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Image: Highlights of the Governor’s Gala Concert: Heavenly Serenade – photo by Through The Looking Glass Studio.

Now in its 34th year, this 9-day Festival of Chamber Music...

Image: Michael Collins. Photo Jack Lewis Williams

Who better than Michael Collins to light up music commissioned from Bela Bartók by America's jazz clarinet great?

What makes one...

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Gillian Wills talks to horn player Stefan Dohr at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

French horn player Stefan Dohr has been dubbed...

Image: The Andromeda Sax Quartet. Photo Andrew Rankin

Liszt vs Brahms! Reich vs Glass! AFCM brings together a selection of works by composers who disliked each other intensely.

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Image: Stefan Dohr. Photo Simon Pauly

A smart program gives Stefan Dohr the space to showcase his glorious tone, sublime phrasing and insightful interpretative vision.

Stefan...

Photo: Andromeda Saxophone Quartet. Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Photo Rob Parsons

With a nod to the rock group Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody championed works by Czech...

Photo: Joseph Havlat, Australian Festival of Chamber Music. Photo Rob Parsons

Artistic Director Jack Liebeck’s sense of humour shines through his curation. After an eloquent ...

Photo: The Australian String Quartet perform in the opening night concert of the 2025 Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville. Photo by: Rob Parsons

The Australian...

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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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...

“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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...