2016: Meet the Team
Here at CutCommon, we’re working to bring you some exciting business this year. New content, new initiatives, and new opportunities. So as we prepare to […]
January 2016
Live review: The Pearlfishers
BY ANGUS MCPHERSON Bizet’s ‘The Pearlfishers’ Opera Australia Sydney Opera House, 15 January Australian director Michael Gow’s new production of Bizet’s ‘The Pearlfishers’ […]
Blog: AYO National Music Camp
BY ANTONIA ZAPPIA CutCommon contributor Antonia Zappia blogs about her experience of this year’s Australian Youth Orchestra National Music Camp. Writing from the Words About Music […]
Schwing on Bruny Island, jazz, and ‘painter envy’
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Neck is a narrow strip of land; an isthmus that connects one part of the wild Bruny Island to another. […]
Live Review: PolArt Gala Music Concert
BY LEAH BLANKENDAAL PolArt Gala Music Concert 13th National Polish Arts Festival Zelman Symphony Orchestra Melbourne Arts Centre Hamer Hall, 3 January One […]
Josten Myburgh talks improvisation, collaboration
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Perth composer Josten Myburgh, 21, reflects on his 2013 journey to Palermo in new piece ‘a window in Sicily’. The 40-minute […]
Vale Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
BY ANGUS DAVISON Today we acknowledge the tragic passing of an incredible figure in the history of 20th Century music, Pierre Boulez. Born in […]
Originality versus….?
BY SCOTT MCINTYRE Originality has been an obsession of mine. As a young composer studying at the University of Melbourne in the early 1990s, […]
Live Review: Wallfisch at MONA
BY ANGUS DAVISON Joanna Wallfisch Solo Australia Tour MONA, 4 January It’s been a big few years for Joanna Wallfisch. Since moving to […]
Gut Instincts: Old instruments meet new music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The sound of early music performed on modern instruments is not unfamiliar – but what happens when it’s the other way […]