Life after uni: Tetsuya Lawson, trumpet
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]
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Celebrating the winter solstice with music, words, and mead
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year. Fittingly placed for those who’d like to avoid the season’s chill entirely, […]
The ASO doesn’t want you to applaud its next concert
BY ANGELO VALDIVIA On June 21, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will perform a matinee and evening concert called Silence with your ASO, in which it […]
Lotte Betts-Dean will sing of “mortality and sin” at Dark Mofo
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dark Mofo has grown notorious for its explorations into sex and death, and this week’s concert promises nothing less morbid. Australian mezzo […]
The Melbourne Ensemble brings chamber music to an urban winery
BY EMMA SULLIVAN Have you ever watched a symphony orchestra and wanted to get to know the different personalities on stage? Melbourne Ensemble, formed in […]
Mary Lattimore will play ambient music on 47 strings
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What even is ambient music, anyway? Some would consider it music to sink into the background; a kind of atmospheric and calming […]
How to learn from your funding rejection (and reapply to succeed)
BY TIM HANNAH Ever had an amazing idea for a project and applied for funding, only to be knocked back? Hours, days, and sometimes weeks […]
Tenzin Choegyal: “Music is life, no matter where I am”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We’re lucky we live in a country that boasts itself as being one of the most […]
Rakhi Singh and Seb Gainsborough on collaboration and musical freedom
BY MYLES OAKEY (EUROPE CORRESPONDENT) Shadowing five onstage performers, a flickering analogue film gestures a bleeding heart, which rests atop a woman’s bare chest. Layered […]
Sam Hartley talks about his stage role with Opera Queensland
BY ALISON PARIS, LEAD WRITER (CHILDREN AND EARLY LEARNING) Opera Queensland’s production of Tosca is set in the politically tense 1970s Italy. Opera singer Tosca […]