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Are you a hipster? Nicholas Vines’ preludes are literally about you

March 15, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you ever looked into your rattan-framed mirror and asked: Am I a hipster? I wonder this sometimes. I have glasses that […]

Why you should nominate an Australian artist for the Art Music Awards

March 14, 2022

BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) It’s that time of year again: the APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards are open for you to nominate an […]

“Our sexuality is no inhibition to our music making”

March 7, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When your first performance of a program is a sell-out, and you receive a donation of funds to record an album based […]

Harpist Emily Granger has filled her solo album with new Australian music

February 28, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Harpist Emily Granger knew exactly what she wanted on her debut solo album — and it’s probably not what you’d expect. The […]

My arts career during COVID: Katie Yap, Wattleseed Ensemble

February 27, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The entire nature of our industry has shifted. Living and working through the pandemic, Australia’s musicians have been forced to rethink their […]

The new Hush album is “pure comfort” for mothers and carers

February 22, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Kate Miller-Heidke describes The Healing Tree as “pure comfort”. The idea for this single swirled in her mind when, before the pandemic, […]

Caitlin Yeo on scoring “bold, inventive, brave” ABC series Wakefield

February 21, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Australian composer Caitlin Yeo has been nominated for two 2021 APRA AGSC Screen Music Awards. In Wakefield (Best Music for a Television […]

This new orchestra will serve the 2.5 million people of Greater Western Sydney

February 21, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE February 21 was a special day for Greater Western Sydney. The region, home to one in every 11 Australians, has opened its […]

How this collective will “give oxygen” to diverse creative voices

February 18, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’d like to preface this interview with a quote from its subject, opera singer and educator Daniel Szesiong Todd 鄭時雄: There is […]