What do you wish you’d known before starting your music degree?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Georgina Palmer is a composition student. She’s studying at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, but before she got there, she had no […]
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EVENTS // Dorcas McClean Competition and Australian National Violin Conference
CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC In February, 2022 the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is hosting the Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship for Violinists and the […]
LIVE REVIEW // Kiya experiences Spaces of Life and Death
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Spaces of Life and DeathEli Simic-Prosic (composer/curator), Elliott Gyger (conductor), Tamara Kohler (flutes), Kaylie Melville (percussion), Gemma Kneale (cello), Jacob […]
LIVE REVIEW // Carissa goes to Guitar Perspectives
BY CARISSA DYALL It was a weekend showing off what the classical guitar had to offer. The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music hosted the Guitar Perspectives […]
Zeitgeist Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In the past week, we’ve been showcasing some very special emerging talent — each group of which took part in the Mimir […]
Invictus Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Did you catch our interview with Aidan Filshie of the Kalon Quartet? Aidan talked us through the experience of being selected to […]
Kalon Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Aidan Filshie, “recording sucks”. Capturing your performance to perfection, on video, in a single take, is going to be tough […]
LIVE REVIEW // Lydia sees opera @ the Peninsula Summer Music Festival
BY LYDIA MCCLELLAND, WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL CUTCOMMON YOUNG CRITICS’ MENTORSHIP PROGRAM Linda Barcan and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Opera StudentsPeninsula Summer Music Festival 12 […]
Transforming plastic waste into an intimate live performance
BY CARISSA DYALL D E B R I SColourful Collective (Alex Childs, Sophie Dahm, Rose de la Monaña) 318 Saint Georges Road, North Fitzroy, November 2018 Deliberate. Intimate. Thought-provoking. A room full of plastic. D E B R I S […]
LISTEN // Episode #4 of Scored podcast is live!
Scored is Melbourne musician Kiya van der Linden-Kian’s fresh new podcast, which confronts the “cavernous fear” experienced by those leaving the academic world to build a […]