Horrible Ends
At this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music, a concert inspired by Horrible Histories will explore the demise of several composers.
At this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music, a concert inspired by Horrible Histories will explore the demise of several composers.
Yve Blake chats about her reimagining of Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare, starring a 13-year-old TV star with a cut-throat stage mum.
Samuel Cairnduff explores how political pressure, weak leadership and funding models are reshaping what Australian arts organisations dare to do.
The award-winning comedian, singer and writer discusses his debut program as Artistic Director of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
Steve Dow talks with actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison about her new play Bennelong in London.
Anne Cawrse knew little about Louis XIV when she was asked to turn an epic poem about the Sun King into a song cycle. So why did she say yes?
The multi-instrumentalist, neuroscientist, lifelong learner and self-confessed over-committer discusses his fascinating journey and belief that music can change lives.
Soon to play with the Australian World Orchestra, Linda Stuckey, Associate Principal Piccolo with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, explains why the piccolo is such a dangerous instrument.
Paolo Hooke talks to composer Alex Chilvers, pipa player Lulu Liu and harpsichordist Anthony Abouhamad about Tang Suite, a new work inspired by ancient pipa manuscripts discovered in China’s Mogao Caves.
British viola virtuoso Lawrence Power chats with Steve Dow about Isles of Light, the concert he has programmed, directs and performs in for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and why he believes there’s such a strong viola tradition in the British Isles.
A new album uses period instruments and imaginative arrangements to explore the songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan as they might have been heard in their day. Clive Paget talks with its conductor John Andrews.
This month features Mahler from Bychkov and Runnicles, Pappano’s Planets, a Beethoven project completed, and choral discoveries from a distant branch of the Bach family tree.
As a young pianist, Guy Noble played at a fair few corporate gigs and opera fundraisers. He explains why they were some of his most depressing experiences as a performer.