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Anne Cawrse, Melbourne Digital Concert Hall, Sydney Chamber Opera and Speak Percussion among those honoured at this year's Art Music Awards.

A good performance if low on imaginative invention.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra double bassist concludes a 32-year career with the orchestra at this Saturday's concert.

The new Health and Wellbeing program will share music throughout Queensland communities, including child-care centres, mental health units, residential aged care and detention centres.

The QSO’s Queensland’s Finest program featured three of Queensland’s brightest young classical artists – a composer, a conductor and a pianist – in a high quality and joyous program.

Deborah Cheetham, Celia Craig, Elena Kats-Chernin, Genevieve Lacey and Katie Noonan are among the finalists announced for the Australian Women in Music Awards.

A breezy, fun morning of sparkling orchestral favourites, which didn't always gel as a cohesive whole but which offered smooth sailing from QSO (and no jetlag).

This program of Bach's music is just the thing for an anxious world and is superbly performed by the ABO musicians and Jonas Zschenderlein, but the editing lets them down.

An attention to detail and a sophisticated handling of the entire spectrum of orchestral colours rendered this performance a triumph.

Braunfels’ lighter side is displayed at its most charming.

In the dangerous world of Joseph Stalin’s Russia, an embattled Dmitri Shostakovich unveiled a new symphony that would miraculously please both audiences and the authorities. Angus McPherson speaks to Asher Fisch and Mark Wigglesworth about the music that changed the composer’s life forever.