If you want to learn a new skill and are not sure where to start, AFTRS runs a broad range of two-day introductory Short Courses many at weekends. These courses, all taught by current industry professionals, will give you a thorough outline of the skills and knowledge required to follow specific career paths to help […]
Rumour has it that PJ will return to retake the chair on Dial Afrika next week, January 16 at 9am. By popular demand, humbled and excited to continue a program he started seven years ago, there’s every chance that this could be more than mere rumour. Returning from a 6 month sabbatical during which took him […]
SIMA is back at the Sound Lounge in 2019 with the ‘JAZZ NOW’ Summer Series and a wonderful ‘guitar’ special to mark the occasion. inner of the 2010 Freedman Jazz Fellowship, guitarist Ben Hauptmann leads a stripped back, fully acoustic ensemble, playing music from his two albums and a collection of new material. Winner of the […]
THE JUNGLE BOOK – THE NEXT CHAPTER A brand-new production of Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic The Jungle Book The Next Chapter is a fun-filled, energetic musical adventure that invites the audience to join in the action when Baloo the bear and Mowgli, the young orphan boy raised in the jungle by wolves meet again several years […]
We’re so proud to be a part of Barnardos Gifts for Kids as part of our Xmas Supporter Drive. And by the sounds of it they’re pretty happy with us too… ‘THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Because of YOUR help, your direct involvement with our 2018 Gifts for Kids appeal, we surpassed our goal […]
During our 2018 Xmas Radiothon all new and renewing supporters will be invited to an exclusive preview screening at The Chauvel on the 16th of January 2019 of Green Book – the true story of world-class African-American pianist Dr. Don Shirley’s concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. Award winning actors Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali […]
“He reveals the very essence of his character and soul but, like any clever composer, he leaves you wanting more.” – Cut Common Magazine Five extraordinary musicians combine their talents to delivering a passionate, uncompromising performance of the most beloved loved tango repertoire ever conceived. With the passion of South America bubbling in his blood, […]
Read More… from Orquesta La Luna @ Randwick Council’s Twilight Concerts
After a nation-wide search for the Australia’s best young classical musicians aged 30 and under, the three finalists – violinist Courtenay Cleary, percussionist Thea Rossen and clarinettist Oliver Shermacher – will compete live in concert for the title of 2018 Freedman Classical Fellow, and the career-changing $20,000 cash prize to undertake a proposed creative project. […]
Conservatorium Open Academy – Find the Music in You! Music is an extraordinary thing, it brings us joy, engages the ‘little grey cells’ just as well as any crossword and does no end of wonderous things for mental health and wellbeing. It is for everyone, young and old, experienced or novice; there is a musical […]
Hailing from Cuba via New York, Grammy-nominated pianist/composer Elio Villafranca returns to Australia to launch his latest and most ambitious project to date, Cinque. The album has just received a glowing 4.5 stars review from Downbeat Magazine with Villafranca named in the Downbeat Critic’s Poll as one of the Rising Stars of 2018. This exceptional […]
Pop-up Globe is popping up in Sydney! After performing to an astonishing 450,000 people in just two years, the world’s first full-scale temporary working replica of one of the greatest theatres in history, the second Globe, will soon pop up at The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park. It will present an epic festival of Shakespeare unlike […]
EASTSIDE RADIO PRESENTER POW WOW 18 August 2018 12:30 to 5:30pm Registration from Noon Location – Australian Film Television Radio School AFTRS at EQ The Eastside Radio Programming Committee and Board are proud to present an exceptional Presenter Workshop The Presenter POWPOW 2018 is the first conference for you, our Eastside presenters and volunteers. This event is […]