EVENTS // Echoes of the Jazz Age
CONTENT COURTESY CITY RECITAL HALL City Recital Hall Presents Echoes of the Jazz Age Starring John Bell, Simon Tedeschi and Blazey Best The 1920s, or […]
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Margaret Leng Tan: “Concerts are much too serious affairs”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE I was flabbergasted — yes, flabbergasted — when Margaret Leng Tan told me she’s never headlined a show before. After all, The […]
EVENTS // 12 hours, 20 performances at Sydney’s Extended Play
CONTENT COURTESY CITY RECITAL HALL City Recital Hall has announced the Sydney debut of the “queen of the toy piano” (The New York Times) Margaret […]
The Idea of North will sing five centuries of music (in 90 minutes)
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Imagine you’re in a music history lecture where you receive your entire education through live comedy and song. That’s what Nick Begbie […]
LIVE REVIEW // Wendy goes to ZOFOMOMA
BY WENDY ZHANG ZOFOMOMA ZOFO (pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi)Musica Viva seasonCity Recital Hall, 13 May ZOFOMOMA was not just an ordinary concert. It […]
5 philosophical approaches to music, according to Goetz Richter
BY JESSIE WANG, LEAD WRITER (COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL AWARENESS) What are most people doing in the Sydney CBD at 12.30pm on a Tuesday? Surely, many […]
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 […]
LIVE REVIEW // Jessie learns about music and memory
BY JESSIE WANG Music & Memory This Sounds Like Science (ongoing series) Presented as part of National Science Week with Inspiring Australia and Sydney Science Festival City […]
Vicky Chow deconstructs the way we think about ‘new’ music
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF As a musician, it can be challenging to find a balance between preserving the traditions of classical music and wanting to […]
Gabrielle Cadenhead is setting her own poetry to music
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Remember reading about Gabrielle Cadenhead in our Rural Commuters series? The young flautist travels between Maitland and Sydney (more than two […]