Canberra musicians are fighting to save their education
BY LILY BRYANT In 2014, I auditioned at the Australian National University School of Music for its prestigious H Course. Each week, my peers […]
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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 […]
Composer Deborah Cheetham AO explains her new war requiem
BY DEBORAH CHEETHAM AO In this blog, Yorta Yorta composer, soprano, and Short Black Opera artistic director Deborah Cheetham AO writes about the creation of […]
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 […]
Mad Music is a mental “health forum that people actually want to go to”
BY JESSIE WANG When we hear the term ‘classical music’, most of us have an image of a concert hall filled with a quiet […]
Just what do we talk about when we talk about investment in the arts?
BY MARK BOSCH Any nuanced view will take into account what it means to invest in the arts well, which is undoubtedly a matter of degree […]
Stephanie Jones is breaking the stigma surrounding classical guitar
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Guitar is an instrument we often associate with genres such as rock and folk. To Stephanie Jones, explaining to others that […]
This new conservatorium wants to keep its students safe
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE, EDITOR The Hedberg is a $96 million academic and cultural hub is set to launch in 2019. And this University of Tasmania […]
From war-torn childhood to 4 million albums sold
BY CELINE CHONG, LEAD WRITER (QLD) Oh, so you’re a pianist. What repertoire do you play? For Croatian pianist Maksim Mrvica, one of the […]
Could we be approaching lieder all wrong?
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN There is so much music that relies on the excavation of committed musicians to help it bubble back to the surface […]