Jacqueline Collyer composes a fantasy series (while she’s still at uni)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Think you have to graduate before you can gain industry experience? Jacqueline Collyer would disagree. This emerging Tasmanian composer has teamed up […]
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Twiggy from Arcadia Winds on music education and Australian composition
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE (EDITOR) WITH LAURA BIEMMI (TRENDS EDITOR) David ‘Twiggy’ Reichelt reckons the wind quintet can be a “formidable” concoction of instruments for any composer. […]
Jeffrey Palmer and Riko Higuma release an album dedicated to beauty
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE, EDITOR It mightn’t come as a surprise to you that many of the familiar faces on the CutCommon team are also forging […]
Laura Masotto has co-founded a record label and released her first solo album
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON What do you do if there are no opportunities that fit your musical niche? Well, if you’re Laura Masotto, you simply create […]
Samuel Parry: Finding new love for concert band music
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON We last spoke to Samuel Parry about the Western Australian Charity Orchestra in our first print edition. Now, with the second edition […]
Everything you wanted to know about the Alexander Technique
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) If you’re in the music industry, chances are you’ve heard of the Alexander Technique. In recent […]
This is how the Braille music code works
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) The Braille music code was invented to empower musicians with blindness or low vision to read […]
Why world-class musicians are making the trip to Townsville
BY LAURA BIEMMI (TRENDS EDITOR) WITH RACHEL BRUERVILLE (OPINIONS EDITOR) There could only be one thing better than an extensive chamber music festival that invites […]
Melbourne’s contemporary chamber group has reimagined Radiohead
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN There seems a growing push for the classical music scene to grow past traditional biases and break new ground. Barriers […]
Music education matters, says Rachel Shaw, French horn
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 […]