Following its success last year, the $90,000 fund will support the creation of up to 15 new works from underrepresented voices.

Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov shone in duet with the QSO in Rachmanimov’s Concerto No 2 for Piano and Orchestra, while ancient landscapes came to life in Lachlan Skipworth’s Hinterland.

Few surprises here in Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s frankly bland interpretations.

Music and neuroscience combine in a symphony of philosophical heft and power.

Ahead of his debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the brilliant violinist discusses the greatness of Brahms’ work, Joseph Joachim’s influence on it, and working with Donald Runnicles again.

With a program boasting Beethoven, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov and five world premieres from Australian composers, Chief Conductor Jessica Cottis and the CSO paint a colourful portrait in their 2023 season Chroma.

Playing an authoritarian orchestral conductor in Todd Field's new film Tár, Blanchett studied the mannerisms of the legendary Leonard Bernstein, and received rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival.

The award was presented to the legendary Maestro by His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley, Governor-General of Australia, at the Sydney Opera House following the Australian World Orchestra concert.

Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.

With Yeol Eum Son on piano and conducted by Eivind Aadland, this program of works by Maria Grenfell, Chopin, Moszkowski and Mendelssohn was rich in the flavours of Poland, Italy and the Apple Isle.

Behzod Abduraimov's dramatic, refined reading of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 was just one highlight in a wonderful concert also featuring Mozart and Prokofiev.

The audience goes crackers for the stunning male soprano from Caracas.