Meet Australia’s young songmakers: Emilia Bertolini, soprano
BY EMILIA BERTOLINI AS TOLD TO CUTCOMMON In this series, we introduce you to the participants in the 2019 Young Songmakers program, which is part […]
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Would you go to a performance all about anger?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Why do you feel angry? It’s a question that’ll elicit from each of us a very different response. For composer Rachel Lewindon, […]
Dr Aristea Mellos: “As women, we’re still fighting to be seen and heard”
BY EMMA SULLIVAN Dr Aristea Mellos understands, more than most, the power of a good education. The young Australian composer, whose music is regularly broadcast […]
Stuart Thomson: “Putting yourself out there is the hardest thing”
BY JO ST LEON One of the highlights of attending a Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra concert for me is watching its principal double bass player Stuart […]
Håkan Hardenberger plays “the half-modern music that is in danger of being forgotten”
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON AND STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you could design any concert program, what music would you include? How about “the half-modern music that is […]
Victorian Opera’s new CEO tells us about her future vision
BY ALEXANDRA MATHEW Many artists will be content with cultivating and successfully maintaining just one career in their lifetime. Not so for Elizabeth Hill-Cooper — […]
Affinity Quartet has found a venue that mixes “intimacy, adrenaline, and realness”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Musicians, how would you feel if you could feel your audiences eyes on you — so closely that you could watch their […]
This architecture firm has turned to chamber music for “technique, passion, and beauty”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you could stand music still in time, what would it look like? For some the answer would be “architecture”. Patrick Kennedy […]
The MSO’s Thomas Hutchinson is about to perform a huge concerto
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR It’s common practice for a major Australian orchestra to invite world-renowned soloists to dazzle local audiences with their interpretations of […]
Dr Tracy Westerman is calling to fight Indigenous youth suicide
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Content warning: This story contains discussion about Indigenous youth suicide. For help, call Lifeline on 131114. Concert for Life is so much […]