Is conducting a science?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Is conducting a science? If you tuned into the ABC News Breakfast segment featuring Melbourne conductor Ingrid Martin, you’d be inclined to […]
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In conversation with Katie Yap, winner of this year’s $21k Freedman Classical Fellowship
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Melbourne violist Katie Yap has won The Music Trust’s 2022 Freedman Classical Fellowship. The competitive event offers musicians aged 35 and under […]
Andrea Lam wants you to choose the music in this interactive concert at the Joan
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE There’s a lot to weigh up when deciding which live events you’d like to see. Are you interested in the music on […]
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 […]
You can now learn how to compose for didgeridoo with these free online workshops
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Australian composers can now access a locally produced workshop series that will teach them how to write music for didgeridoo. The Art […]
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 […]
Morgan Carter “literally fell to the floor” when they received $20k to support their music education
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When soprano Morgan Carter was accepted into the Royal Northern College of Music, they were looking straight down the barrel of a […]
What it feels like to perform internationally after two years
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Back in 2019, Jeffrey Palmer wrote about the Music in the Alps Festival. This was before the pandemic brought international concert tours […]