Jane Stanley talks composition and the Hildegard Project
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Subscribe to CutCommon by October 14, and you could win a free double pass to see this concert in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, […]
Women in Music
“We need to continue contributing to discussion on all areas of diversity in music” – Lisa Cheney
Catherine Likhuta: Scraps from a Madman’s Diary
BY CATHERINE LIKHUTA AND STEPHANIE ESLAKE One evening in 2006, Catherine Likhuta read Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol’s short story Diary of a Madman. Born […]
From medicine to guitar: Yunjia Liu’s journey
BY YUNJIA LIU The Melbourne guitarist, composer, singer, and amateur photographer tells us about her journey from studying medicine in Beijing to expressing herself […]
Alice Chance and AJ America talk wild women
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE What composition throughout history do you feel has represented women wildly, absurdly, accurately, or powerfully? We pose the question to two […]
Eileen Joyce: Five fun facts with Julia Hastings
After a sell-out premiere season in 2015, Melbourne classical pianist Julia Hastings returns with her original one-woman show Fame, Fortune & Lies: The Life and Music […]
Exploring Australia’s history with…beatboxing?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Let’s look back a few centuries to 1616. Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog, on his ship Eendracht, landed off the coast of […]
Women stars shine in Townsville’s AFCM
BY GILLIAN WILLS Australian Festival of Chamber Music Townsville, July 29-August 6 Stars in their own right, a quartet of women made a […]
Confronting violence against women with sound and noise
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE As an audience member at Trigger Warning, you’ll be part of a brave and confronting live performance that pushes for social […]
Muses bringing female composers to the fore
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE There’s a level of guilt – of concern – in the many of us who struggle to name a great number of female […]
Laura Karpman on women composers, Spielberg, and TV collaboration
BY CHRISTOPHER LEON American composer Laura Karpman talks about her past and present scoring projects, and the importance of raising awareness for women composers in […]