Julia Messenger Quintet
Julia Messenger has a jazz style all of her own, her recent performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre felt like a turning of the tide – with a coolness and as some remarked ‘a bent to the avant-garde’, she showed...
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Taikoz 20: Land-Sea-Sky-Home
Australia’s leading taiko drumming ensemble Taikoz will present a very special concert, Taikoz 20: Land-Sea-Sky-Home in celebration of an incredible 20 years of music making and performance at Sydney’s City Recital...
Melbourne Festival – A Requiem For Cambodia: Bangsokol
Australians might know a little of the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. But what do we know of the survivors, and what followed? We had a glimpse of this in A Requiem For Cambodia: Bangsokol, intended ...
ABC wins big at the 2017 ARIA Awards
ABC Classics & Jazz were announced winners of the 2017 ARIA Awards for Best Classical, Best Jazz, Best Original Soundtrack and Best Comedy albums at a ceremony this morning at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Guit...
Melbourne Festival – Voyage of Time
The rising sound of an orchestra tuning is always an engaging one, and can often be a small-yet-magnificent moment before the sonic finery to come. Here, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, along with their Chorus, does th...
Michael Ball & Alfie Boe – Together
Musical theatre legends Michael Ball and Alfie Boe have arrived in Australia to begin the national tour of their concert Together – starting in Brisbane tonight (Thursday 5 October), before heading to Melbourne, Sy...
Australian Art Orchestra: Diomira
One of Australia’s leading contemporary music ensembles, the Australian Art Orchestra, will give the world premiere performance of Diomira at The Substation, Newport on Saturday 7 October as part of the 2017 Melbourne Fe...
Fred Smith: Great
Renowned Australian singer-songwriter Fred Smith’s new album Great is a rollicking hayride through American history, politics and pathologies. One of the few Australian songwriters who has both a US Marine Corps me...