The Melbourne-based band has been nominated for 12 ARIA awards and won one. The Cat Empire’s original members disbanded in 2021 after more than two decades of touring, before announcing a new line-up in mid-2022.
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Musicians of the MSO passed a vote of no confidence in senior management on Friday following the furore over Gillham’s cancelled performance. In response, the orchestra’s board said it would conduct “an independent external review into our policies, procedures and processes”.
At last Sunday’s recital, Gillham was introducing a new work by Australian composer Connor D’Netto called Witness, which Gillham “dedicated to the journalists of Gaza”. MSO initially said it had received complaints about his introduction, which was “made completely without authority”.
In a letter, the MSO’s musicians said there had been significant concerns about the culture at the orchestra for years.
“Whilst this motion has been directly related to the events surrounding the cancellation this week, we see it as the culmination of years of unresolved concerns, ongoing mismanagement, and a consistent decline in workplace culture that has undermined the well-being of employees and the long-term success of the company,” the letter said.
“We no longer have faith in the abilities of our senior management to make decisions that are in the best interests of the company at large.”
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