Margaret Leng Tan: “Concerts are much too serious affairs”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I was flabbergasted — yes, flabbergasted — when Margaret Leng Tan told me she’s never headlined a show before. After all, The […]
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Invictus Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Did you catch our interview with Aidan Filshie of the Kalon Quartet? Aidan talked us through the experience of being selected to […]
Life after uni: Tim Munro, flute
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A music degree can be an intense – and intensely rewarding – life experience. It doesn’t matter how old we are, or […]
James Rushford is using glossing to “illuminate something new about historical music”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Feeling “ecstatic” would be a pretty reasonable response to the idea of a three-day arts festival celebrating contemporary performance, right? The Supersense […]
Kalon Quartet tells us what it was like to be Mimir Emerging Artists
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Aidan Filshie, “recording sucks”. Capturing your performance to perfection, on video, in a single take, is going to be tough […]
All the world’s a stage | Rain Liu, violin
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? […]
It’s time to end Yellowface in the performing arts
BY SYLVIE WOODS, LEAD WRITER (NSW) Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker may be one of the world’s best-loved ballets. But in 2019, derogatory racial stereotyping, and use […]
Moorambilla Voices brings music to children of “this magnificent country”
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) We all know that kids in regional Australia do not have access to the same musical […]
Music education matters, says Leigh Harrold, piano
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 […]
Kiri Zakinthinos brings diverse art music into the suburbs of Western Sydney
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When Kiri Zakinthinos was a student at the University of New South Wales, it wasn’t the Western classical music she was most […]