Pianist Sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Claims He Was Silenced Over Gaza Remarks

Published on October 4, 2024

The Australian pianist whose concert was cancelled by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after he interrupted an earlier performance to speak about the conflict in Gaza is taking the matter to the Federal Court, stating he was “silenced for speaking the truth.” At a concert in Southbank on Aug. 11, Jayson Gillham deviated from the scheduled programme and played a short piece called Witness, written by Connor D’Netto, which is dedicated to journalists who have been killed in the Gaza conflict. He told the audience that more than 100 Palestinian journalists had been killed, and that targeting journalists in a conflict was a war crime under international law....

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