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 […]
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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 […]
Mary Lattimore will play ambient music on 47 strings
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What even is ambient music, anyway? Some would consider it music to sink into the background; a kind of atmospheric and calming […]
How to learn from your funding rejection (and reapply to succeed)
BY TIM HANNAH Ever had an amazing idea for a project and applied for funding, only to be knocked back? Hours, days, and sometimes weeks […]
Tenzin Choegyal: “Music is life, no matter where I am”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We’re lucky we live in a country that boasts itself as being one of the most […]
Rakhi Singh and Seb Gainsborough on collaboration and musical freedom
BY MYLES OAKEY (EUROPE CORRESPONDENT) Shadowing five onstage performers, a flickering analogue film gestures a bleeding heart, which rests atop a woman’s bare chest. Layered […]
Sam Hartley talks about his stage role with Opera Queensland
BY ALISON PARIS, LEAD WRITER (CHILDREN AND EARLY LEARNING) Opera Queensland’s production of Tosca is set in the politically tense 1970s Italy. Opera singer Tosca […]
Andrew Groch: “The age of the dictatorial conductor is dead”
BY ZOE DOUGLAS-KINGHORN, LEAD WRITER I suspect Andrew Groch may be a time lord. He hasn’t run off to join the circus, but damn, is […]
All the world’s a stage | Caleb Wong, cello
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? […]
Adam Tan: From “awful student” to YouTube star and festival founder
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON When Adam Tan first picked up a percussion instrument back in high school, he was “an awful student”. “My practice ethic was […]