A five-day broadcast celebrates the achievements of female composers across the globe and at home, including Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Ella Macens, Anne Boyd and Hildegard von Bingen.

Wayne Shorter, the American jazz saxophonist and composer, has died in in Los Angeles, aged 89.

Geared to “grassroots” projects, the funding package will seek to reverse the 50% decline in the number of NSW music venues in recent years.

SIMA's Dundun Firestick lacked thematic cohesion but was made wholly satisfying by talented musicians exploring diverse but equally important themes.

Time and tides are explored and celebrated in SIMA's adventurous Jazz: NOW summer festival.

Linda May Han Oh’s Ephemeral Echoes explores the nature of transience and time, and brings the composer home to Perth for its world premiere.

Featuring some of Australia’s finest pianists in a visually immersive performance space, this four-day festival is piano heaven.

Australian Brett Dean has received an award for his song cycle Madame ma bonne soeur, with Thomas Adès, Judith Weir and Rebecca Saunders also among the winners.

In its Australian debut, the sax quartet, with violin, performs a seamless program of Bach, Weil and Gershwin, showcasing an exemplary sense of balance, clarity and tone.

Andrea Keller's ideal mid-week concert allows listeners to indulge in meditative escapism.

Melissa Aldana and her New York quartet provide a relatively constrained performance, while the curtain-raiser by Jo Lawry and Dan Tepfer is full of brilliance.

Finnish composer and harpist Iro Haarla and Australian double bassist Jonathan Zwartz collaborate on Suite Suomi – a group work that will premiere at SIMA’s Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival.