WTF?! Performing all your own works in one concert
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 […]
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University
LIVE REVIEW // Bridget sees Stuart Skelton in Peter Grimes
BY BRIDGET O’BRIEN Peter Grimes Opera Queensland with Rory Macdonald (conductor), Stuart Skelton (heldentenor), and special guests Brisbane Festival QPAC, 22 September What’d you […]
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 […]
Behind the scenes of Australia’s new opera Dry River Run
BY DR HOLLY CHAMPION This month, I sat down to chat with emerging mezzo-soprano Xenia Puskarz-Thomas and baritone Oliver Boyd. Xenia and Oliver are […]
Sunga Lee: “It’s valuable to support young local musicians”
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Tone. Technical reliability. Stamina. All things you’d want to hear about your playing, right? Indeed, this was the praise Sunga Lee […]
(Literally) Live Reviews: Celine goes to Converge
Welcome to our very first (Literally) Live Review – our new video review series that aims to reshape the way we think about arts criticism […]
When minds, industries, and ideas converge
BY CELINE CHONG, 2017 CUTCOMMON YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR Dance and music. Art forms that, without a doubt, go hand-in-hand. For Queensland Conservatorium […]
Getting to know opera composer Jonathan Dove
BY LOUISE CROSSEN From full-scale operas to chamber operas, operas for TV to music for community choirs, Jonathan Dove has done it all. The […]
Con Fuoco | Oscar Wong, piano
Welcome to Con Fuoco, CutCommon’s interview series with emerging musicians in Australia. Oscar Shoyo Wong was a full music scholarship recipient at Emmanuel College […]
Johnny van Gend: What I look for in a mentor
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Johnny van Gend started violin lessons as a five-year-old kid growing up in Toowoomba. Seven years later, he achieved both AMusA […]