How Jasmin Wing-Yin Leung secured funding for her dream project
BY CUTCOMMON If you’re a composer looking for funding to help bring your project to life, the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund should be high […]
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“The best weeks of orchestral and chamber music playing I have had in my life”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Imagine a place you could spend two weeks making music, making friends, making connections you’ll keep forever. Making the time of your […]
How AYO is “democratising” classical music for Australian communities
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music is for everyone. Isn’t it? It depends on who you ask. Some might find the cost of a ticket prohibitive. Others […]
How Brenda Gifford is sharing “community, language, culture” through her newest composition
BY LILY BRYANT Have you ever considered the way spoken word plays a musical role in a classical piece? Personally, I understood the use of […]
Elena Kats-Chernin’s music honours a woman who escaped the war and made Australia home
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How do you share the story of a woman’s life in just 30 minutes? How do you capture their spirit without using […]
Yasmin Arkinstall is the star of a new one-woman opera about life with obsessive-compulsive disorder
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 […]
What makes an interesting set of variations on a theme?
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 […]
Australia’s leading koto master Satsuki Odamura will play brand new music in Silk, Metal, Wood
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 […]
How two brothers founded the first Australian Indian Orchestra
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Last year, Sydney brothers Sagar and Suraj Nagaraj were involved in a string orchestra. On their concert program were works by Tchaikovsky […]
How I’m keeping up my chops for 15+ hours of Wagner’s Ring Cycle
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Wagner’s Ring Cycle is a marathon for audiences and performers. It features four individual operas with a combined duration of at least […]