Tag Archives: Michael Sollis

Arts / Musica Viva season to empower young musos

“MUSICA Viva in Schools” is heading for another success as it announces its 2019 season, which will again take live music and educational resources to children all over Australia. According to Canberra musician Michael Sollis, […]

Arts / Canberra artists rally outside Assembly

CANBERRA’s arts community rallied in force outside the ACT Legislative Assembly at lunchtime today to make the point that, as one banner put it, “Art changes lives”. Organised by the recently-formed Canberra Arts Action Group […]

‘A fair go’ needed for artists, new Arts Action Group says

A CONCERNED group of arts community members last night set in motion the Canberra Arts Action Group, a circle designed to campaign for the ACT’s artists to be given ‘a fair go’. “Citynews” readers will […]

Unhappy artists rise up against funding cuts

ACT Arts Minister Gordon Ramsay has agreed to meet arts representatives in late January to discuss the dramatic 66 per cent drop in arts project funding revealed on Monday. During a “Town Hall-style meeting” held […]

Musica Viva in Schools – strong connections with Canberra

MUSICA VIVA In Schools has a very strong connection with Canberra. Not only is its inaugural artistic director for education, Michael Sollis, a dyed-in-the-wool Canberran, but it has just announced that two new ensembles will […]

Review / Sex, dragons and expert music!

music / “Sex and Dragons”, the Griffyn Ensemble. At CSIRO Discovery Centre, August 11 & 12. Reviewed by Clinton White

Sleeping cats, Griffyn Ensemble. Photo Peter Hislop

Review / Concert 5 CIMF: Curious cats share music and a ‘bit of ear’

Review / Canberra International Music Festival Concert 5, The Griffyn Ensemble – “Ear of the Cat”, Ainslie Arts Centre – Sunday May 1, reviewed by Ian McLean

Sollis takes up directorship with Musica Viva

CANBERRA composer, artistic director of the Griffyn Ensemble and musician, Michael Sollis, has just been announced by Musica Viva as Artistic Director of Education to Australia’s largest and most innovative school music education program. Sollis […]

Utopian venture in music

“A MAP of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing,” Oscar Wilde once said. It’s Vincent […]

Review / Underdeveloped music of the north goes west

music “Northern Lights” Griffyn Ensemble At the James O. Fairfax Theatre, NGA, May 30-31. Reviewed by Helen Musa

Arts in the city / Hub buzz hits the inner south

EVER since the release of the Loxton Report in 2011, the phrase “arts hub” has become a “buzzword” around the local art scene. News is to hand that Artsound, Bilk Gallery, Canberra Glassworks, CCAS Manuka, […]