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Nov 13, 2024 | 
artshub.com.au | Gillian Wills
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is the famous opening line from Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. In her compassionate, engaging, readable debut novel The Truth About my Daughter, author and GP Jo Skinner reveals the actions, outcomes, betrayals and secrets of the memorably dysfunctional Steinbauer family through the weary yet discerning eyes of Fin (Josefine), the eldest daughter.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
australianstage.com.au | Gillian Wills
JCNYCC was established by John Curro in 1976 to promote the development of exceptional young Australian string players. Past winners have included Richard Tognetti, Ray Chen, Zoe Black, Emily Sun and Anne Harvey. What makes a great soloist? Maybe an interpretative imagination, strong communication, technical brilliance harnessed to expressive purpose, the ability to work with a conductor and the confidence to slice through the orchestra as a soloist yet also know when to drop back.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
australianstage.com.au | Gillian Wills
Musical advocacy is becoming an international trend. Australia has the fourth worst record worldwide for deforestation and composer Ross Edwards’ Vespers for Mother Earth, first performed this year, was written as a response to our ecological crisis. Similarly, John Adams’ trilogy ‘Become River’ is an exploration of this American conductor and composer’s profound connection to nature and the world’s changing climate.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Gillian Wills
It’s Brisbane Festival so let’s get the party started. And there is no better way to do that than with Straight From The Strait. The festival officially opens Friday night with Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak show, but you need something to warm everyone up and this collaboration between Opera Queensland, Yumpla Nerkep Foundation and QPAC, in association with Brisbane Festival, is a joyful way to do that. Just to confirm, though, this is not an opera.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Gillian Wills |Cameron Pegg
Clara Fable grew up in Brisbane but she left at the age of 20, with one reason being the heat. Which is a tad ironic considering her act which, shall we say, is smoking hot. Fable is a songstress and fire-breathing queen and one of the stars of Limbo – The Return, the latest iteration of one of production house Strut & Fret’s most popular shows, which previews from August 29 as part of Brisbane Festival.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Nance Haxton |Gillian Wills |Cameron Pegg
Brisbane Festival is about to showcase the biggest Indigenous line-up in the festival’s history. More than 180 First Nations creators and performers are taking part in a two-week program, the largest involvement of First Nations artists in the festival. For multidisciplinary storyteller and performer Ghenoa Gela it is immensely significant that her Torres Strait Islander heritage is to be celebrated at Brisbane Festival in two show, Straight From The Strait and GURR ERA OP.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Brooke Ferguson |Gillian Wills |Jane Llewellyn
Nine artists had the opportunity to present to a captivated audience last Thursday at the annual Slide Night, hosted by Luke Wilcox and this year taking over The Lab space at SALA’s new Light Square hub ILA. Each presentation consisted of 20, 20-second slides, which the artists used as their backdrop in a storytelling format known as PechaKucha. The strict time parameters led to a diverse range of innovative responses.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Gillian Wills |Cameron Pegg |Genevieve Meegan
Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra Camerata last week won the Queensland State Luminary Award at the APRA Art Music Awards. Each year the Art Music Awards celebrate outstanding artists and works in Australian art music and sound art. Co-presented by APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre, it’s a well-deserved gong for Camerata. This much-loved outfit has made a praiseworthy contribution to Queensland’s urban and regional communities while also significantly championing Australian music.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | PHIL BROWN |Cameron Pegg |Gillian Wills |Vicki Englund
How would celebrated Australian composer Sir Jonathan Mills sum up his world-premiere opera adapted from the award-winning Australian novel Eucalyptus? “It’s Rapunzel meets Pelléas and Mélisande meets Hansel and Gretel meets Scheherazade,” Mills says.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Gillian Wills |Jane Llewellyn |PHIL BROWN
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