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 […]
Nigel Westlake
ANNOUNCED // Composer Nigel Westlake to receive Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award
CONTENT COURTESY APRA AMCOS APRA AMCOS and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers announce revered Australian composer and conductor Nigel Westlake will receive the Distinguished Services […]
Martha Marlow defies medical odds to release debut orchestral album
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Martha Marlow was fulfilling her second year at the National Art School when she was diagnosed with a rare auto-inflammatory disease. The […]
Violist Sergio Insuasti will debut as an AWO Academy player
BY EMMA SULLIVAN The Australian World Orchestra brings together some of Australia’s best and brightest musicians from orchestras all over the world. But what you […]
Lior: Young performers remind me why I make music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Compassion. Undoubtedly, it’s a quality that drives music itself. Through compassion, we can allow music to move us. We can feel […]
Ade Vincent on composing, Metropolis, and becoming a dad
BY CHLOE SANGER “There’s a balance to strike between being a specialist and a jack of all trades.” Ade Vincent would know – his […]
Jonathan Fitzgerald: Turning off “the dude”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Jonathan Fitzgerald received some expert advice as an undergrad: “Turn off the dude”. We all have one: it’s the voice in […]
CD Review: Brown and Breen’s Songs of Home
BY SAMUEL COTTELL Songs of Home Bonnie Brown and Louisa Breen Big Dwarf Music, 2016 Many people have tried to describe exactly what […]
Live Review: Through Nature to Eternity
BY MADELINE ROYCROFT Through Nature to Eternity Tinalley String Quartet with guest artist Lior Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, 4 May ‘All […]
Lior chats world premiere of his fresh Song Cycle
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Melbourne’s Lior Attar has taken out several ARIA awards for his hits as a singer-songwriter, though he’s never been bound by […]