From timpani to the podium, Jen Winley sheds light on a fulfilling career
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF Orchestral percussionist to classroom teacher to professional conductor isn’t a typical career trajectory — but it’s a path Jen Winley found herself […]
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How Katy Abbott composed a work of compassion for asylum seekers in offshore detention
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER While looking back at her most recent creative undertakings, Australian composer Katy Abbott acknowledges she has “a penchant for setting […]
How Danny Lucin’s mixed ensemble is “pioneering early brass in Australia”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER Danny Lucin has a particularly strong passion for the cornetto (the historical wind instrument rather than the ice cream). Considered […]
LIVE REVIEW // Miranda hears Academy of St Martin in the Fields @ Sydney Opera House
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Program 1)Sydney Opera House, 7 October Our very own Sydney Opera House was […]
Ensemble Liaison: “We are very good friends, and I think that’s the bottom line”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER In early September, Melbourne Recital Centre will host an evening in concert with international classical guitar sensation Campbell Diamond and […]
LIVE REVIEW // Miranda goes to see Kronos Quartet @ the SOH
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) KRONOS Five DecadesKronos QuartetSydney Opera House, 14 March It is rare to attend a string quartet concert in which […]
Nodoka Okisawa is about to make her Australian debut — and she’ll conduct new Australian music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming Debussy’s Nocturnes concerts mark two exciting Australian firsts: not only will the program feature a […]
The Phonetic Orchestra wants to redefine how you listen to music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER While the pandemic has been a turbulent and uncertain time for our performing arts community, one clear benefit has emerged: […]
Strauss composed “one of the greatest works ever written” – and the Australian World Orchestra is about to perform it
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER If there’s one thing that unites us more than the universal language of music, it’s our universal love of storytelling. […]
How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]