Australian Youth Orchestra

LIVE REVIEW // Lydia sees Parsifal (for 4 hours)

March 4, 2019

BY LYDIA MCCLELLAND, WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL CUTCOMMON YOUNG CRITICS’ MENTORSHIP PROGRAM ParsifalVictorian Opera with the Australian Youth Orchestra and Richard Mills (conductor)Palais Theatre, 20 […]

All the world’s a stage | Runa Murase, violin

February 25, 2019

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Should you stay in Australia to build your music career, or travel overseas in search of bigger things? What even are those […]

Con Fuoco | Pavan Kumar Hari, percussion (and piano, dance, composition…)

February 19, 2019

Welcome to Con Fuoco, our series with emerging artists in Australia. Pavan Kumar Hari is a composer, performer, dancer, and director. He has been performing since the […]

A day in the life of AYO National Music Camp

February 4, 2019

BY LILY BRYANT Every January, hundreds of Australia’s top young musicians gather in the sweltering heat to spend two weeks working with some of the […]

Lior: Young performers remind me why I make music

November 22, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Compassion. Undoubtedly, it’s a quality that drives music itself. Through compassion, we can allow music to move us. We can feel […]

Australia’s overwhelming response to Richard Gill tribute concert

November 15, 2018

BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Disclaimer: This feature was written under the guidance of the University of Sydney as part of Sylvie‘s studies in publishing. […]

WTF?! Piano accompaniment vs playing with orchestra

November 5, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to our series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring […]

This is what it’s like to play in the orchestra for VO

October 10, 2018

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Magical things happen at the opera – there’s no question about that. But there’s also no question that the attention is […]

A chat with Australian composer Mark Holdsworth

October 8, 2018

BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Writing music can often seem like a mystifying and intellectual process. But for some, the experience can be “uniquely […]