Writing screen music for “heroes being pushed to their limits”
BY CUTCOMMON The new Netflix series Man on Fire is as thrilling as anything composer Max Aruj has worked on before: Mission: Impossible, Top Gun: […]
May 2026
Cross-cultural collaboration “essential in finding one’s own voice” in music
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON How can we have a well-rounded music education in Australia without exposure to the music of cultures across the world? This is […]
How Arcadia Winds has achieved 13 years of success in classical music so far
BY CUTCOMMON This is not the first time we’ve featured Arcadia Winds in CutCommon. Since the chamber group’s founding in 2013, we’ve caught up with […]
Shorter concerts are making classical music more accessible
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON Relaxed performances are gaining popularity because they turn a formal, classical concertgoing experience into one that’s more casual and inviting to those […]
Johannes Grosso will co-direct Gran Partita with a fellow woodwind powerhouse
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON This May, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is taking two of its leading instrumentalists, and putting them front-and-centre as dual directors of an […]