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Classical Music, News
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Musica Viva Australia announces Strike A Chord 2025 finalists

In total, 675 young musicians participated in this year’s competition, with ensembles ranging from traditional string quartets to a harmonica trio.

June 20, 2025
Classical Music, Opera
CD and Other Review

Review: Ponchielli: I Lituani (Kaunas State Choir, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Modestas Pitrėnas) 

Ponchielli’s pre-Gioconda hit given a fair suck of the sauce bottle. 

June 20, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Baroque Unleashed (Australian Brandenburg Orchestra)

The Brandies’ top-notch core players are unleashed in a clutch of concertos.

June 18, 2025
Classical Music, News
news

Alfred Brendel dies, aged 94

Alfred Brendel, a singular pianist, thinker and master interpreter of Beethoven and Schubert's piano music, has died in London.

June 18, 2025
Classical Music, Instrumental
CD and Other Review

Review: Bach: the Toccatas (Jonathan Ferrucci)

An Italian-Australian pianist finds the fantasy in Bach’s Toccatas.

June 18, 2025
Classical Music, Opera
news

Double victory for conductor Leonard Weiss

The MSO Cybec Assistant Conductor wins the Khachaturian International Competition and Berlin Music Opera Award.

June 17, 2025
Classical Music, Opera, Orchestral
news

Gabriella Di Laccio earns MBE

Donne, Women in Music's founder awarded the prestigious title for her services to music and gender equality.

June 17, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Festivals
features

Paul Dean: Clarinet cliques

Paul Dean talks his new clarinet quintet premiering at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music with Michael Collins, his childhood clarinet hero.

June 17, 2025
Classical Music
features

Relaxed and comfortable

Low lights and beanbags, earmuffs and fidget toys. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra creates concert experiences catering to those with sensory sensitivities.

June 17, 2025
Classical Music
features

Sam Weller puts Australia centrestage in Rotterdam

Correspondent Clare Varney spoke to Aussie hopeful Sam Weller ahead of his finals appearance at the International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam.

June 16, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Donald Runnicles conducts Beethoven & Strauss (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)

Runnicles’ round trip starts with a four-minute smile, takes us back to childhood and ends in a heroic struggle.

June 16, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Festivals, News
news

Australian Festival of Chamber Music to relocate to Cairns in 2026

AFCM ends 35-year relationship with Townsville. Decision to leave made a certainty by city council's rejection of new concert hall plan.

June 16, 2025
Classical Music, Vocal & Choral
CD and Other Review

Review: A thousand beautiful and graceful inventions (The University of Queensland Chamber Singers, Graeme Morton)

An enthusiastic survey of ingenuity in the golden age of polyphony.

June 16, 2025

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