Music is about “understanding who I am and what I would like to put out into the universe”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER Sanctuary, which comes to Elisabeth Murdoch Hall this NAIDOC Week, is well and truly jostling our expectations of what a […]
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When I play music with AYO, I feel “an intense optimism for the future”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Whether you’re a composer, performer, arts administrator, or even music journalist, it’s likely you’ve had an enriching experience with the Australian Youth […]
Where you can find a place of musical sanctuary this winter
BY LILY BRYANT A warm bath. An evening walk. A home-cooked meal. Calmness and comfort and safety. The word “sanctuary” conjures up any number of […]
Felix Riebl: “Spinifex Gum is the most special project I’ve ever worked on”
BY LILY BRYANT When you first press “play” on Spinifex Gum’s title track, you’re not sure what you’re hearing. It sounds like a crash cymbal, […]
How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]
Blue Mountains composer Emma Greenhill is rediscovering her music through movement
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Blue Mountains composer Emma Greenhill was so moved by the bushfires of 2019-20, she wrote a piece of music about it. Through Regrowth, Emma […]
Drift into this beautiful sanctuary of new Australian music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “When you do an improvisation with someone, you immediately know whether you’re going to be friends,” Mindy Meng Wang says. “It just […]
Four decades on, Dulcie Holland’s “bloody good” piece for piano and strings will finally be heard
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dulcie Holland’s Concertino for Piano and Strings — “pure pleasure for players and listeners”, as the composer described it — was written […]
How ANAM helps me grow “not just as a musician but also as a human being”
BY CUTCOMMON Breaking into the Australian music industry isn’t easy — so you’re going to want a good start. The Australian National Academy of Music […]
Could “modular” compositions be the answer to concert cancellations and postponements?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Those of us who work in the music industry keep doing our best. But unfortunately, that best keeps getting disrupted by external […]