WTF?! Piano accompaniment vs playing with orchestra
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to our series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring […]
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Danai and Ben want you to come over, play music and drink wine
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) I’m sure we all know someone who used to play music every day, but now […]
Making music safe for people with sensory needs
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Update 8 July 2019: The next Sensory Concert will take place on 20 July at the Fullarton Park Community Centre. The concert […]
Roger Young tells us about this sold-out debut album launch
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Ever wondered how to sell out your debut album launch? Ask Roger Young. The jazz player and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra violinist […]
Kezia Yap: “You get out of a workshop what you put into it”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In 2016, Kezia Yap took part in a workshop that would see her develop a composition under some of the strongest […]
Did Benett Tsai, 15, grow up as a child prodigy?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Cellist Benett Tsai started his training when he was just 5 years old. But try telling him he’s a child prodigy. He’ll […]
A one-man show (about white-middle-class-man privilege)
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON Just in time for Halloween, Ben Grant is set to premiere his unique “electrOpera” The Rug tackling an especially frightening subject: […]
Emerging composers, schools, and regional musicians to benefit from Flinders in 2019
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE It takes a special quartet indeed to create opportunities for those outside its four players. Flinders Quartet has announced its 2019 […]
“Remembering will help foster peace in the future”
BY ARCKO SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE “Til we meet again, if not in this world, in the next.” This is how a young soldier, a Bendigo […]
Australia’s best-loved music educator Richard Gill has died
Editor’s note, 28 October 2018: Australia’s leading music education advocate Richard Gill AO passed away in his home on Sunday. On Saturday, more than 70 […]