Backstage Music spotlights the works of artists with disability in a program rich with unique practices and fascinating considerations.

This thoughtful recital was an ideal showcase for a very fine trio and a new, rather unique, highly atmospheric concert space for Adelaide.

Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis proved a saviour at times as the MSO played with its talented Young Artist in Association, 14-year-old Christian Li, while Brahms' Symphony No 4 received an impressive performance.

Asher Fisch and his forces awake this behemoth with sensitivity and abandonment, portraying the epic life-and-death struggle as conflict, but also as progress and reconciliation.

Mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell will take over the role from the orchestra's founder Bourby Webster in January, having recently worked as WA State Manager for Musica Viva Australia.

The quartet renews its commitment to gender-balanced programming across three mainstage concerts, featuring three new premieres from Australian composers and tours across urban and regional Victoria.

Craig Whitehead, who has been working as interim CEO at SSO, will now step into the role permanently.

In Currency House's New Platform Paper series, First Nations philosopher Tyson Yunkaporta examines how different concepts of arts, culture and economics have informed the history of relations between Aboriginal and colonial Australia. Read an extract here.

Touring opportunities, co-commissions and digital innovation top an ambitious wish list.

The jovial British conductor reveals a very personal relationship with Handel's masterpiece, as he prepares to conduct his arrangement with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Clive Paget talks to singer and conductor about the life of a 19th-century 'everywoman' and the challenge of matching her talents.

William Barton wins two awards from three nominations, Joseph Tawadros wins for the third year in a row, while Carl Vine and the Australian Chamber Orchestra also emerge victorious.