First-time curators Sophie and Liam program 11 Australian compositions in Vivid
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you were curating a music festival for the first time, what would you choose to include on your program? Emerging composer-performers […]
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PROFILE // Meet Kurrajong violinist Arabella Logan, 12
BY ALISON PARIS, LEAD WRITER (CHILDREN AND EARLY LEARNING) The life of a student is a busy one: alongside school, homework, and chores, kids’ schedules […]
No score, no guidance for Tim Munro in Ten Thousand Birds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When Tim Munro performs this June, he’ll do so with few comforts: there will be no score, no physical guidance for performers, […]
Jacqueline Collyer composes a fantasy series (while she’s still at uni)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Think you have to graduate before you can gain industry experience? Jacqueline Collyer would disagree. This emerging Tasmanian composer has teamed up […]
Twiggy from Arcadia Winds on music education and Australian composition
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE (EDITOR) WITH LAURA BIEMMI (TRENDS EDITOR) David ‘Twiggy’ Reichelt reckons the wind quintet can be a “formidable” concoction of instruments for any composer. […]
Jeffrey Palmer and Riko Higuma release an album dedicated to beauty
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE, EDITOR It mightn’t come as a surprise to you that many of the familiar faces on the CutCommon team are also forging […]
Laura Masotto has co-founded a record label and released her first solo album
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON What do you do if there are no opportunities that fit your musical niche? Well, if you’re Laura Masotto, you simply create […]
Samuel Parry: Finding new love for concert band music
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON We last spoke to Samuel Parry about the Western Australian Charity Orchestra in our first print edition. Now, with the second edition […]
Everything you wanted to know about the Alexander Technique
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) If you’re in the music industry, chances are you’ve heard of the Alexander Technique. In recent […]
This is how the Braille music code works
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) The Braille music code was invented to empower musicians with blindness or low vision to read […]