EVENTS // Leaving the Western Shadows
CONTENT COURTESY THE AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA As he reaches the end of an action-packed 12 months, Lior takes a moment to reflect upon the […]
October 2018
LIVE REVIEW // Mark sees Lost+sound pop+up ii
BY MARK BOSCH Pop+up ii Lost+Sound San Telmo Photographic Studio, 27 October This was only the second entry in Lost+sound’s pop+up series, but […]
LIVE REVIEW // Joseph sees the Orava Quartet
BY JOSEPH ASQUITH, LEAD WRITER (EDUCATION) Czech Fantasy Orava Quartet Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House, 26 October What’d you miss? Seinfeld references from the […]
A one-man show (about white-middle-class-man privilege)
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Just in time for Halloween, Ben Grant is set to premiere his unique “electrOpera” The Rug tackling an especially frightening subject: […]
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 […]
LIVE REVIEW // Expressions Dance Company and The Australian Voices present Everyday Requiem
BY CELINE CHONG Everyday Requiem Expressions Dance Company and The Australian Voices QPAC, 12 October Vignettes from the past play back like the […]
Emerging composers, schools, and regional musicians to benefit from Flinders in 2019
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE It takes a special quartet indeed to create opportunities for those outside its four players. Flinders Quartet has announced its 2019 […]
“Remembering will help foster peace in the future”
BY ARCKO SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE “Til we meet again, if not in this world, in the next.” This is how a young soldier, a Bendigo […]
Australia’s best-loved music educator Richard Gill has died
Editor’s note, 28 October 2018: Australia’s leading music education advocate Richard Gill AO passed away in his home on Sunday. On Saturday, more than 70 […]
What a conductor can learn from a community orchestra
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Love playing music, but a full-time orchestral role isn’t for you? Have a second instrument you’d like to play with others? […]