Gillian Wills

Gillian Wills is an author and arts journalist who has published with ArtsHub, The Australian, Courier Mail, Limelight, Inreview, Australian Book Review and Griffith Review. Her memoir Elvis and Me: how a weary musician and a broken racehorse rescue each other, Finch Publishing was released in Australia, Canada, America, New Zealand and United Kingdom in 2016. Her debut novel Big Music, Hawkeye Publishing was released on the 1 October, 2024.

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Cosi

There are daring moments and directorial surprises in David Berthold's Cosi.

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QSO with Lola Astanova

Pianist Lola Astanova collaborates and charms Queensland Symphony Orchestra's audience.

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When Time Stops

Choreographed by Natalie Weir, the latest work by Expressions Dance Company explores the liminal chasm between life and death.

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Abandon

This enthralling Dancenorth collaboration with Opera Queensland is deserving of another showing.

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Australian Festival of Chamber Music

Held in Townsville, the largest chamber music festival in the southern hemisphere is an example of superior cultural tourism.

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My Country, I still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia

A massive and provocative exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait art.

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Giselle

Ai-Gul Gaisina’s production was first staged by Houston Ballet in only 2011, yet came across as way too yesteryear.

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Bolshoi Ballet – The Bright Stream

Alexandrova is poetry in movement, mesmerising in everything she does, her every muscle harnessed to artistic expression.

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Bolshoi Ballet – Le Corsaire

A magical albeit overblown evening of unswerving elegance and deceptively effortless virtuosity.

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Ross Peters 4MBS Chamber Music Prize

Our obsession with competition has reached plague proportions, even in the classical music domain.

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