Review: The Last Mile (Canberra International Music Festival)
The final concert of the 2022 Canberra International Music Festival was a joyous, humours and heartfelt affair.
The final concert of the 2022 Canberra International Music Festival was a joyous, humours and heartfelt affair.
An amazing coupling of Katy Abbott and Frederic Rzewski transported its audience to new worlds of possibilities within political commentary, demolishing the old adage that ‘music is beyond politics’.
The violinist discusses his new group’s origins, the repertoire they most enjoy, their experience at this year's Canberra International Music Festival, and whether a composer can recreate a painting through music.
The Canberra Festival celebrates the life of Australian composer and pioneer in electronic and computer music Martin Wesley-Smith with a concert in two halves.
This wide-ranging program perfectly reflects Canberra Festival's overarching theme, even if one did have to work to see the links.
The experience of While You Sleep is total, inescapable. It is mesmerising, perplexing, captivating and frustrating, just like a dream.
Australia's first-ever period-instrument presentation of The Creation reveals the fresh vitality and range of colours in Haydn’s score.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
Roland Peelman explores the genesis of Haydn’s Creation, from the high-minded philosophy of The Enlightenment to the very real motivation of a large commission!
My most ambitious collaboration yet with visual artist Sal Cooper is an aural and visual excursion into the musical fugue.
Our April features explore the new Cobar Sound Chapel, a documentary about luthier Harry Vatiliotis's last violin, musical arrangements in the past and today, and the joy of walking and its link to creativity.
Roland Peelman explores the history and the joy of walking, and looks at whether it has a direct link to creativity.
With the theme of 'Pole to Pole', the festival celebrates the journeys and travels humans have undertaken for millennia, and what we have learned and discovered along the way.