56 concerts in 10 days? Welcome to ANAM Quartetthaus
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A portable timber cube seats 52 audience members, and they’re positioned in circles around a tiny stage. A string quartet is stationed […]
April 2023
EVENTS // Echoes and Orbits with Ensemble Offspring
CONTENT COURTESY ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING Echoes and Orbits is an intimate and playful program featuring upbeat and eclectic works for percussion and cello. Mainly spanning the […]
Juliana Kay wants you to break a sweat in these Classical Music Workouts
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A great piece of classical music can get under your skin. I’m not just talking about goosebumps — I’m talking about the […]
Alison Wormell is “a better musician” for spending time in the great outdoors
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Alison Wormell is a British-Australian bassoonist, film producer, and outdoor enthusiast who uses the pronoun ‘they’. All of these facts are relevant […]
EVENTS // Be there for the inaugural New Music Days festival
CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE New Music Days is a burgeoning three-day festival and the Melbourne Recital Centre’s latest offering in experiential programming. Each performance at New […]
5 shows you can’t miss at New Music Days
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How often do you get the chance to be there at the very beginning of a festival? The launch of a fresh […]
An obituary for the musical life of Susan Frykberg (10 October 1954 – 7 April 2023)
BY PROFESSOR CAT HOPE, SIR ZELMAN COWEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE, MONASH UNIVERSITY Susan Frykberg was an electronic music composer and sound artist whose […]
To Jessica Scott, playing in an orchestra “feels like you’ve stepped inside an artwork”
BY CUTCOMMON This April, the Australian Youth Orchestra will perform works from Shostakovich and Mahler — an experience one musician likens to stepping into an […]
LIVE REVIEW // Martin goes to see The A Cappella Academy at UKARIA
BY MARTIN CHENEY The A Cappella AcademyAdelaide Chamber Singers, Festival Statesmen Chorus, The Gesualdo Six, Aurora Vocal EnsembleUKARIA Cultural Centre, 26 March It’s almost criminal […]
LIVE REVIEW // Jeffrey hears Jupiter Ensemble at Princeton
BY JEFFREY CHARLES PALMER, UNITED STATES CORRESPONDENT Jupiter EnsemblePresented by Princeton University ConcertsRichardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 30 March I recently […]