Con Open Academy Autumn Term

SHORT COURSES AUTUMN TERM NOW OPEN FOR ENROLMENT! Have you had a long-time passion for music and learning? The OPEN ACADEMY SHORT COURSE AUTUMN TERM is now open for enrolment and we have so many courses to choose from! Classes covering Jazz, soul, blues, songwriting, singing, Composition, ear training, music analysis and music technology are […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Emma Pask (IWD 2021)

Approx. 7 minute 30 second read I love learning of the relationships between artists; how they collaborate, inspire each other and create opportunities for each other. For example, one of my favourite jazz pianists, child prodigy Joey Alexander was discovered on Youtube by Wynton Marsalis (of Marsalis family jazz royalty, naturally) who then gave Joey […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Jenny Eriksson (IWD 2021)

Approx. 12 minute read Artists have an inner drive to deliver their calling to the world and persuade others to appreciate the unique perspective or thing of beauty they surface, even when their pursuit is somewhat out of the ordinary or has never really been done before. Rock ’n Roll did not exist before Sister […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Gai Bryant (IWD 2021)

Approx. 7 minute read One of the wonderful things about working in the Arts is being surrounded by people who express their own interests and talents and share them with the world. It’s a dynamic creative space where dancers, musicians, circus performers, sculptors, painters, writers, impresarios, designers… find each other and invent ways to collaborate […]

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Review: Artist Profile – Melissa Mladin

Artist Profile – Melissa Mladin Review by Anthony Frater (Arts Wednesday) It’s like we are looking into the dark internal spaces of someones brain, yes we have X-ray vision. It’s an evolution: evolution and change the aim, stasis the antithesis. An evolution that has taken visual artist and painter Melissa Mladin on an exploratory journey […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Kristin Berardi (IWD 2021)

Approx. 7 minute read I first came across Kristin Berardi’s beautiful voice on her album Where or When a few years back – I’m a late comer to her music ( I know!) considering she had a dozen releases to her name before this 2015 album. I was hooked from the moment her sonic scapes […]

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Musica Viva 2021 Season

The Musica Viva 2021 Season begins with a performance that was due to take place in 2020, when Diana Doherty, the Principal Oboist of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, teams up with her fellow principal chair of the SSO, the cellist Umberto Clerici, together with his collaborators in the Streeton Trio, Emma Jardine and Benjamin Kopp. Showcasing homegrown talent is central to Musica Viva’s […]

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♀️ #IWD2021 ♀️International Women’s Day, A whole day of Women Presenters! ? ?

International Women’s Day 2021! We’re celebrating all our women voices on Monday the 8th March 2021 across programming for the whole day. On the menu: TIME PRESENTER LISTEN HERE 07:00 Athésia Jammin’ Monday 09:00 Chelsea Deeley The New Thing 10:30 Angela Stretch Arts’ Monday 12:00 Georgie Zuzak Sincopatico 13:30 Virginia Lowe A taste of Honey […]

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Shout Sister Shout: Hilary Geddes (IWD 2021)

Approx. 8 minute read One of the peculiar habits of humans is to assign gender stereotypes to genderless things, such as musical instruments. One thing that I love about Sister Rosetta Tharpe is that she was an early progenitor of electric guitar rock ‘n roll. She was rocking the socks off crowds before Chuck Berry […]

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