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 […]
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
WTF?! When your whole group plays a Guadagnini
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]