Sonya Lifschitz shines the spotlight on women who have shaped our world
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dr Sonya Lifschitz wants you to listen to women who have changed the world. She wants you to see their faces, hear […]
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These percussionists will play hairdryers and houseplants in the Melbourne Recital Centre
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Musicians are often cursed with finding rhythm and pitch in every sound. From car horns to clocks — or in the case […]
Could the Art Music Fund help you “compose during business hours”?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund is now open to Australia and New Zealand composers aiming to express their “innovation, compositional craft, […]
Jennifer Hankin will “bring more visibility to disabled realities” in new ABC commission
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Jennifer Hankin has played flute for close to 20 years. And for many of those years, she has needed to advocate for […]
Musicians are enriching the lives of staff and patients at the Royal Hobart Hospital
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Those who have spent time in hospital settings may be familiar with feelings of stress, vulnerability, and isolation. And in Tasmania, healthcare […]
Morgan Carter “literally fell to the floor” when they received $20k to support their music education
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When soprano Morgan Carter was accepted into the Royal Northern College of Music, they were looking straight down the barrel of a […]
The story of Australia’s first female mechanic will be brought to life on bass
BY EMMA SULLIVAN As the principal bassist of Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, I am usually found at the back of the ensemble, providing the foundation to […]
How Spinifex Gum gives “Indigenous women and girls a voice, a sense of power and some agency”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER This NAIDOC Week, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra will bring a unique live music event to Hamer Hall. MSO + Spinifex […]
Drift into this beautiful sanctuary of new Australian music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE “When you do an improvisation with someone, you immediately know whether you’re going to be friends,” Mindy Meng Wang says. “It just […]
Four decades on, Dulcie Holland’s “bloody good” piece for piano and strings will finally be heard
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Dulcie Holland’s Concertino for Piano and Strings — “pure pleasure for players and listeners”, as the composer described it — was written […]