Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE National Reconciliation Week takes place from 27 May to 3 June. This year, the theme is: Be a Voice for Generations. Voices […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In 2020, Adele Schonhardt and Chris Howlett founded the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. They offered a lifeline to performing artists: a way […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Australian percussionist Kaylie Melville offers a fun teaser for her upcoming Melbourne Recital Centre event: “Our performance begins before you even arrive […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you’ve ever tutored music, you’ll know the lesson itself is only the beginning. There’s scheduling (and rescheduling), invoicing (and chasing invoices), […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Australian composer Darren Lim writes music for the screen. He uses sound to help fuel the narratives of feature films and documentaries. […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A portable timber cube seats 52 audience members, and they’re positioned in circles around a tiny stage. A string quartet is stationed […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A great piece of classical music can get under your skin. I’m not just talking about goosebumps — I’m talking about the […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Alison Wormell is a British-Australian bassoonist, film producer, and outdoor enthusiast who uses the pronoun ‘they’. All of these facts are relevant […]
BY CUTCOMMON This April, the Australian Youth Orchestra will perform works from Shostakovich and Mahler — an experience one musician likens to stepping into an […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Many musicians will train hard — really hard — on their chosen instrument. Then, there’s that second instrument. The one that might […]
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