Howard Shore explains how he composes his fantasy worlds
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN The Lost Prince is a film for anyone who has ever been a parent or a child. The French […]
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Composer Alex Baranowski pays homage to his family in this post-WWII film about the children
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN For Alex Baranowski, The Windermere Children wasn’t an ordinary scoring project. Though the BBC/Wall to Wall production may have presented […]
Sydney musicians are banding together to help native animals in need
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE For flautist Joshua Batty, one of the most distressing impacts of this summer’s bushfire season has been “the feeling of mutual helplessness”. […]
Finding common ground: Hamish Gullick x Maxime Bibeau
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE In this new interview series, we place two musicians side by side to answer questions about their careers and performances — but […]
Sam Allchurch on the lasting influence of Richard Gill
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE The Sydney Chamber Choir’s Sam Allchurch has big shoes to fill. This year marked his first as its music director, following in […]
Music education matters, says percussionist Alison Fane
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Music education matters. Whether you first picked up an instrument at school, you’re working full-time in an orchestra, or you’re just entering […]
Did you know the Glenn Miller Orchestra is still touring, 81 years on?
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE When I first heard the Glenn Miller Orchestra was still touring 100,000 miles a year, my heart jolted: I had missed the […]
Here’s what Angelo Valdivia learnt about game soundtracks by launching his podcast
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE FOR LEVEL AND GAIN If you see Angelo Valdivia’s name pop upacross Level and Gain, it’s for good reason: this guy is a mastermind […]
Ria Andriani: “Blindness isn’t a barrier to learning music”
BY RIA ANDRIANI, AS TOLD TO STEPHANIE ESLAKE I was born in Bandung and grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia. My parents encouraged me to learn […]
Twiggy from Arcadia Winds on music education and Australian composition
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE (EDITOR) WITH LAURA BIEMMI (TRENDS EDITOR) David ‘Twiggy’ Reichelt reckons the wind quintet can be a “formidable” concoction of instruments for any composer. […]