Music education matters, says Sean Burke, tuba
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 […]
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Life after uni: Eliza Scott, violin
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]
Courtenay Cleary is getting mysterious at Dots+Loops
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE It’s that time again, Brisbane, when you get to experience Dots+Loops and the rest of the country gets jealous. In case you […]
Mark Bain’s new resource will help you confront your performance anxiety
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF Performance anxiety is a phrase many musicians are pretty familiar with. Whether we experience it ourselves or know someone who does, it […]
Rose de La Montaña has launched her own guitar residency in Melbourne
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Rose de La Montaña is a young guitarist to look out for. In fact, you might’ve read about her in our latest […]
Life after uni: Tetsuya Lawson, trumpet
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]
Celebrating the winter solstice with music, words, and mead
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year. Fittingly placed for those who’d like to avoid the season’s chill entirely, […]
The ASO doesn’t want you to applaud its next concert
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA On June 21, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will perform a matinee and evening concert called Silence with your ASO, in which it […]
Lotte Betts-Dean will sing of “mortality and sin” at Dark Mofo
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dark Mofo has grown notorious for its explorations into sex and death, and this week’s concert promises nothing less morbid. Australian mezzo […]
The Melbourne Ensemble brings chamber music to an urban winery
BY EMMA SULLIVAN Have you ever watched a symphony orchestra and wanted to get to know the different personalities on stage? Melbourne Ensemble, formed in […]