How Danny Lucin’s mixed ensemble is “pioneering early brass in Australia”
BY MIRANDA ILCHEF, LEAD WRITER Danny Lucin has a particularly strong passion for the cornetto (the historical wind instrument rather than the ice cream). Considered […]
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Why we must value early music
BY JANE DOWNER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF AUSTRAL HARMONY Austral Harmony principally performs music from the European high baroque (early- to mid-1700s). We take an […]
Nine things you should know about early music performance
BY PAUL BALLAM-CROSS, RUNNER-UP IN THE 2016 YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION Fashions change in classical music, as in everything. In the Renaissance, […]
Camerata Antica commissions top Australian composers
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Monteverdi and Cazzati were composing their masterpieces long before the saxophone was born. But according to early music ensemble Camerata Antica, […]
Return to the Renaissance: Trevelyan-Jones & the Giovanni Consort
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The young singers of Perth’s Giovanni Consort will return to the Renaissance this May in their first concert of the year, […]