Wollongong Conservatorium celebrates its 50th birthday
Composers Matthew Hindson and Novak Manojlovic discuss how growing up in Wollongong has shaped their music, and describe their new works, commissioned for WollCon's anniversary.
Maddy Briggs is a writer, sound designer and composer who works across theatre, screen, dance and video art. Her work has been featured in VIVID Sydney, MUSLAB’s International Electroacoustic Music Festival, SBS on Demand on BBC Music 6. She was also a 2024 Media Fellow with Bang On a Can.
Composers Matthew Hindson and Novak Manojlovic discuss how growing up in Wollongong has shaped their music, and describe their new works, commissioned for WollCon's anniversary.
The Sydney venue’s 2023 season launches its Australian-first immersive sound system with a lineup featuring Peaches, Deborah Cheetham, Paul Grabowsky, Emma Donovan and Krautrock legend Michael Rother.
Flautist Eliza Shephard walks away with $30,000 in prizes, two professional engagements, and becomes the ABC Classical Artist in Residence.
Announcing a new postgraduate program for 2023, Words, Text, Voices, Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music will halt its successful Composing Women program for the foreseeable future.
The Director of Chamber Music Adelaide tells us why the concerts in this weekend festival are free and why accessible chamber music is so important to her.
The Orchestra celebrates its 75th anniversary with guest artists both new and returning, a number of works by Australian composers, and a new early-evening series.
The study reveals that audience attendance has yet to fully recover from the pandemic and points to the rising cost of living as the new primary barrier.
Five world premiere commissions by composers including Ross Edwards, Caroline Shaw and Brenda Gifford, make up a diverse season, with living composers contributing 70% of the music.
Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra showcases a balanced program, studded with stellar guest performers, and invites its audience to stay back for post-show small talk.
Fisch's tenure will now run until 2025, making him the longest-serving Principal Conductor in the history of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
With film scores including Babe, Paper Planes and Blueback, the composer will be recognised at the 2022 Screen Music Awards, to be held later this month.
The UNSW ensemble offers a season lit up by Bach, Ravel, Westlake and Edwards, with guest performers that loom large in NSW and internationally.
“We’re bringing space travel, balloons, shepherds, ninjas, great love, cups of tea, ghosts, cowboys, samosas, mysteries.... and theatre magic," says AD Lee Lewis of next year's season.