"I think it’s important that art keeps being made and being put out there," says Christopher Healey, who has been working on a project with musicians from all around the country.
July 13, 2020
The Sydney-based chamber choir’s Musical Director Margaret Tesch-Muller explains why she felt it was so important to push ahead with the program in an otherwise disrupted year.
July 10, 2020
Violins of Hope is an artistic and educational project composed of instruments owned by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. Niv Ashkenazi is the first musician to record a solo album on one of them.
July 10, 2020
Piers Lane, whose new album is Limelight's Recording of the Month, explains why once recognised masterpieces can grow to be underestimated and neglected.
July 9, 2020
Flinders Quartet is to premiere a piece for string quartet, female voice and narrator, inspired by letters written to asylum seekers, which were returned to sender.
July 8, 2020
The Australian guitarist tells us about his new album with Ariel Nurhadi, his new routine during the covid-19 pandemic, and his plans for the future.
July 3, 2020
The conventional wisdom says that for the performing arts the online space is difficult, if not impossible, to effectively monetise. We speak to the musicians and presenters who are making a go of ticketed live streaming events.
July 3, 2020
Claire Edwardes, Artistic Director of Ensemble Offspring, weighs in on funding cuts, ‘unfunded excellence’, and the planned fee hike for arts and humanities degrees.
June 30, 2020
Two young mezzo-sopranos have launched a new podcast series in which they interview opera performers, among them Australian soprano Lauren Fagan. They explain how and why.
June 26, 2020
As ABC Classic releases his Concerto for Oud and Orchestra, recorded live with the Sydney Symphony, Joseph Tawadros explains his love for the instrument, and how the composition was born.
June 25, 2020
We speak to director Katt Osborne about adapting Menotti’s The Telephone for WA Opera in the time of coronavirus.
June 25, 2020
Finding his feet in his newly adopted country, the Russian composer was game for anything.
June 23, 2020