ANNOUNCED // These are the winners of the 2022 Art Music Awards
CONTENT COURTESY APRA AMCOS The winners of the 2022 Art Music Awards were announced yesterday evening at Meat Market in North Melbourne, recognising some of Australia’s […]
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This creative bootcamp is “totally driven by the participants and what they want to create”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How long do you think it’d take you to write, rehearse, perform, and professionally record a new piece of music? As you […]
The Phonetic Orchestra wants to redefine how you listen to music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER While the pandemic has been a turbulent and uncertain time for our performing arts community, one clear benefit has emerged: […]
Paul Ballam-Cross has arranged a bunch of classical guitar studies for electric bass
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Studies aren’t just for practising your technique, or so Paul Ballam-Cross’ new EP shows us. Enjoyable for the sake of listening, and […]
How we’re using “openness and trust” to express new ideas in composition
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Melbourne Recital Centre describes its upcoming event with Phonetic Orchestra as “an audio-visual journey through spaces physical, digital and imagined”. On this […]
Australian composer Byron Mark is fusing Beethoven with his flamenco-inspired rhythms
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE We all have that one piece of music we just click with. The piece we return to throughout our lives, playing or […]
Z.E.N. Trio: “Chamber music is a time for us to put our own egos aside”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Z.E.N. Trio is an international ensemble in the truest sense of the term: its pianist Zhang Zuo (Zee Zee) is based in […]
5 hard lessons on how to launch an orchestra
BY CUTCOMMON Back in 2011, Bourby Webster had a dream for an orchestra that would create “music for everyone”. And when she founded and developed […]
The story of Australia’s first female mechanic will be brought to life on bass
BY EMMA SULLIVAN As the principal bassist of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, I am usually found at the back of the ensemble, providing the foundation to […]
Strauss composed “one of the greatest works ever written” – and the Australian World Orchestra is about to perform it
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER If there’s one thing that unites us more than the universal language of music, it’s our universal love of storytelling. […]