Ceridwen McCooey had never performed live to air – then she won The Talent
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Imagine you’re performing a piece of music. Now imagine you’re playing it on a radio station that reaches hundreds of thousands of […]
australian composers
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. […]
VIDEO PREMIERE // Watch Flora Wong’s debut single for violin and metronome
BY CUTCOMMON To celebrate a number of special birthdays, Meanjin/Brisbane violinist Flora Wong has commissioned four new works to perform on her instrument (and with […]
Lydia Gardiner is using Instagram satire as source material for her new music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When Perth composer Lydia Gardiner opens Instagram and scrolls to a new post from Trash Fire Poetry, she’s struck with a wave […]
EVENTS // The ANAM Set Festival is happening this week!
BY CUTCOMMON Want to hear a lot of new Australian music? The Australian National Academy of Music is this week hosting the culmination of The […]
Zela Margossian: “My music is a story of who I am”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Where does the story of Zela Margossian begin? Perhaps it begins Beirut, where she was born and raised as a child. Maybe […]
Australian video game composers are getting their moment in the spotlight
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE We all love music that tells a story. Whether composed for an opera or ballet, we soak up the passion and tragedy […]
Making music for regional communities “is a responsibility of any Australian artist”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Alexander Voltz is based in Brisbane — a city boasting well over 2 million inhabitants. But the composer has found new inspiration […]
Is it worth being a composer in Australia?
BY MICHAEL BAKRNČEV In 2017, Melbourne contemporary classical composer Michael Bakrnčev addressed the question, Is it worth becoming a composer in Australia? Half a decade […]
“Our sexuality is no inhibition to our music making”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When your first performance of a program is a sell-out, and you receive a donation of funds to record an album based […]