I was first thrilled by music at a deep and sensual level when I was ten years old and my Dad took me to London from our suburban outpost of Teddington in Middlesex to see “Antonio and his Spanish ...

Nadia Tass has directed two plays by American playwright Annie Baker for Melbourne ensemble Red Stitch Actors Theatre – The Aliens in 2011 and the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama The Flick in 2014 – both ...

It is quite simply one of the happiest and most joyful works ever written – performers and listeners smile from beginning to end. Like Handel’s Messiah (and of course The Creation continues the same ...

The Encounter is the latest production from groundbreaking British theatre company Complicite. The mind-bending, one-man performance uses state-of-the-art binaural technology to alter your perception ...

The Helpmann Awards recognise distinguished achievement and excellence in Australia’s live performance industry with awards in 42 categories across classical and contemporary music, opera, theatre, ...

Producer Cameron Lukey first approached the City of Sydney with the idea in 2010. “After six years and several attempts, we’re finally able to share this incredible music and story with a Sydney ...

There are so many things that are totally unique about the Enigma Variations. That is one of the reasons it continues to be performed, loved by listeners, and recorded so many years after it first ...

Review: A Human Requiem (Ensemble Gombert) In this concert, featuring a world premiere by Vaughan McAlley, the expertise of the singers and their director was let down by the poor acoustic of the ...

Initially I thought cutlery might be a sonic area worth research and investigation. I’ve certainly used a lot of glass and glasses, goblets, bowls and metals in previous work, so perhaps cutlery is a ...

Matt Withers’ competition doubles down in 2018 With a larger purse and a record deal, the guitarist explains how his composition prize is going from strength to strength.

In its previous two recordings, the Melbourne Guitar Quartet chose rather unusual material, including an arrangement of Nigel Westlake’s hypnotic percussion work, Omphalo Centric Lecture, and a ...

Around the same time we were experimenting with re-pitching our actors’ voices up and down. One actress came in and she had her hair worn very tightly and was wearing a bomber jacket. She pitched her ...