How Auslan is giving this children’s choir its voice
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Not every child in Australia has access to music education. This is particularly the case for […]
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Applications are now open for the TSO Australian Composers’ School
CONTENT COURTESY TASMANIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The TSO Australian Composers’ School is a unique opportunity to develop orchestral composition skills with one of Australia’s foremost symphony […]
Matt Laffan is putting music therapy at the frontline during COVID-19
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) There’s no doubt that frontline workers have been our heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the […]
How to own your music career (when you have endometriosis)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Debilitating cramps. Heavy bleeding. Digestive issues. Lower back pain. Fatigue. For many women, these symptoms are written off as ‘period pain’. It’s […]
EVENTS // Project Lieder will stream a dramatised Wolf cycle
CONTENT COURTESY PROJECT LIEDER Australian musicians Rachel Pines, Elli Welsh, and Oliver Boyd have co-founded Project Lieder — an organisation creating unique online art song […]
EVENTS // Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Jane Rutter, Figaro Flutes and Flowers, Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
CONTENT COURTESY JANE RUTTER Figaro, Flutes and Flowers features brilliant bass baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes and internationally acclaimed flutist Jane Rutter in a musical celebration […]
We need to talk about gender diversity in the classical saxophone community
BY JAZMIN EALDEN The field of classical music has long been dominated by men. For classical saxophonists, this is amplified by the history of the […]
EVENTS // Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra returns to Melbourne
CONTENT COURTESY AUSTRALIAN ROMANTIC & CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA The Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra has announced a special performance featuring soprano Jacqueline Porter entitled Love & […]
Film composer Nathan Halpern is delivering empathy out of darkness
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE VIA LEVEL AND GAIN Nathan Halpern’s two latest projects have one thing in common: they’re dark. The film Swallow is a psychological […]
How Ilan Eshkeri scored David Attenborough’s new BBC nature documentary
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) VIA LEVEL AND GAIN Many of us have watched Sir David Attenborough’s documentaries. You might’ve tuned […]