Rural Commuters: Lilly Bennett, double bass
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dedication. It’s learning your parts. It’s developing your technique. It’s rocking up to rehearsal. In fact, for some, it’s embarking on […]
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How to start your own opera company
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Reckon you can start up your own performance company? Do it. Why not? This “let’s just do it” attitude was adopted […]
Ade Vincent on composing, Metropolis, and becoming a dad
BY CHLOE SANGER “There’s a balance to strike between being a specialist and a jack of all trades.” Ade Vincent would know – his […]
Young artists not to miss at CIMF
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Tours to the United States and Europe. Winners of prestigious awards and fellowships. Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. Performances […]
Completely smashing it with Arcadia Winds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’m excited about Arcadia Winds. Undoubtedly one of the country’s most active young groups, it all started back in 2013 when […]
Gemma Peacocke composes the poems of oppressed women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Your eyes aren’t eyes, They’re bees. I can find no cure For their sting. This is one of the folk poems […]
WTF?! Can we really ‘hear’ art?
Welcome to our new series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring you informed answers […]
The sound of Europe has never been closer
BY MYLES OAKEY Shakespeare’s Globe, situated by the River Thames and backing on to the bustling Borough Market, is a living homage to the […]
An interview with composer Liza Lim
BY LAURA BIEMMI Composer Liza Lim has received the Don Banks Award Award to recognise her outstanding contribution to the Australian and international music […]
Behind the Curtain | Perry Joyce, educator
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE So you’ve been to see the opera. Maybe you were a concertgoer, taken aback by the majestic staging and tales of […]