crisis in classical music, particularly for orchestras. This crisis […]
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It Began with the Bruckner: Musician Project
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Daniel Dean, Max McBride, and Sam Torrens wanted to play Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony so badly that they started a 75-piece orchestra […]
Cameron Carpenter and the International Touring Organ
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Cameron Carpenter, the organ is an “instrument of stereotype, eccentricity, and obscurity”. The American composer and musician leaves all […]
Giving Voice – Eternal Mystery
BY LUCY RASH Soprano Justine Anderson is a 2015 Fellow at the Australian National Academy of Music. Her second project for the year ‘Giving […]
The All-Leunig Song Almanac
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Michael Leunig. You know, the cartoon artist and comically philosophical poet? Yeah, that Leunig. His work is at the basis of […]
Cyrus Meurant on hearing his works live for the first time
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Ever wondered what goes through the minds of composers when they hear their own work premiered? We do. So we asked […]
Solomon John Frank: From Star Wars to Rinehart
BY ANGUS MCPHERSON Solomon John Frank is making a name for himself as one of Sydney’s promising young composers. As the winner of the […]
Top 5 Things You Never Knew About Sax
Emerging and award-winning chamber group Petrichor Sax brings you the Top 5 things you never knew about the saxophone ahead of a performance at […]
Con Fuoco: Thea Rossen
Welcome to Con Fuoco – CutCommon’s interview series with emerging musicians across Australia. Melbourne percussionist Thea Rossen was awarded the 2014 prize for Most […]
Arcko: Making New Music Familiar
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “You can’t come to a new music concert with your ‘Mozart ears’ on,” according to Timothy Phillips. The Melbourne muso and […]