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MEDIA RELEASE: Routledge releases Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras

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MEDIA RELEASE October 20, 2025 Routledge releases Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras A landmark new book from Samuel Cairnduff; reframing how cultural institutions define leadership, purpose and public value A new book from Routledge, Harmonising Cultural Leadership in Professional Orchestras , by cultural management scholar, broadcaster and consultant Dr Samuel Cairnduff , will be released on Monday 20 October 2025 . The book interrogates the widespread yet ill-defined use of “cultural leadership” in strategic plans, policies and industry discourse. Despite its ubiquity, the term has lacked clarity and cohesion in both theory and practice. Drawing on fieldwork with twenty artistic and executive leaders, Dr Cairnduff explores how orchestras grapple with the tension between artistic tradition and civic expectation, revealing a deeper uncertainty about their purpose and place in society. At the heart of Harmonising Cultural Leadership is a new conceptual and prac...
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MEDIA RELEASE: Jayson Gillham releases Chopin: Études

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MEDIA RELEASE October 17, 2025 Jayson Gillham releases Chopin: Études   An illuminating new recording from one of Australia’s finest pianists Internationally acclaimed Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to the Etudes of Chopin: music written to take pianists to the extremes of virtuosity while enchanting listeners with their beauty, elegance and lyricism. On this landmark album, Gillham performs all 27 of these brilliant and captivating pieces, plus the stirring and passionate Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53 ‘Heroic’ . Chopin’s genius as both composer and pianist earned him the title poet of the piano : his touch brought the instrument to new dimensions of expressiveness. Before Chopin, etudes – the French term means study – were little more than exercises; in his hands, they took flight into new realms of creativity and delight. For Jayson Gillham, hailed by Gramophone as a “story-teller” and described by Limelight as “the ideal romantic”, Chopin’s ...
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