It’s one step closer to the Berlin Philharmonic for Phoebe Gardner
BY CUTCOMMON Phoebe Gardner has always enjoyed listening to recordings of the Berlin Philharmonic. Now, the violinist has received the rare opportunity to learn from […]
July 2023
EVENTS // Up Close with Elena Kats-Chernin
CONTENT COURTESY JOAN SUTHERLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE As part of The Joan’s Salon Series, renowned composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin returns to Penrith for an […]
“Have the courage to be yourself”: How Trio Orelon won $25k at this international music competition
BY CUTCOMMON It’s been a couple of weeks since young musicians from around the world received some extraordinary news: they had won a prize in […]
4 classical music concerts you can check out in August
BY CUTCOMMON The Melbourne Recital Centre scheduled some ripper gigs in its July program: popular guitar brothers Ziggy & Miles had commissioned a new piece […]
Alice Chance recorded three generations of women for this emotive “mother-daughter motet”
BY CUTCOMMON Alice Chance comes from a long line of “very creative, tough-as-nails women”. Her deep connection to family is explored in her composition Heirloom. […]
Joseph Franklin has composed a horror concerto you can hear, watch, and eat
BY CUTCOMMON Joseph Franklin isn’t afraid to admit that today’s world is…well, worth being afraid of. As a global community, we face the horrors of […]
Jenna Pratt’s new album FRISSON is infused with “distinct emotions and purposes”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word frisson as “a sudden feeling of excitement or fear, especially when you think that something is […]
EVENTS // Still Life with Avalanche
CONTENT COURTESY ENSEMBLE OFFSPRING Repetition, chaos and beauty become one in this program of musical extremes, where the greatest contemporary composers examine every aspect of […]
Australia’s leading koto master Satsuki Odamura will play brand new music in Silk, Metal, Wood
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Satsuki Odamura positions herself before a curved length of fine-grained Paulownia wood. There are 13 strings attached, their nylon stretched over little bridges […]
ANNOUNCED! These are the 2023 Australian Women in Music Awards finalists
CONTENT COURTESY AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN MUSIC AWARDS A special shout-out to CutCommon’s very own editor Stephanie Eslake, who has been named a finalist in the […]