Features
Eminent clarinettist Michael Collins on highs, lows and becoming choosier.
by Clive Paget
Lisa Simone discusses her mother’s legacy, and carving her own career.
by John Shand
On the centenary of his death, we celebrate classical oddball Erik Satie.
by Albert Ehrnrooth
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Soundings
Interview
Ahead of his Australian tour, British organist James O’Donnell tells us how he keeps the repertoire fresh.
by Jansson J. Antmann
On the Record
This month features a double helping of Ravel, contemporary music by two leading Brits, the latest from the Takács Quartet and Benjamin Grosvenor, plus a Ponchielli rarity.
by Clive Paget
Cutting Edge
Mat Schulz, the Australian co-Artistic Director of Kraków’s Unsound festival, chats with us about the history of the event and its 2025 program at Illuminate Adelaide.
by Maddy Briggs
Theatre
La Boite Artistic Director Courtney Stewart tells us about the company’s centenary season.
by Jo Litson
Theatre
The lead character in Kimberly Akimbo is 16 going on 70 due to a rare ageing disease. We talk to director Mitchell Butel and Marina Prior who plays Kimberly.
by Jo Litson
Opera
US-based Australian soprano and director Miriam Gordon-Stewart tells us about her new documentary YAPs, which follows five aspiring young opera singers.
by Jo Litson
Books
★★★★ Auker dives in to discover what makes The Turn of the Screw so cinematic.
by Will Yeoman
Film
★★★½ It’s hard not to fall for Naomi Watts and canine actor Bing in this friendlier version of the bestselling novel.
by Jason Blake
In the Limelight
Coda
Playing Up
Raised in Western Australia and based in Belgium, where she teaches at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, Nicola Boud explains the many differences between historical and modern clarinets, as she prepares to tour for Musica Viva Australia.
World Premiere
Asked by his neighbour to compose a string quartet based on the famous Irish song Mná na hÉireann, Andrew Ford explains how he was given permission to write his “free ramble”, which has its premiere at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
Guy Noble's Soapbox
This month, an e-scooter running out of battery causes Guy Noble to ponder the dystopian horrors that await if electricity and the Internet fail.
5 Questions For
We ask the Sydney-born, Copenhagen-based cellist about his connection with the Australian World Orchestra and his new composition for the 2025 ANAM Set.
My Music
ABC Classic’s Evenings presenter explains how his musical journey led him from piano and French horn to the national airwaves, and why he’s co-building a different kind of orchestra in Geelong.
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