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The new festival, which opens on International Women’s Day, takes place in a shop front at Sydney’s World Square.

March 5, 2021
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January 16, 2021
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May 1, 2020
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Review: Breaking Glass (Sydney Chamber Opera)

Tonight's online premiere of four short operas by four Australian women composers is a major achievement for Australia's most inspirational modern opera company.

April 25, 2020
Chamber, Classical Music
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Review: The Composing Women Project with Claire Chase (National Sawdust, Brooklyn)

New York welcomes a "squad" from down under as five Aussie composers and a flutist carry all before them.

October 2, 2019
Classical Music
news

Australia Council delivers $6.6 million in latest grants round

Successful applicants include the Australian Music Centre, Four Winds Festival, and the Sydney Conservatorium's Composing Women line-up for 2018/19.

January 14, 2019
Classical Music
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Review: Singles Club (Backstage Music)

A series of musical dates becomes something more profound in Backstage Music's final concert for the year.

November 23, 2018
Classical Music
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Women Composers: A Score to Settle

Women composers are wildly under-represented in Australian music across all genres but, as Rosalind Appleby discovers, a groundswell of change is gathering force.

July 4, 2018
Classical Music
news

2018 Art Music Fund recipients announced

Bree van Reyk, Connor D’Netto, Rae Howell and Julian Day are among the recipients in the Fund’s third year.

April 26, 2018
Classical Music
news

Composing Women line-up for 2018/19 announced

Peggy Polias, Bree van Reyk, Georgia Scott and Josephine Macken will work with a bevy of Australia's best and brightest as part of the programme.

December 15, 2017
Audiovisual, Classical Music, Film
Live Review

Review: Seven Stories (Ensemble Offspring, Vivid Sydney)

Music and storytelling combine in a performance that brings narrative archetypes to life.

June 4, 2017
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City Recital Hall unveils its first curated programme

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October 31, 2016
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Ensemble Offspring (MOFO)

Ensemble Offspring percussionists astound at this year's Mofo.

January 17, 2016

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