Articles

How should we understand Clara Schumann, 200 years on?

August 28, 2019

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

August 26, 2019

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”

August 26, 2019

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

August 25, 2019

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

August 23, 2019

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”

August 23, 2019

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

August 22, 2019

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

August 22, 2019

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? […]

It’s time to end Yellowface in the performing arts

August 19, 2019

BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker may be one of the world’s best-loved ballets. But in 2019, derogatory racial stereotyping, and use […]