Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier

Berlin | Communications Coordinator | Journalist

Germany

Highly skilled interviewer, columnist, and public speaker with work experience across Australia, Germany, the US, and the UK. Diverse body of content for print and digital since 2010, with strong focus on classical music and LGBTQ+ voices.

Interview subjects include authors, composers, comedians, and filmmakers, providing written features that are compelling, insightful, and wholly original.

I am the former Editor of the North & West Melbourne News, a quarterly-printed community newspaper.

I am always open to collaborations and freelance assignments. If you feel yours is a story worth sharing, please contact me via email: liamhrl.96@gmail.com

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The Monthly
03/31/2025
Heart of Glass: Listening to Philip Glass

Philip Glass's reputation precedes him - you've heard of him, even if you haven't heard his music. He has been an eminent composer for more than 60 years, yet popular culture still lampoons his early years as a prominent proponent of minimalism.

76th Berlinale International Film Festival

TEDDY AWARD
02/26/2026
TEDDY 40 Retrospective: 575 Castro St. with Director Jenni Olson

Casting her mind back to San Francisco in the 1970s – the setting of her 2009 short film 575 Castro St., a meditative study of the titular location where activist Harvey Milk processed the film negatives of his queer clientele – writer-director Jenni Olson recognises a strong sense of political urgency.

TEDDY TV | YouTube
02/17/2026
Interview with Gaël Kamilindi, "TAXI MOTO"

2026 TEDDY AWARD winner, Best Short Film: Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier in conversation with writer-director Gaël Kamilindi, discussing his award-winning short film "TAXI MOTO"

Blickpunkt:Film | The Spot - Media & Film
02/04/2026
TEDDY 40: Rückblick auf wegweisende Jahrzehnte – mit Wieland Speck

Am 20. Februar feiert der TEDDY AWARD sein 40-jähriges Jubiläum. In einem Gastbeitrag blickt Autor Liam Heitmann-Ryce-LeMercier auf die bewegende Geschichte des von Wieland Speck aka „Daddy of the TEDDY“ mitinitiierten queeren Filmpreises der Berlinale zurück.

Programme Notes and Classical Music Writing

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
07/09/2025
In Conversation: Aura Go on Composer Doreen Carwithen

Concert pianist, scholar, and leading advocate of new music in Australia and beyond, Aura Go returns to Melbourne Chamber Orchestra for a thrilling recital of a scarcely heard work by British composer Doreen Carwithen.

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
04/04/2025
Symphony Series #2: "Devotion"

Long-form programme notes for the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's "Devotion" concert, performing Brahms, Wennäkoski and Elgar

ABC Classic
03/25/2025
MCO: "Daybreak" - ABC Lunchtime Concert

The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra present a unique program featuring music of Mozart, George Walker and a world premiere by Matt Laing. Featuring interview with soloist David Griffiths.

Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
03/06/2025
2025 Season: In Conversation with Artistic Director Sophie Rowell

With a new work from the MCO’s own Matt Laing, receiving its premiere performance in season-opening concert Daybreak, to a showcase of composers from across the globe, Sophie is bringing the MCO into a new year with much verve and vibrancy.

Western Australian Charity Orchestra
07/12/2023
Planet Earth: Our World in Music

Digital copy of "Planet Earth: Our World in Music" concert programme notes for the Western Australian Charity Orchestra

The Age - Published in Melbourne Since 1854

scenestr - Live Music Reviews and Features

Scenestr
09/04/2025
Review: 'Mahlerfest' by Australian World Orchestra

For a composer as earth-shattering and heaven-splitting as Gustav Mahler, the Australian World Orchestra’s three-hour extravaganza presentation of the German composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies proved a fittingly titanic affair.

Scenestr
09/01/2025
Review: Jaws in Concert @ Arts Centre Melbourne

‘Jaws’ is one of those films to have earned the distinction of becoming so impossibly well-known that one has the impression of having essentially seen it already, even if only through decades of brief glances on Saturday afternoon TV or countless YouTube top-10 lists.

Limelight - Australian Arts & Culture

LIMELIGHT: Music, Arts & Culture
11/24/2025
Cutting Edge: A Sense of Self

Queer composer Connor D'Netto talks about consolidating a fractured view of his identity in his new album "Some Kinda Way".

Australian Design Review

Australian Design Review
05/26/2025
Matiya Marovich believes great architecture can exist anywhere

Matiya Marovich, founder of Adelaide-based architecture firm Sans-Arc, will be judging the 2025 Interior Design Excellence Awards, alongside Andrew Glover, Conrad Lowry, Jade Whittaker, Melissa Leung and jury chair Paul Hecker.

INTERVIEW: Video Game Composers

Retro Gamer
10/24/2025
007: Nightfire with Composer Jeff Tymoschuk

The late-90s and early 2000s were the golden years of 007 video games. At the centre of it all is the much-loved 2002 release Nightfire. Jeff Tymoschuk keenly pays homage to the series’ iconic music with his own reference-laden soundtrack.

Retro Gamer
08/28/2025
Music Memories: Dead Space with Composer Jason Graves

Setting the standard for modern survival horror games in 2008, the first Dead Space entry walked so that spiritual successors like Alien: Isolation could run. We speak to composer Jason Graves and learn how his tense, anxious score crafted the perfect atmosphere of stress and fear.

Retro Gamer
06/23/2025
Music Memories: Banjo Kazooie with Composer Grant Kirkhope

As early mascots of the Nintendo 64, Banjo the fist-swinging bear and Kazooie the egg-shooting breegull were heralded as British developer Rare’s answer to Super Mario 64. Nearly 30 years on, we speak to series composer Grant Kirkhope for his memories of working on the acclaimed platformer.

Retro Gamer
05/19/2025
Hitman at 25, with Series Composer Jesper Kyd

Since its late-2000 release exclusively for PC, Hitman: Codename 47 spawned a franchise which rode the golden age of sixth-gen consoles. With eight mainline titles, and two film adaptations, we go back to where it all started with original series composer Jesper Kyd.

Retro Gamer
04/10/2025
Music Memories: GoldenEye N64 with Composer Grant Kirkhope

Selling eight million copies, GoldenEye N64 was the title that helped Nintendo keep pace with its biggest rival – Sony’s PlayStation. Today, it lives on as the game that invented the modern first-person shooter.

INTERVIEW: Film Composers

CutCommon | the new generation of classical music
11/22/2024
"Baby's Day Out" at 30: Interview with Oscar-nominated composer Bruce Broughton

Every film, even those written off at release, is the result of at least some care and effort. In fact, many 'forgotten' films stand the test of time, and are well worth revisiting. Celebrating its 30 th birthday this year, one such film is the underrated children's comedy Baby's Day Out.

CutCommon | the new generation of classical music
01/30/2021
Could your favourite film score have been composed by your local councillor?

Artists can undergo an entire evolutionary cycle of job roles throughout the course of their film career, in front of and behind the camera. As in the case of Australian composer Christopher Gordon, music makers might dip their toes into completely different waters, too.

CutCommon | the new generation of classical music
01/14/2021
Film composer Antony Partos discusses his life in Australian music

It was on an aeroplane in June, 2010 that I first heard the music of Antony Partos. I was 13, flying from the United Kingdom back home to Western Australia with my older brother to spend the summer holiday with our dad.

Prism & Pen
11/21/2020
Hey, Barracuda! Queer TV in Australia, with Composer Bryony Marks

AUSTRALIA, BOTH AS COUNTRY AND CONCEPT, is something of a paradox. An enormous sunburnt landmass dumped at the bottom of the planet, a million miles from anything else, one would be forgiven for presuming the disconnected nature of its inhabitants.

Beat Magazine - Reviews & Opinion

Beat Magazine
11/26/2024
Brat, again? Come on, gays, we can do better than that

And so they wiggle their asses, with much gay abandon beneath the strobe lights. "Brat" just came on. What a sight, these queer friends of mine, their heads raised skyward and shrieking from the height of their little sparkly lungs.

INTERVIEW: Artists & Creatives

STUN Magazine - Queer Culture and Community
06/02/2025
Rising queer pop star THORNE drops some honey

Queer pop star on the rise THORNE drops new single "Honey" - and, girl, is it sweet. Barbados-born, Guyanese-Australian queer pop artist THORNE returns to their well-deserved place in the spotlight with sultry new single "Honey".

Western Australian Charity Orchestra
07/03/2023
Breath of the West: WA Oboist Leanne Glover on a Life in Music and Australian Arts

For Australian classical performer Leanne Glover, there are strong links between the musicality of the human voice and the oboe, the chosen instrument of her professional life in music. It is the ties between these two forms of expression which afford her an even deeper understanding of the music she plays onstage for a living.

Prism & Pen
02/18/2021
Hornet CEO Harnesses Purchasing Power of LGBTQ+ Community

The loudest voices and strongest changemakers often emerge from the sidelines. In their efforts to be recognised and represented, and by dint of their diminished population, minority groups are required to surmount far greater hardships than most.

FilmInk - Cinema News & Interviews

Public Speaking Videos

Delivered. - Deutsche Post DHL Global Customer Magazine

Berlin Stories

Prism & Pen
10/18/2022
I Met a Guy in a Gay Sauna in Berlin and Now I'm Going to Canada

I was asleep when he first saw me, passed out on a massage bed in the Ruheraum of the Boiler men's sauna. The room is no bigger than a train station Starbucks, housing two parallel rows of about ten beds, as seen through a glass wall allowing visitors to seek out a potential resting buddy.