Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER In early September, Melbourne Recital Centre will host an evening in concert with international classical guitar sensation Campbell Diamond and […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Operatic mezzo soprano Yasmin Arkinstall is a mental health advocate and artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder — and she is about to star […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE We’ve all experienced earworms – those little fragments of a melody that get stuck in our heads and remain, on repeat, for […]
BY CUTCOMMON Aside from their beautiful choral compositions, composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes had one thing in common (and stick with us — it’s […]
BY CUTCOMMON Phoebe Gardner has always enjoyed listening to recordings of the Berlin Philharmonic. Now, the violinist has received the rare opportunity to learn from […]
BY CUTCOMMON It’s been a couple of weeks since young musicians from around the world received some extraordinary news: they had won a prize in […]
BY CUTCOMMON Alice Chance comes from a long line of “very creative, tough-as-nails women”. Her deep connection to family is explored in her composition Heirloom. […]
BY CUTCOMMON Joseph Franklin isn’t afraid to admit that today’s world is…well, worth being afraid of. As a global community, we face the horrors of […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word frisson as “a sudden feeling of excitement or fear, especially when you think that something is […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Satsuki Odamura positions herself before a curved length of fine-grained Paulownia wood. There are 13 strings attached, their nylon stretched over little bridges […]
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