Conductors, you’re about to get a new educational resource — and it’s all online
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What does a conductor do, anyway? It’s a question many people ask — including conductors. That’s why Ingrid Martin is launching […]
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Music education matters, says Jackson Bankovic, trombone
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]
Bach in a bar (with beer) is the concert we’ve needed all along
BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Move over Justin. It’s Heinrich Biber who’s getting played in this underground bar. Evan Streater’s next concert in The […]
Halo and Wolfenstein games composer talks ’80s synths and influences
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON FOR LEVEL AND GAIN Tom Salta is an experienced video game composer with the ability to jump between starkly different game and […]
Chris Howlett explains how Beethoven “changed Western music forever”
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Have you ever liked the idea of a doing a marathon, but your couch remains awfully and conveniently enticing? Fear not, for […]
Mai Fujisawa is “passionate about bringing various cultures together”
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON WITH STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN If you think of the best-loved cinematic franchises of all time, the worlds of Studio […]
This music festival taps into secret talent “living behind suburban doors”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) Richard Gill AO, Australia’s most iconic music educator, believed that all of us have the potential […]
Stacey Alleaume will sing a gruesome story about cursed children
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR Halloween might be done and dusted, but the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming performance of Humperdinck’s classic Hansel and Gretel will […]
All the world’s a stage | Jason Henery, double bass
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Should you stay in Australia to build your music career, or travel overseas in search of bigger things? What even are those bigger things? […]
Sam Allchurch on the lasting influence of Richard Gill
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Sydney Chamber Choir’s Sam Allchurch has big shoes to fill. This year marked his first as its music director, following in […]