Quart-Ed is using music education to celebrate diversity
BY CUTCOMMON In collaboration with the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Women’s Club has been hosting a series of recitals celebrating the works of women […]
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How I used Zoom to express creativity through isolation
BY BECKY LLEWELLYN We would like to welcome Becky in her first blog as a CutCommon contributor! Ah, 2021 – living through a global pandemic. […]
My first concert back
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Can you remember the experience of a pre-COVID concert? If you haven’t thought about it for a while, I’d invite you to […]
7 new compositions for countertenor
BY CUTCOMMON Seven artists have been selected as winners of the Panoramic Music and Melbourne Composers’ League Inaugural Solo Performer Commissioning Competition. Some emerging, some […]
6 ways you can take action against racial discrimination in music
BY ADAM TAN Music is supposed to be for everyone to enjoy, create, perform and share freely without prejudice. Yet the systems that are created […]
How we’re working to revitalise choral music
BY GUSTAV RASMUSSEN AND THORBEN SEIERØUSTAV, GHOST COAST CHOIR We’d like to welcome Gustav and Thorben on their first co-written story in CutCommon. Ghost Coast […]
We need to talk about gender diversity in the classical saxophone community
BY JAZMIN EALDEN The field of classical music has long been dominated by men. For classical saxophonists, this is amplified by the history of the […]
Dreaming of a commercial release
BY DR CORRINA BONSHEK As a composer, I didn’t have a clue how to get my music onto a commercial release until a revelatory chat, […]
Coming to terms with “loss in the face of an indifferent world”
BY RICHARD LAURENCE We would like to welcome Richard in his first blog with CutCommon. At its simplest, Gifts From Crows is my neoclassical music […]
OPINION // Art isn’t expendable – it’s one of our last hopes
BY JOSEPH ASQUITH, LEAD WRITER (EDUCATION) The arts has certainly been among the hardest-hit sectors during the coronavirus pandemic. Concerts have been postponed, playhouses shut, […]