Ahead of High Score 2022, composer Jeff van Dyck and orchestrator Nathan Cummins reveal the treasures they uncovered while recording the soundtrack for Submerged: Hidden Depths.

Simone Young discusses the highlights of her second “theatrical” year as the SSO’s Chief Conductor, including several works she will conduct for the first time in her celebrated career.

Festival Director Ian Cleworth discusses the inaugural BOOM! International Festival of Percussion, which celebrates percussive beats across the spectrum from cutting-edge art music to Afro-Latin.

A newly formed Artistic Advisory Committee will be chaired by Paul Stanhope, with guest directors engaged in 2023 as Artistic Director Antony Pitts steps aside.

AD Lyn Williams will shortly be meeting applicants via Zoom for Gondwana Choirs in 2023. She expresses her excitement at the programs in store, including collaborations with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and New Zealand Youth Choir.

Celebrating 70 years of music-making, the program featured two world premieres by composers Ella Macens and Michael Dooley celebrating the art of singing and Canberra's natural diversity.

Eric Whitacre's writing for voice is deft, while the words are unremittingly touching in this moving piece about love, death, anger and grief.

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The creators of three versions of Swan Lake discuss the ballet’s DNA.

Read an extract from The Northern Silence, a new book by Andrew Mellor, which interrogates the Nordic psyche and its impact on composers.

One hundred and fifty years after his birth, we analyse the forging of Ralph Vaughan Williams – the quintessential voice of English music.

There have been so many deluges when he conducts outdoors that Guy Noble is beginning to wonder if he has rain-making powers. As for the bugs he encounters, just open his scores.