BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Australian percussionist Kaylie Melville offers a fun teaser for her upcoming Melbourne Recital Centre event: “Our performance begins before you even arrive […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE If you’ve ever tutored music, you’ll know the lesson itself is only the beginning. There’s scheduling (and rescheduling), invoicing (and chasing invoices), […]
BY CUTCOMMON You might’ve had a big month last April, especially if you rocked up to the Melbourne Recital Centre’s New Music Days festival. But […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE A portable timber cube seats 52 audience members, and they’re positioned in circles around a tiny stage. A string quartet is stationed […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Alison Wormell is a British-Australian bassoonist, film producer, and outdoor enthusiast who uses the pronoun ‘they’. All of these facts are relevant […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE How often do you get the chance to be there at the very beginning of a festival? The launch of a fresh […]
BY JEFFREY CHARLES PALMER, UNITED STATES CORRESPONDENT Jupiter EnsemblePresented by Princeton University ConcertsRichardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 30 March I recently […]
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Many musicians will train hard — really hard — on their chosen instrument. Then, there’s that second instrument. The one that might […]
BY JO ST LEON, LEAD STORYTELLER Tan Dun’s ‘Wolf Totem’Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra featuring Stuart Thomson (double bass), Eivind Aadland (conductor)Federation Concert Hall, 16 March Jo […]
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER (NSW) KRONOS Five DecadesKronos QuartetSydney Opera House, 14 March It is rare to attend a string quartet concert in which […]
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