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Meet Gillian Wills at the next Big Music Event: Australian Festival of

My next Big Music event and author talk is in Townsville as part of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music is from 2.00pm - 2.45pm on the 26 July at Townsville Civic Centre.

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Launch of Nightingale by Laura Elvery, published by UQP As a young woman I

As a young woman I read a biography about Florence Nightingale. I’d been privy to the Lady with the Lamp fairytale as most of us have been and was surprised to learn about...

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BrunnhAilde concert: a unique experience from More Than Opera “The

“The attention is ‘to make Wagner accessible to a wider audience.’” David Kram, Artistic Director, More Than Opera.

Last week on the 5 June I attended another worthy but very...

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Festival of Outback Opera, Opera Queensland 13-20 May, with Gillian Wills

As a music journalist I am invited to many music events, concerts and festivals. Recently, as fate would have it I’ve had a lot to do with opera and choral performance.

From...

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Manly Writers' Festival 2025: Celebrating Reading & Ideas

Proud to be a contributing author to this Festival.

Here are the details of the session I'm contributing to with...

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Big Music: view promotional video Interested in Big Music? Learn more about

Interested in Big Music? Learn more about the book in this promotional video.

Standing Ovation for QSO and Circa's Rite of Spring Queensland Symphony

Queensland Symphony Orchestra & Circa | The Rite of Spring

21 February, 2025, QPAC, Brisbane, QLD

Performing The Rite of Spring as a collaborative venture with Circa was a...

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Author Event: Ruben and Flax, Rouse Street, Tenterfield, NSW as part of
Author Talk at 11am on Easter Saturday, 19 April at Flax and Ruben, Rouse St, Tenterfield. There will be wine and cheese.

Melody, mayhem and mystery drive the pages in this...

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A Renaissance Man GILLIAN WILLS talks to Jack Liebeck, artistic director of

GILLIAN WILLS talks to Jack Liebeck, artistic director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music

Jack Liebeck, artistic director of the hugely successful nine-day Australian...

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In Conversation with Jack Liebeck artistic director of the AFCM In between

In between rehearsals, Jack Liebeck artistic director of the Australian Festival of Chamber of Music spoke to Gillian Wills on the phone about storytelling, program design, the...

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Review: After The Great Storm, Ann Dombroski, InDaily At age 40, Alice’s

At age 40, Alice’s biological clock is ticking. She longs for a baby but is stymied by crippling problems, like all her loved ones.

Her husband Daniel is serving a life sentence...

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20 March: Cedar and Pine Wine Bar Author Event hosted by The Madhatters

This was fun expertly hosted by Laura Norris of The Madhatters Bookshop in Manly, Brisbane.

Big crowd of my friends but also people I didn't know and so there were considerable...

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Author Talk Darebin Library, Preston Excited to be presenting an author

Excited to be presenting an author talk at Darebin Library from 6.30 - 8pm on 27 February, 2025

See details here.


2MBS Review of Big Music by Tricia Elgar It is not often that Australian

It is not often that Australian fiction takes us into the worlds of classical music or academia.

In Big Music, Gillian Wills invites us to explore both. Through the trials and...

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Review 24 December, 2024 Big MusicGillian WillsHawkeye Publishing

Big Music

Gillian Wills

Hawkeye Publishing (2024)

ISBN: 978-1923105287

Reviewed by Elizabeth Upshur for Reader Views (12/2024)

Written by Australian arts writer and music reviewer...

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Gillian Wills confronts the “predatory behaviour, lack of funds” in Australia’s classical music industry.

Gillian Wills’ Big Music is her debut novel — but it’s not entirely a...

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Recommendations from book launches Books@Stones, BrisbaneWe had a fun night

Books@Stones, Brisbane

We had a fun night listening to Gillian chatting about her new book Big Music. Gillian’s anecdotes & stories about her career & the industry had...

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Recommendations  About my contribution to the inaugural Sunshine Coast

About my contribution to the inaugural Sunshine Coast Hinterland Literary Festival.

Gillian Wills brought intelligence, strength and insight to the Melodies in Prose panel at the...

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Rosemary Brown claimed she channelled dead composers' music 31 October,

31 October, 2024

I began writing Big Music seven years ago.

In the last few days stories are trending about Rosemary who claimed she spoke to dead composers Mozart, Chopin and...

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