Latest cultural survey shows audience confidence growing
One in four have returned to cultural events, and 42 per cent plan to return. However, 22 per cent said their long-term attendance will be negatively affected by COVID-19.
July 22, 2020
Australian String Quartet launches platform with a dash of sporting event excitement
ASQ Live + On Demand will include lifestyle elements to welcome viewers into the heart of their world.
July 22, 2020
Review: Beethoven: Symphony No 5 (MusicAeterna, Teodor Currentzis)
Currentzis’ Beethoven confronts the axiomatic assumptions of musicological progenitors.
July 22, 2020
WASO returns to the stage in October
The orchestra’s 2020 Remixed program includes Carmina Burana and Dvořák’s Eighth conducted by Jessica Gethin, while Asher Fisch conducts Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Beethoven.
July 21, 2020
Supported by 
City of Sydney COVID-19 Relief Grants announced
The Australian Haydn Ensemble, Hayes Theatre Co, Pinchgut Opera and many more arts organisations will receive support from the City of Sydney.
July 21, 2020
Review: Howard Skempton: Piano Works (William Howard)
Exquisite piano miniatures from a perfect partnership of composer and pianist.
July 19, 2020
Review: Weber: Euryanthe (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Trinks)
Jacquelyn Wagner, and a first-rate musical reading all round, uncovers a masterpiece.
July 19, 2020
Review: Raphael: String Quartets (Acacia Quartet)
Aussie quartet rediscovers a 20th-century German master.
July 18, 2020
Did you hear about the bigamous composer and the Russian courtesan?
Behind every mediocre man there might be a fascinating woman.
July 17, 2020
Review: Rough Ideas (Stephen Hough)
The polymath pianist offers up succinctly sketched thoughts on music and much, much more.
July 17, 2020
The Sydney Piano Marathon offers piano aplenty
With the Sydney International Piano Competition postponed until next year, a three-day digital marathon will take place on what was to have been the finals weekend.
July 16, 2020
Patrick Brennan on the road back to the podium after nearly losing a hand
The conductor and AD of the Central Coast Conservatorium of Music talks publicly for the first time about his rehabilitation after almost severing his left hand in a garden accident.
July 15, 2020
ABC Classic and ABC Jazz commission 25 new Australian works
Selected from 486 applications to the ABC’s Australian Music Fund, established to support local artists during the coronavirus crisis, the new works will be presented over the coming year.
July 14, 2020