Shaping the landscape of Australian guitar music
BY MATT WITHERS With a new album Here & Now just released, and the Australian Music Composition Competition open for its 10th anniversary, guitarist Matt […]
Elena Kats-Chernin
This concert series is entirely dedicated to Australian women in music
BY CUTCOMMON This year, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is showcasing four female-identifying composers on its mainstage as part of its Celebrating Women in Music series. […]
Elena Kats-Chernin’s music honours a woman who escaped the war and made Australia home
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How do you share the story of a woman’s life in just 30 minutes? How do you capture their spirit without using […]
Three years on, Australian Digital Concert Hall continues to change the game for the live performance industry
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In 2020, Adele Schonhardt and Chris Howlett founded the Melbourne Digital Concert Hall. They offered a lifeline to performing artists: a way […]
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 […]
A new digital concert series is making music for everyone
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music by female-identifying composers. A digital future for the performing arts industry. Diversity in the concert hall. Choosing not to perform Mozart. […]
LIVE REVIEW // Miranda goes to see Next Chapters
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Next ChaptersWilloughby Symphony Orchestra and Legs On the WallThe Concourse, 22 May There were many paths my Saturday night […]
Kirsty McCahon on the joy of playing Australian music with friends
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The pandemic has taught us many things, but one of the more contradictory lessons is that it has somehow, against all the […]
Why we love Elena Kats-Chernin
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE, EDITOR This story was first published in the Kill Your Darlings literary journal as part of the inaugural KYD New Critic Award. […]
5 types of orchestra gig we dig
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Picture a night out with the orchestra. Instinctively, your mind might conjure the following images: traditional concert blacks, traditional concert hall, traditional […]