Marina Prior: “Young singers should be prepared to do lots of hard work”
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Marina Prior left her music studies at university after two years. It didn’t stop her from picking up more than 30 lead […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
“Music dies” when you don’t program new works
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Australian National Academy of Music doesn’t care when a piece of music was written – as long as its fulfilling. Fulfilling […]
Con Fuoco | Pavan Kumar Hari, percussion (and piano, dance, composition…)
Welcome to Con Fuoco, our series with emerging artists in Australia. Pavan Kumar Hari is a composer, performer, dancer, and director. He has been performing since the […]
Music education matters, says Harry Ward, violin
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 […]
Uplifting and inspiring? You’ll want to hear the Silkroad Ensemble
BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Ever checked out the tags on Netflix to find your next show to binge-watch? Maybe it was tagged under […]
Oliver Patrice Weder tells us what it’s like to compose for Spitfire Audio
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON, GLOBAL SERIES EDITOR Coming from a purely performance and composition background, Oliver Patrice Weder has carved himself a unique path into […]
What to expect from the new Phoenix Collective
BY EMMA SULLIVAN You might not immediately associate the improvisatory style of the Turtle Island String Quartet’s music with the likes of Mozart, but violinist […]
Van-Anh Nguyen is bridging the gap between classical and pop
BY CELINE CHONG, LEAD WRITER (QLD) The classical and pop genres of music are, to most, worlds apart. From the perspective of a classical […]
The people in this choir can’t talk, but they can sing
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) For many of us in the music industry, we’ve had to sing. Maybe it was because […]
Life after uni: Shubshri Kandiah, musical theatre
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]