Jennifer Higdon: Dance Card {Audio Story}

Grammy® and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon (our series curator) co-hosts this episode, introducing recent recordings of her chamber music plus her delightful Dance Card for orchestra. Listen here

[Readings] The Spirit And The Maiden by Muses Trio

by Alexandra Mathew Australia’s Muses Trio is unique among chamber music ensembles. Consisting of a fabulous all-female line-up – Therese Milanovic (piano), Christa Powell (violin), and Louise King (cello) – the trio’s prime purpose is to explore, share and promote...

[MusicWed] The Spirit And The Maiden

by David Barker This is the debut recording for the Muses Trio, and the performers are to be congratulated on choosing such an imaginative programme. In the past few years, I have reviewed a number of debut recordings by trios who have opted for the standard...

[Limelight] The Spirit & The Maiden

by Steve Moffatt Queensland’s all-woman Muses Trio – violinist Christa Powell, pianist Therese Milanovic and cellist Louise King – has been promoting female composers in a series of chamber concerts for four years and now they have released their self-published debut...

Muses bringing female composers to the fore {Interview}

BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Stephanie Eslake | View Original Article There’s a level of guilt – of concern – in the many of us who struggle to name a great number of female composers, and violinist Christa Powell has been no stranger to this feeling. Drawing on the “chronic...

5 Questions to Therese Milanovic from the Muses Trio {Interview}

by Anni Heino | View Original Article Therese Milanovic talks about the Muses Trio, and their new CD release The Spirit and the Maiden, consisting of works by female composers. Q: First of all, before we talk about the new CD, would you give us a potted history of the...

[Creative Futures Online] The Spirit And The Maiden

by Catherine Lawrence The Muses Trio  describe their work as ‘celebrating music by women, performed by women.’ It was an inspired idea to launch their debut CD (The Spirit and the Maiden) inside the Boggo Road Gaol as an Anywhere Festival event: celebrating music by...

Muses Trio: Cell Block Classical

by Kristanna Sutton It won't just be the ghost stories of Boggo Road Gaol giving you goosebumps and spine tingles when the Muses Trio bringing their virtuosic classical performance to the former women's cellblock. One of many unconventional performance locations for...

World premiere by Cécile Elton for 2015 season!

The Muses Trio is excited to confirm that recent DMA graduate and tango pianist / composer extraordinaire Cécile Elton has begun composing a new work for the Muses Trio, to be premiered in 2015!  Currently, the working title is "Insomnio de la cuidad, (my experiences...