An entirely casual chat with Stranger Things composers Kyle and Michael
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH LEVEL AND GAIN You may not have heard of Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, but you would undoubtedly know their music. The […]
australian arts journalism
When I play music with AYO, I feel “an intense optimism for the future”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Whether you’re a composer, performer, arts administrator, or even music journalist, it’s likely you’ve had an enriching experience with the Australian Youth […]
Where you can find a place of musical sanctuary this winter
BY LILY BRYANT A warm bath. An evening walk. A home-cooked meal. Calmness and comfort and safety. The word “sanctuary” conjures up any number of […]
VIDEO PREMIERE // Watch Michael Bakrnčev’s trio for flute, harp and violin
BY CUTCOMMON In 2017, Michael Bakrnčev wrote a piece of music as a gift for his wife Emily, which was performed on their wedding day. […]
How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]
Blue Mountains composer Emma Greenhill is rediscovering her music through movement
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Blue Mountains composer Emma Greenhill was so moved by the bushfires of 2019-20, she wrote a piece of music about it. Through Regrowth, Emma […]
Drift into this beautiful sanctuary of new Australian music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “When you do an improvisation with someone, you immediately know whether you’re going to be friends,” Mindy Meng Wang says. “It just […]
Four decades on, Dulcie Holland’s “bloody good” piece for piano and strings will finally be heard
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dulcie Holland’s Concertino for Piano and Strings — “pure pleasure for players and listeners”, as the composer described it — was written […]
Could “modular” compositions be the answer to concert cancellations and postponements?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Those of us who work in the music industry keep doing our best. But unfortunately, that best keeps getting disrupted by external […]
LIVE REVIEW // Chantal goes to see Pinchgut Opera’s Orontea
BY CHANTAL NGUYEN OronteaPinchgut OperaCity Recital Hall, 26 May I’ve stood in the bathroom queue during a Pinchgut intermission before, and heard audience members remark, […]