Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
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 […]
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 […]
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? […]
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 […]
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We all know that kids in regional Australia do not have access to the same musical […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When Kiri Zakinthinos was a student at the University of New South Wales, it wasn’t the Western classical music she was most […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How can an artist represent a future generation? Award-winning flautist Jemima Drews was recently tasked with the responsibility, being welcomed into the […]
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF In September, the very first ZoneOut International Music Festival comes to Carriageworks in Sydney. It combines music and mindfulness in a series […]
BY JEFFREY PALMER Violinist Ye Jin Min and pianist Alexander Yau are two very talented young Australian musicians – and they’re making their way as […]
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