2024 Sydney Con Jazz Festival lineup announced
Sax star Remy La Boeuf, Katie Noonan, Brekky Boy and a slew of Australian jazz legends grace the program of the one-day festival.
Sax star Remy La Boeuf, Katie Noonan, Brekky Boy and a slew of Australian jazz legends grace the program of the one-day festival.
The tenacious orchestra from Sydney’s Inner West offers an impressive eight world premieres in 2024.
Intimate recitals by international drawcards Paul Lewis and Joshua Bell, NYC's Brooklyn Rider, and ACO star Satu Vänskä. More to come.
Clarinettist Phillippa Murphy-Haste has received the $21,000 prize, which she will put towards a mentorship and the recording of a new, long-form work.
A Grammy Award-winning headliner tops the bill for the 12th year of celebration of the rich and diverse contribution of women to jazz.
Immersing audiences in the history of Sydney Harbour, with music specially created for each site, this show is everything you could want from a festival celebrating its city.
Limelight has been looking at whether the music our orchestras play genuinely reflects our society, and to what extent it ought to. Our readers have responded passionately and eloquently.
Curated by Cameron Lam, this month's playlist of Australian art music features new music from 2021 Art Music Fund recipients and the first of the ABC's Fresh Start Commissions.
Since graduating from the Tasmanian Conservatorium in 1987, reed-playing multi-instrumentalist Paul Cutlan has worked in a wide variety of styles from contemporary classical to jazz and world music. The central work on this disc, the Across the Top suite, is inspired by his work with world music ensemble MARA! on their Musica Viva tour for schools and Indiginous groups across the North of Australia in 2007. All four works on this Tall Poppies disc are influenced by folk music, filtered through composers like Bartók, Britten, Stravinsky and Sculthorpe, and melded with the ideas and practices of jazz improvisation. This never meanders, however, but is all tightly structured and highly approachable, and is, when all’s said and done, best described as chamber music of deep purpose and clarity. Improvisation and world music, when they do occur, are used to enhance Cutlan’s compositional ideas, and his sense of tonal colour and instrumental textures are indeed highly alluring. Those who are familiar with the NOISE string quartet’s recent set of improvised works on two CDs will have some idea of what to expect from their contributions. With Balkan specialists Llew and Mara Kiek, as well as one of Australia’s finest bassists, Brett Hirst,…
Sydney-based string quartet The NOISE say they began improvising for fun – avoiding the usual through-composed repertoire.