Guitar Virtuoso: Minh Le Hoang
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The guitar is a versatile instrument. It goes with the flow. For hundreds of years, it’s followed the hottest trends and […]
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Natalie Williams: The Hildegard Project
BY DELIA BARTLE Natalie Williams is an award-winning composer whose works have been performed in Europe, Australia and the United States. She is the […]
30 Years and Counting: Howard Shelley & TSO
BY ANGUS DAVISON Acclaimed British pianist and conductor Howard Shelley returns to Australia in 2015 for the 30th consecutive year. Continuing his long association […]
Revealed: Tassie’s Top Emerging Composers
BY ANGUS DAVISON, TASMANIAN COMPOSER Deep within the labyrinth of the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, something’s stirring. Whispers hang tense in the air. Hunched, […]
James Macaulay on “Middle Class, White” Jazz
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Melbourne jazz trombonist James Macaulay enters the spotlight with his quartet at the Kew Court House this month. Joined by award-winning […]
Bernard Walz : Crackling, Sparkling, and Popping with Gershwin
BY SAMUEL COTTELL From the opening clarinet glissando to the stunning piano cadenza, Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ is a work that has permeated popular culture […]
Composing a Film: Trailer Music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “A lot of people watch the film and they don’t realise how powerful music can be – how it can actually […]
Beatboxed: Tom Thum vs Queensland Symphony Orchestra
BY UMA MUTHIA It takes considerable talent to drop a beat without spraying spit all over the place. Or sounding like you’re choking. But […]
Perspectives on Improvisation: Peter Evans
BY SAMUEL COTTELL Sitting in a café amidst a busy street in the leafy suburb of Crows Nest, in Sydney’s Northern Suburbs, I caught […]
William Gardiner: Composition, Collaboration, and Personal Voice
BY SAMUEL COTTELL William Gardiner crafts his own worlds of sound. Through influences from Bach to electronic music, the composer’s works inhabit many different […]