Live review: Sleeping Beauty @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Sleeping Beauty (Dark Mofo) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Victorian Opera Theatre Royal, 10 June What’d you miss? Creepy puppets Skillful […]
July 2017
Live review: Silence @ Dark Mofo
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Silence (Dark Mofo) Tamara-Anna Cislowska (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra strings Federation Concert Hall, 28 June Not clapping during classical music […]
Live review: Objetos de Imitacion
BY THOMAS MISSON Objetos de Imitacion New music by various composers Simon Reade (conductor), Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Benjamin Price (saxophone), Graeme Jennings (violin), Dan Brown (percussion) […]
Lachlan Skipworth: Japan’s influence in my music
BY LACHLAN SKIPWORTH, COMPOSER I wish to write a little about my Piano Trio, and how the traditional shakuhachi piece Daha found its way […]
ANAM students perform in aid of humanitarian crisis
Musicians of the Australian National Academy of Music will present benefit concert Safe and Sound on July 21 at 7.30pm in aid of the Asylum […]
Guitarist Sam McAuliffe talks new improv release
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Sam McAuliffe may be the freshest muso on the Hobart scene. He kicked off 2017 with a move to the island […]
Con Fuoco: Isaac Mouskovias, piano
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to Con Fuoco, CutCommon’s interview series with emerging musicians in Australia. Pianist and vocalist Isaac Mouskovias was born in […]
Live review: Dark Chorus @ Dark Mofo
BY THOMAS MISSON Dark Chorus Dark Mofo Theatre Royal, 17 June A dark circle filled the middle of the stage at the Theatre […]
Poetry and tragedy with Simon Tedeschi
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE You get shipwrecked, finally make it home and your wife is shacked up with your best mate. Tragic enough to die […]
What I learnt at the Charlotte New Music Festival
BY LEWIS INGHAM This is the second blog about Lewis Ingham’s American journey, in which the composer writes about his experience in the Charlotte […]