ANAM’s Head of Percussion explains how the instruments were chosen for a concert featuring music by Mozart and Ligeti.
March 25, 2024
After his Lorenzo Guadagnini was stolen in 2003, cellist Alban Gerhardt bought a beaten-up 1710 Matteo Goffriller – a challenging instrument to play because it’s so large.
February 19, 2024
Virtuoso player Anoushka Shankar reflects on her relationship with the sitar ahead of her Sydney Festival concerts.
December 22, 2023
Ysolt Clark plays the instrument Wagner invented, one with "a weird, unearthly sound".
November 20, 2023
Dong Ma is a virtuoso on the two-string erhu. Now based in Melbourne, he performs JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations with the Flinders Quartet.
October 23, 2023
Born in America and based in Sydney, Riley Lee was the first non-Japanese person to attain the rank of Grand Master of the Japanese bamboo flute.
September 25, 2023
Théotime Langlois de Swarte didn’t choose the life of a Baroque violinist; it chose him. He discusses the 1665 Jacob Stainer violin he plays.
August 21, 2023
Heather Shannon's new work, Strange Roses, brings synthesizer and orchestra into harmony one moment and into stark opposition the next.
July 24, 2023
Matthew Manchester explains that there is still much to learn about an instrument once likened to a “choice castrato”.
April 24, 2023
Karin Schaupp was born to play the guitar. She explains why the instrument always brings her comfort, and her plan to affirm its chamber music credentials.
February 20, 2023
William Barton explains what drew him to the instrument, and how performing in classical concerts helps encourage reconciliation.
December 23, 2022
Professional pianist and music teacher, Andrew Rumsey, describes how he was inspired to import Hermann Veeh’s bespoke, portable harp to Australia after seeing his brother, who has Down syndrome, fall in love with the chance discovery.
November 21, 2022