Could this be why we still love Mozart so much?
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Party animal. Revolutionist. Bohemian. Uber-famous artist with the lifestyle to match. This is how conductor Benjamin Northey would describe 20-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus […]
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Zeitgeist Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In the past week, we’ve been showcasing some very special emerging talent — each group of which took part in the Mimir […]
How should we understand Clara Schumann, 200 years on?
BY MARK BOSCH, LEAD CRITIC On September 13 this year, Clara Schumann is turning 200. A day later (which, conveniently, is a Saturday), a bunch […]
A private viewing into the career of Holly Harrison
BY CHANTAL NGUYEN We would like to welcome Chantal Nguyen in her first story as a CutCommon contributor! I’m old school friends with Holly Harrison, […]
Margaret Leng Tan: “Concerts are much too serious affairs”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I was flabbergasted — yes, flabbergasted — when Margaret Leng Tan told me she’s never headlined a show before. After all, The […]
Invictus Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Did you catch our interview with Aidan Filshie of the Kalon Quartet? Aidan talked us through the experience of being selected to […]
Life after uni: Tim Munro, flute
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]
James Rushford is using glossing to “illuminate something new about historical music”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Feeling “ecstatic” would be a pretty reasonable response to the idea of a three-day arts festival celebrating contemporary performance, right? The Supersense […]
Kalon Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Aidan Filshie, “recording sucks”. Capturing your performance to perfection, on video, in a single take, is going to be tough […]
All the world’s a stage | Rain Liu, violin
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Should you stay in Australia to build your music career, or travel overseas in search of bigger things? What even are those bigger things? […]