Articles

What do you wish you’d known before starting your music degree?

February 2, 2024

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Georgina Palmer is a composition student. She’s studying at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, but before she got there, she had no […]

How Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung secured funding for her dream project

January 19, 2024

BY CUTCOMMON If you’re a composer looking for funding to help bring your project to life, the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund should be high […]

How Danny Lucin’s mixed ensemble is “pioneering early brass in Australia”

January 16, 2024

BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER Danny Lucin has a particularly strong passion for the cornetto (the historical wind instrument rather than the ice cream). Considered […]

“The best weeks of orchestral and chamber music playing I have had in my life”

December 20, 2023

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Imagine a place you could spend two weeks making music, making friends, making connections you’ll keep forever. Making the time of your […]

Get ready to hear 20 pieces of brand new Australian music in 2024

December 4, 2023

BY CUTCOMMON The inaugural ANAM Set was responsible for the creation of 67 pieces of new Australian music. It was an epic commissioning project — […]

Ade Vincent and Lior are showing why “artists won’t be replaced by AI”

November 15, 2023

BY CUTCOMMON When composer Ade Vincent and singer-songwriter Lior started their latest commission for the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, they wrote a list of emotions they […]

In conversation with ANAM Concerto Competition winner Joshua Jones

November 10, 2023

BY CUTCOMMON Performing as a soloist is hard. Performing in front of a world-class orchestra is really hard. And being watched and adjudicated while you’re […]

The Hatched Composer Intensive is bringing you a “taste of the music of tomorrow”

November 7, 2023

BY CUTCOMMON There’s an old adage in the world of music, and that’s to know the rules before you break them. Composer Damien Ricketson is […]

“All egos are left at the door” when it comes to the Australian World Orchestra

November 6, 2023

BY CUTCOMMON Imagine conducting an orchestra that brings together some of the leading talent in all of Australia for a one-night-only performance of Mahler. Sound […]