Melbourne International Arts Festival

The Melbourne International Arts Festival is a important festival yearly on the Australian cultural calendar, Australia’s premier celebration of international performing and visual arts. First started in 1986 as the third Spoleto Festival (with Spoleto, Italy, and Charleston, USA), Melbourne Festival quickly forged an unique identity and remains the only festival in Australia to be [...]

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Gathering of the Gamelans

This is an gamelan music event held on the 17th of May 2009 from 2.00 pm to 4.30 pm at the Melbourne’s Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia. The concert was a combined performance of different gamelan groups from all around Melbourne performing gamelan music from Java and Bali, Indonesia. Gamelan music is a form [...]

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Internship oppurtunity with the International Music Council

International Music Council (IMC) is a membership organisation created in 1949 by the Director General of UNESCO as the advisory body to the agency on musical matters. It is based at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris and functions as an independent international NGO maintaining a formal associate relationship with UNESCO. IMC acts as a world expert [...]

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Opportunities and Jobs in Arts and Media Management

The Arts and Media industry is segmented into; Commercial/Non-Profit Arts and Media Corporations, Commercial/Non-Profit Theatre, Opera, Symphony Orchestras, Modern Dance and Ballet, Presenting Organizations and Performing Arts Centers, Museums, Art Galleries, Commercial/Independent Radio Stations and Television Networks, Public Broadcasting, Cable Television Systems/Programming Companies, Local-access Television Channels, Film Studios, Independent Film Companies, Talent Agents, Artist Management, [...]

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Spain by Chick Corea

Experimenting with the new website: blip.tv. Spain by Chick Corea uploaded onto blip.tv. Chick Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer. He was one of my major music influences. I was motivated by his virtuosity in jazz piano, and started learning jazz music apart from my classical training.

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Mission Impossible Music ala Gamelan from Indonesia

This is a youtube video of Misi Nggak Mungkin, a pop/rock-gamelan fusion band from Indonesia performing the mission impossible theme song with a new arrangement. They combined the ancient traditional gamelan music of Java, Indonesia, with western percussion instruments and guitars, accompanied by hilarious theatrical performances. Using the traditional gamelan to play modern musical rhythms [...]

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What is an Arts Manager?

“Arts” referring to arts in any field; music, dance, theater, fine, visual or  digital arts. Arts manager in the 1990s were usually university educated in an art form with a business degree in management or marketing, or with graduate qualification in arts administration. The most effective arts managers are those who combine a sensitivity to [...]

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Introducing everyone to an interesting Comtemporary Classical Group “Eighth Blackbirds”

The Eighth Blackbird is a group of highly skilled contemporary classical music performers with degrees in music performance from a highly selective Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Northwestern University. Described by The New Yorker as “friendly, unpretentious, idealistic and highly skilled,” the Grammy Award-winning eighth blackbird promises its ever-increasing audiences [...]

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Jason Mraz LIVE at Melbourne Festival Hall Part 4

Jason Mraz & special guest Bushwalla Live in Melbourne on the 21st of April at Melbourne Festival Hall.

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Jason Mraz LIVE at Melbourne Festival Hall Part 3

Jason Mraz Live in Melbourne Festival Hall on 21st April 2009. “I’m Yours” is the first single released by Jason Mraz from his third studio album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The song was originally released on a limited edition EP called Extra Credit as a demo in 2005 to promote his second [...]

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