A chat with Australian composer Mark Holdsworth
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Writing music can often seem like a mystifying and intellectual process. But for some, the experience can be “uniquely […]
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Flora Cawte has been to ALL the Dots+Loops shows
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A loyal CutCommon reader, you might know that we’ve covered Dots+Loops a fair bit in the past. After all, the Queensland […]
James Beck is an actual powerhouse of music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Some might shy away from the challenge of taking on multiple roles in a production. After all, who could possibly build […]
Did you know The Handmaid’s Tale is an opera?
BY JASMINE MIDDLETON I’ll let you in on a not-so-little secret: I’m a fan of The Handmaid’s Tale. After devouring the powerful, feminist, and […]
Ernie Gruner: “I’d like to inspire other string players”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Ernie Gruner plays the violin. Ernie Gruner also likes playing whatever he likes on the violin. And he’s established an ensemble […]
Lucy Sugerman on performance anxiety, self-promotion, and orchestral music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you watched the 2017 season of The Voice Australia, you’d have seen one young performer working hard to make her way to […]
Here’s what Emma Morrison is learning as an AYO Chamber Player
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When Emma Morrison was at school, she thought the bassoon could be fun – its “deep resonant sound and quirky nature” […]
Holly Harrison talks us through her music for Spectral Tech
BY HOLLY HARRISON AS TOLD TO STEPHANIE ESLAKE This month, we introduce you to the three Australian composers developing new works with Ensemble Offspring […]
WTF?! Why do we call everything “classical”?
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 […]
Zoltan Fecso creates mesmerising new music through “pointillism”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Have you heard of pointillism? It’s the awe-inspiring technique with which painters create large works based on thousands, perhaps millions, of tiny dots […]