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 […]
Articles
Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
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 […]
Kaylie Melville is gearing up for a “wildly exciting” concert with these percussionists
BY CUTCOMMON “Percussion is quite literally the beating heart of so much of our music.” So says Kaylie Melville, one of Australia’s top performers of […]
In conversation with Henry Eames, ANAM horn player
BY CUTCOMMON Melbourne horn player Henry Eames has a passion for music and education. So what better career move than to continue his education at […]
How concertmaster Natalie Chee navigates leadership and performance roles in the orchestra
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON From working memory to maths and creativity, music-making can stimulate an enormous amount of the brain’s resources — and it can feel […]
Andrew Aronowicz used folklore as inspiration for his new music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF Composer Andrew Aronowicz and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra go way back. Over a decade ago, Andrew was first selected to take part […]
Affinity Quartet returns to where it all began
BY CUTCOMMON When Affinity Quartet won the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, not only did the group take out the three most prestigious prizes, […]
Rochelle Ughetti is balancing audiology with professional violin
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Not everyone can rise as early as 6am, or spend the next 12 hours on the job (and then some). But when […]
Slava Grigoryan can’t get enough of this genre-busting piece
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When I sit down to chat with Australian guitarist Slava Grigoryan, there’s one topic he keeps circling back to — and that’s […]