new Australian music

This creative bootcamp is “totally driven by the participants and what they want to create”

August 15, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How long do you think it’d take you to write, rehearse, perform, and professionally record a new piece of music? As you […]

Lamorna Nightingale hopes you’ll “walk away with energy to make positive change” after this climate-themed event

August 5, 2022

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How has your relationship to the environment changed over the course of your life? It’s a question the curators of BackStage Music […]

How we’re using “openness and trust” to express new ideas in composition

August 2, 2022

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 […]

Australian composer Byron Mark is fusing Beethoven with his flamenco-inspired rhythms

August 2, 2022

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”

August 1, 2022

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 […]

VIDEO PREMIERE // Watch Michael Bakrnčev’s trio for flute, harp and violin

June 24, 2022

BY CUTCOMMON In 2017, Michael Bakrnčev wrote a piece of music as a gift for his wife Emily, which was performed on their wedding day. […]

VIDEO PREMIERE // Watch Flora Wong’s debut single for violin and metronome

June 2, 2022

BY CUTCOMMON To celebrate a number of special birthdays, Meanjin/Brisbane violinist Flora Wong has commissioned four new works to perform on her instrument (and with […]