Becoming Pro: Tips from the Top
Sam Gillies talks with some of Australia’s top musicians about what it takes to go from being a student to a professional.Recently, I was stuck […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
Key to Jazz: Tom Vincent
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If there’s one style that’s stayed timelessly cool since it first hit the clubs, it’s gotta be jazz. Australian pianist and composer […]
Network of Lines: Tilman Robinson Talks Debut
BY SAM GILLIES Melbourne-based composer, trombonist and sound artist Tilman Robinson doesn’t restrict himself to one style. Having performed (and premiered) a diverse range […]
A master pianist: Freddy Kempf
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Freddy Kempf isn’t your everyday pianist. While most of us spent our childhood learning how to read and write, Freddy was off […]
Tait of All Trades
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Skilled craftsmen have long been praised for their abilities to create high quality objects with their bare hands. Although commercial mass production […]
25 Words Or Less
BY ANDREW MESSENGER, GABRIELLE RUTTICO, AND SAM GILLIESEver wondered what it’d be like to grab a program at a gig and actually get through it, […]
Discover: Copland’s America
BY ANDREW MESSENGER On 26 May 1953, Aaron Copland sat before Senator Joseph McCarthy‘s notorious Senate Permanent Sub- Committee on Investigations. He was given […]
Subverting Expectations: Composer Andrew Howes
By Sam Gillies Andrew Howes is a Sydney-born composer whose new work Ichirós was commissioned by Richard Gill and Silo Collective for performance by the […]