Nigel Westlake

Shaping the landscape of Australian guitar music

September 27, 2024

BY MATT WITHERS With a new album Here & Now just released, and the Australian Music Composition Competition open for its 10th anniversary, guitarist Matt […]

ANNOUNCED // Composer Nigel Westlake to receive Distinguished Services to the Australian Screen Award

October 27, 2022

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

September 7, 2021

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

July 25, 2019

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

November 22, 2018

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

April 11, 2018

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”

October 26, 2017

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

December 18, 2016

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

May 25, 2016

BY MADELINE ROYCROFT Through Nature to Eternity Tinalley String Quartet with guest artist Lior Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, 4 May ‘All […]