This new orchestra will serve the 2.5 million people of Greater Western Sydney
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE February 21 was a special day for Greater Western Sydney. The region, home to one in every 11 Australians, has opened its […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
How this collective will “give oxygen” to diverse creative voices
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’d like to preface this interview with a quote from its subject, opera singer and educator Daniel Szesiong Todd 鄭時雄: There is […]
Passing the mic // An interview with composer Gabrielle Cadenhead
BY LILY BRYANT, SERIES CURATOR Welcome to a brand new year of amazing Australian artists, and a brand new year of Passing the Mic. I […]
Composer Jodi Rose is making music out of architecture
BY CAMERON LAM, APRA AMCOS Composer Jodi Rose’s ambitious Singing Bridges project is an urban sonic sculpture playing the cables of bridges as musical instruments. Through the sound of vibrations […]
The Quoll delivers a “strange elegy to the end of the world”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE As I prepared for this interview, a bushfire raged across the north west of lutruwita/Tasmania. At 99 hectares, the Tullah flames served […]
Hey Mate. How’s your mental health?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hey Mate. How’s your mental health? It’s a question at the forefront of an Australian resource designed to better the lives of […]
Life is tougher than ever in 2022, but help is available to arts workers
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Hope has taken many forms throughout the pandemic. There’s been a feeling that restrictions are only temporary; that live music will return […]
Teaching music online in the pandemic has yielded creative surprises, like mixing ‘Blob Opera’ and beatboxing
BY ROBBIE MACKAY, QUEENS UNIVERSITY, ONTARIO, THE CONVERSATION Learning to make music is a full mind-and-body activity. Whether teaching how to play a musical instrument, […]
How Pedro Bromfman composed Far Cry 6
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE Pedro Bromfman is not a gamer. Sure, as a kid he played a bit of Nintendo and Atari. But […]
ANAM is connecting its musicians and donors like family
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Jannie Brown’s family has long been connected to music. Her great-great uncle was William Henry Dow, one of Australia’s leading instrument makers […]