ANNOUNCED // Alex Turley wins the 2021 Arcadia Winds Composition Prize
CONTENT COURTESY ARCADIA WINDS Melbourne-based composer Alex Turley has been crowned the winner of the 2021 Arcadia Winds Composition Prize. Turley was chosen from a […]
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My arts career during COVID-19: Lloyd Van’t Hoff, Arcadia Winds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the entire nature of our industry has shifted — seemingly overnight — with artists forced to […]
Twiggy from Arcadia Winds on music education and Australian composition
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE (EDITOR) WITH LAURA BIEMMI (TRENDS EDITOR) David ‘Twiggy’ Reichelt reckons the wind quintet can be a “formidable” concoction of instruments for any composer. […]
Music education matters, says Rachel Shaw, French horn
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]
Composer Mark Holdsworth on his residency with a major Australian orchestra
BY LAURA BIEMMI, TRENDS EDITOR Being a composer today is a fairly tough gig. There’s nothing resembling a clear-cut pathway to success, the idea of […]
A chat with Australian composer Mark Holdsworth
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Writing music can often seem like a mystifying and intellectual process. But for some, the experience can be “uniquely […]
AYO: What’s in it for me, anyway?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Australian Youth Orchestra launches the careers of emerging performers, arts administrators, broadcasters, and writers. This is a statement that I […]
Completely smashing it with Arcadia Winds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I’m excited about Arcadia Winds. Undoubtedly one of the country’s most active young groups, it all started back in 2013 when […]
Arcadia Winds makes debut at Spotlight Series
Arcadia Winds will make its debut this December 1 at the Melbourne Recital Centre’s Spotlight Series with guest artist Peter de Jager. Arcadia Winds […]