How can we use music to achieve social change?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How can we use music to achieve social change? Artists have used outlets from painting to architecture as a way to […]
Peggy Polias
Making Waves podcast debuts on ABC Classic FM
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In 2016, two Australian composers launched an ambitious crowdfunding campaign that would unite emerging arts practitioners across the country for a special […]
Peggy Polias composes Picnic at Hanging Rock
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE More than a century ago, a group of school girls ventured into the Victorian outback for a Valentine’s Day picnic. Some […]
At what point do we stop emerging?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’ve been wondering something lately, and I don’t think I’m alone. What does it mean to be an ‘emerging’ artist? And when […]
Lisa Cheney and Peggy Polias are Making Conversation
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Lisa Cheney and Peggy Polias are smashing the stereotype of the “dead white male” composer in their latest venture Making Conversation. […]