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Bluesfest announces first artists for 2018

September 19 - Festivals, Latest News, Music

Australia’s premier contemporary blues and roots music festival, the Byron Bay Bluesfest have announced their first round of artists for 2018. “Well here it is, the first of our announcements for Bluesfest 2018, an...

Melbourne Fringe – Shania Choir: Still The One

September 19 - Latest Reviews, Music, Performance

Slinking out of the Lithuanian Club Bar towards The Main Theatre in readiness for Still The One, I had a feeling unlike that often experienced before a Fringe show. These can often be a niche affair. Here, a line of peop...

Classical music comes to life at the Abbotsford Convent this spring

September 12 - Music, Performance

The Abbotsford Convent will come to life with classical music this spring, thanks to the return of Music in the Round on Sunday 24 September 2017. A favourite on the annual classical music calendar, this day-long program...

SF Basically Beethoven - Timo-Veikko Valve, Daniel Dodds and Kathryn Selby AM

Selby & Friends reprises popular Basically Beethoven concerts thi...

September 11 - Music, Performance

Now in its fourth year, Basically Beethoven continues Selby & Friends’ exploration of the composer’s oeuvre of chamber music with piano in a series of concerts this September. This highly anticipated annual event on ...

Composed

September 9 - Film, Music

Through the lens of professional classical musicians, Composed explores the many ways we experience and can address performance anxiety. Faced with the judgment of peers, audience, conductors, and worst of all themselves...

Assembly Operation

August 31 - Music, Performance

A sonic odyssey of an assembly line Speak Percussion return to Arts House this September with the world premiere of Assembly Operation – a work which manufactures high quality sounds by crunching and grinding low w...

Sydney International Piano Competition Winners Recital: Andrey Gugnin

August 25 - Music, Performance

Audiences will have the unique opportunity to experience the sublime musicality of Andrey Gugnin, winner of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia, as he performs a thrilling repertoire live at Rive...

Water Pushes Sand

August 24 - Latest Reviews, Music

Composer Erik Griswold has had a long association with Sichuan. Together with percussionist, Vanessa Tomlinson, he has visited the province many times to study Sichuan percussion, folk music and street songs. Water Pushe...