Welcome to BackStage Music
BackStage Music is an artist-run concert platform that nurtures the grassroots of creative art music in Australia. It provides a living space to encourage and enable the collaboration of musicians of diverse backgrounds, career stages and interests, in a sonic melting pot of the new.
Starting as a one off event in 2016 featuring New York based new music group y-Music alongside Sydney’s composer-performer emerging artists collective ‘The Music Box Project’ in the basement of an inner city gallery, we quickly realised that there was a demand for the kind of relaxed and musically curious experience. Since then BackStage Music have presented over 50 performances at various venues around Sydney showcasing over 100 performers and 60+ new Australian compositions.
We have been treated to performances by high-calibre international artists in the field of new music including flautist Claire Chase, cellist Ashley Bathgate, violinist Billiana Botchkova, oboist/composer Cathy Milliken and pianist Elisabeth Harnick. Artists based interstate including the Australian String Quartet have also been given a platform for the more avant-garde repertoire on their programs. The real focus of our programming has been supporting NSW artists, highlights have been the virtuoso couple William Barton (didgeridoo) and Veronique Serret (violin); Ensemble Offspring have performed each year, soprano Jane Sheldon, bassist Clayton Thomas and Marcus Whale. Find out more here.