CRITICISM // What would a feminist make of Lucia di Lammermoor?
BY SYLVIE WOODS Disclaimer: The opinions reflected in this review are those of the writer and not necessarily the publication. Trigger warning: This review contains […]
Women in Music
“We need to continue contributing to discussion on all areas of diversity in music” – Lisa Cheney
Challenging “a stereotype of feminine helplessness”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Content warning: This interview contains discussion of sexual assault and rape. The dominant man. The helpless woman. When it comes to the […]
“Too fat” to sing opera?
ANONYMOUS Editor’s note: This story was written by an emerging opera singer in Australia. She has chosen to publish anonymously to avoid judgement she feels […]
Cat Hope talks gender, sound art, and the work of Éliane Radigue
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you are looking to explore French electronic music created in the past century, the name Éliane Radigue certainly springs to […]
Actually, there are THOUSANDS of female composers
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE, COMPOSER So you think there are no female composers? Actually, there are thousands of female composers. More than 6000, in fact, across 70 countries. […]
7 conductors you should know about
BY ZOE DOUGLAS-KINGHORN Meet the women who are breaking new ground in the Australian conducting scene: the first ever female music director of an Aussie orchestra, the […]
Writing music for my newborn son
BY NAT BARTSCH, COMPOSER I’ve always felt that I don’t easily ‘fit’ in the music industry. For starters, I’m a female pianist and composer who […]
Gemma Peacocke composes the poems of oppressed women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Your eyes aren’t eyes, They’re bees. I can find no cure For their sting. This is one of the folk poems […]
An interview with composer Liza Lim
BY LAURA BIEMMI Composer Liza Lim has received the Don Banks Award Award to recognise her outstanding contribution to the Australian and international music […]
The women facing “the wolf that lives inside us”
BY RACHEL BRUERVILLE A girl walks. She walks alone at night. When she ran, the world watched. What big eyes they have. Our Daughters […]