How Emma Sandall’s fertility journey inspired a bold new cabaret
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When Emma Sandall read Sheila Heti’s bestselling book Motherhood, she resonated with its themes. Living in America, the writer and award-winning dancer […]
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Siobhan Stagg is channelling her “purest poet and inner storyteller”
BY CUTCOMMON Siobhan Stagg is a traveller. The soprano graduated from the University of Melbourne and has since performed with orchestras and opera companies around […]
Competitions can be “excellent devices for growth” of young music students
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Competitions can be challenging even for the most professional of players. So where do young musicians fit into the picture — those […]
Véronique Serret sings stories of nature in her new album Migrating Bird
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Véronique Serret has performed as concertmaster of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, played in bands with Archie Roach, and worked with the Australian Chamber […]
How I used “serious fun” to build my 42-student music school
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE At the start of the pandemic, Ambre Hammond had four students in her own music school. Now, the Sydney piano teacher has […]
Orava Quartet will premiere a new Australian work this month
BY CUTCOMMON It’s safe to say that most musicians would be happy with a review praising their ability to “defy the laws of physics”. But […]
Kaylie Melville talks us through her new leadership role with Speak Percussion
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Where will your music career take you? For Melbourne percussionist Kaylie Melville, it led her into major festival appearances, premieres of Australian […]
Unfamiliar music “can provide a window into how others think”
BY CUTCOMMON In 2022, Reuben Johnson heard his Australian National Academy of Music colleagues perform Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. So engrossing was […]
Eliza Shephard is asking Australia to “think big and be brave” in programming works by women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Eliza Shephard has long been concerned with a lack of representation in the Australian music industry. She wanted to see more works […]
Amy Rita releases new piano music inspired by the winter solstice
BY LILY BRYANT Amidst the seemingly never-ending discussion about the inaccessibility of classical music, a quiet hero has emerged: contemporary-classical piano. A genre perfectly suited […]