Identity and our orchestras. Pt 2: learning from the little guys.

Are our major orchestras stuck in an image crisis? Are they holding onto an identity that was handed down to them, and, like schoolyard peer pressure feel they have to try and live up to it? What if this pursuit is killing them from the inside out (or, from the outside in). Anne Midgette, a […]

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Youth engagement and future audiences.

Back in April 2019 I was asked to contribute to a piece which appeared on the Australian Major Performing Arts Group’s (AMPAG) website. In celebration of National Youth Week, I penned my responses discussing the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s student program, youth volunteer program, 30 & Under initiatives and my views on the future of audiences […]

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