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 […]
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Writer-musicians bring the latest from Australia’s classical and new music scene
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 […]
Andrew Groch: “The age of the dictatorial conductor is dead”
BY ZOE DOUGLAS-KINGHORN, LEAD WRITER I suspect Andrew Groch may be a time lord. He hasn’t run off to join the circus, but damn, is […]
All the world’s a stage | Caleb Wong, cello
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? […]
Adam Tan: From “awful student” to YouTube star and festival founder
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON When Adam Tan first picked up a percussion instrument back in high school, he was “an awful student”. “My practice ethic was […]
Andrea Haines: Be kind, ask for advice, and love your art
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Australian National Academy of Music is in for a treat this June, as globally loved British vocal ensemble VOCES8 gets ready […]
Herdís Stefánsdóttir scored a film while pregnant and says it was “awesome!”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In her last trimester of pregnancy, Herdís Stefánsdóttir was exhausted. She was having trouble walking. She was feeling emotional. Oh, and she […]
Andrew Rumsey on “the most honest a performer can be”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you ever found yourself completely obsessed with a composer, and felt like you wanted to share their music with people all […]