EVENTS // Tan Dun conducts his newest work with MSO
CONTENT COURTESY MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA For more than a thousand years, pilgrims in China left marks of their passing in the Mogao Caves, also […]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
WTF?! How should I look after my reeds?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to our series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring […]
WTF?! (Successful) long-distance collaboration
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Welcome to our series, What the Fact?! Throughout 2018, we’re teaming up with talent at the Australian National Academy of Music to bring […]
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 […]
Con Fuoco | Aidan Gabriels, French horn
Welcome to Con Fuoco, our interview series with emerging artists in Australia. Perth-born Aidan Gabriels comes from a family of four, all of whom […]
Understanding Berlioz, with mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE According to Sasha Cooke, “Berlioz is just unlike anything else”. “The colour, harmony, melody in his music are beautiful, emotional and […]
7 conductors you should know about
BY ZOE DOUGLAS-KINGHORN Meet the women who are breaking new ground in the Australian conducting scene: the first ever female music director of an Aussie orchestra, the […]
Valuing young players in the orchestra
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a cellist during performance? It gets pretty complicated. Eliza Sdraulig says her […]
This young conductor is leading our future
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE WITH CELINE CHONG When it comes to gaining experience in an orchestra, Tianyi Lu reckons it’s “kind of a chicken and […]
EVENTS // MSO side-by-side with young musos
CONTENT COURTESY MSO The MSO will team up with the young stars of the Australian music scene when they present the West Side Story suite, and more in […]