When the music industry doesn’t understand your voice
BY JEFFREY PALMER Jeffrey Palmer is CutCommon’s United States correspondent. But he is also an established countertenor, and has performed in venues across Europe, China, […]
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We asked a resume writer how you can land that job in the arts industry
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Flautist Jacquie Liversidge graduated from her music degree in 2013. She’d performed in flute ensembles, featured on multiple instruments in the 2012 […]
Music education matters, says Robin Wilson, violin
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]
How I learnt to stop worrying (and love the music I have to keep practising)
BY LAURA BARTON When I began studying violin at the Australian National Academy of Music almost three years ago, I underwent the same process that […]
5 ways to navigate your music career (as an introvert)
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON You might’ve read my recent story about what it’s like to be in introvert in classical music. From hiding behind our phones […]
Could this be why we still love Mozart so much?
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Party animal. Revolutionist. Bohemian. Uber-famous artist with the lifestyle to match. This is how conductor Benjamin Northey would describe 20-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus […]
This is why artists need access to free mental health support
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE, OPINIONS EDITOR AND COMPOSER Do it all. Never turn down an opportunity: be sure to say yes to everything that comes your […]
All the world’s a stage | Rain Liu, violin
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 bigger things? […]
20 ways to enhance your music career outside uni
BY TRACY FRIEDLANDER Tracy Friedlander is the founder of Crushing Classical. We’d like to welcome her to CutCommon as she shares her industry advice column […]
A chat with young conductor Eduardo Strausser
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Young artists of the Australian National Academy of Music will soon have the privilege of working with highly experienced, world-renowned conductor Eduardo […]