5 tips that help me tolerate my own playing
BY YELIAN HE AS TOLD TO CUTCOMMON Yelian He is nicknamed the “Kung Fu Cellist” after his prowess in the Chinese martial art Wing Chun. […]
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This uni orchestra is one of the oldest societies on campus
BY MARK BOSCH I’ve been a violinist in the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra since the beginning of 2017, and our upcoming final concert for […]
We should still respect film music as art
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Are you one of those classical music lovers who thinks film music isn’t “real” music? Are you too high-brow to enjoy […]
Life as a young and successful Australian pianist
BY CELINE CHONG, LEAD WRITER (QLD) With a string of major prizes to his name, it’s no surprise that Vietnamese-born Australian pianist Hoang Pham […]
What should an artist make of the Sydney Opera House protests?
BY MARK BOSCH One of the stranger protests I’ve been to – Tuesday night’s “counter-projection event” at the Sydney Opera House – felt nevertheless appropriate […]
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 […]
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 […]