New Waves Podcast

Emerging music journalists and composers Lisa Cheney, Peggy Polias and collaborators interview established composers Joseph Twist, Cat Hope, Timothy Tate and Julian Day about their journeys to composing.

Composer-performer Dan Thorpe and flutist Melanie Walters' new music project comes into studio, with appearances from composers Rachel Breuerville, Leah Blankendaal, and a host of Adelaide performer-collaborators.

Composer Kate Neal and director Tamara Saulwick's new a capella music-theatre work delving into the relationships between children of all ages and our parents.

Scenes from a new opera by Eve Duncan with libretto by celebrated Australian novelist and poet David Malouf.

The light-filled chamber music of Eve Duncan, performed by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey and an outstanding collection of Melbourne musicians at the Melbourne Recital Centre.

In a nostalgic mood, New Waves listens to the chamber music of Helen Gifford, works spanning 50 years of her career, curated by harpist Jacinta Dennet for Australian National Academy of Music's 'Australian Voices' concert series.

Cathy Milliken's award-winning orchestral work, performed by soprano Jessica Aszodi and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adelaide Festival Tectonics curator Ilan Volkov.

New string quartets by five great Australian jazz composers.

A new chamber opera based on Dostoyevsky's novella by composer Jack Symonds and librettist Pierce Wilcox.

A new chamber opera based on Dostoyevsky's novella by composer Jack Symonds and librettist Pierce Wilcox.

Master musicians from Australia and South Korea meet 20 early career musicians in the isolation of the Tasmanian highlands to explore the similarities and differences of their approach to improvised music.

A live set by three of Australia's most virtuosic improvisers.

Three striking new works for percussion by composers Kate Moore, Cat Hope, and James Hullick.

Decibel ensemble present treasures from the archive - electro-acoustic chamber music from one of Perth's founding new musical voices.

More immense and immersive spatial electro-acoustic music from Perth-based composers, featuring Cat Hope, Stuart James, and program curator Steve Paraskos.

Immense and immersive - new spatial electro-acoustic music by Perth-based composers Kynan Tan, Chris Cobilis, and Dobromila Jaskot.

New music for Plexus Collective by composers Harry Sdraulig, Andrew Aronowicz and Andrzej Karalow, presented by Plexus and Melbourne Recital Centre.

New music for the unusual combination of clarinet trio and chamber choir, by composers Ed Frazier Davis and Dermot Tutty, presented by Plexus and Melbourne Recital Centre.

New chamber music by Michael Mathieson-Sandars, Lisa Cheney, Eric Wubbels, and Corrina Bonshek, performed by Brisbane ensemble Kupka's Piano.

A program of new music for piano and electronics full of electronic doubling, shadowing and transformations, performed in concert by Zubin Kanga.