About Big Music:
Beat is given a chance to shine when she is appointed dean of Turalong Music School, but her role is not what it seems. Fine tuning this institution is like playing a cracked violin with broken strings. Shes determined to revive the schools reputation despite gender bias, staff conflict, fraud, betrayal, a famous composers ghost and a predatory university. Beat loves the wild mashes of sound: trumpets, electric guitars, flutes and saxophones which blaze all day and night – indeed the book has its own soundtrack – but shes barely able to keep the school together, let alone her home life on her beloved hobby farm. Keen to unify her squabbling colleagues from opposite musical traditions, she puts a fresh spin on programming to show audiences something new: a combined Beethoven and rock festival. Music or politics? What will be her magnum opus?
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Author Bio:
Gillian Wills is an author, arts writer, music reviewer and writes for many print and online magazines including Limelight, Australian Book Review, InDailyQueensland and The Brisbane Times. Her memoir Elvis and Me: how a world weary musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other was released in Australia, America, The UK, Canada, New Zealand in 2016. In 2024, Gillian published her debut novel Big Music which was listed as a notable book in The Australian. She won a Golden Able Award for Best Fiction in October, 2025. She lives on a small farm with three rescued horses, three ducks, a greyhound, a bull arab dog and her husband the artist Mostyn Bramley-Moore.