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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...

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

See details here.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Another launch on the 24 October at Books@Stones.

Nick Kirkup a young artist from Opera Queensland will be singing an aria by way of an introduction followed by a question and...

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Launch of Big Music

Francesco Celata Principal Clarinetist of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will be performing an extract from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.

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Pure Dynamite Alondra de la Parra: read here.

The Curse of the Gothic Symphony: read here.

Muck-Rack: read here.

A Selection of articles and reviews: read here.

Big Music

Reviewed by Jo Skinner

I was fortunate enough to attend the grand launch of Big Music at Avid Reader in Brisbane recently. The audience were entertained by a classical...