Articles

A chat with young conductor Eduardo Strausser

July 11, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Young artists of the Australian National Academy of Music will soon have the privilege of working with highly experienced, world-renowned conductor Eduardo […]

5 emerging composers talk about their new works

July 10, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE For an emerging composer, the opportunity to have your music heard by every person walking through Arts Centre Melbourne sounds pretty exciting. […]

Life after uni: Karen Jacobsen (but you know her as Siri)

July 10, 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 […]

The Idea of North will sing five centuries of music (in 90 minutes)

July 9, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Imagine you’re in a music history lecture where you receive your entire education through live comedy and song. That’s what Nick Begbie […]

Guitar Perspectives: 5 minutes with Meng Su

July 9, 2019

BY ROSE DE LA MONTAÑA Welcome to our new mini interview series, in which we chat with some of the world’s top classical guitarists — each […]

Jenna Pratt: Mental health sounds like…

July 9, 2019

BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Sydney-based musician and charity worker Jessie Wang is a mental health advocate and studies psychology at […]

The future of opera is diversity

July 5, 2019

BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Nick Galvin and Nathaneal Cooper (Sydney Morning Herald) have this week revived the topic of problematic narratives and representation […]

Andrew Anderson: Performing local works helps you “shape the musical voice of the country”

July 2, 2019

BY LEWIS INGHAM On June 28, Parma Recordings and Navona Records released an album from the Australia Piano Quartet, featuring the two piano quartets of […]