Czech new wave cinema, a love triangle and a real-life besotted composer – director Heather Fairbairn talks Victorian Opera's Katya Kabanova.

How did two remarkable women become the Civil War's greatest spies?

ASQ has launched a new podcast in which the musicians bring personal perspective to key works.

Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.

School's in for Lachlan McDonald, who will step onto the stage with the Tallis Scholars without so much as a rehearsal.

Wynona Wang returns to Australia for Out West Piano Fest and a NSW tour. In her repertoire is a work Schubert once said "only devils can play".

ASQ in gift-giving mood on its 40th birthday. Chris Reid dropped in to partake of a family-friendly all-day event.

If musical training can reshape the brain in so many ways, can it also change the way musicians feel pain?

From surfing data to supporting Hiromi, Freyja Garbett is carving out a bold new path – and helping others do the same.

Music by an Australian great is about to be heard for the first time in London. Pianist Rosemary Tuck traces its journey to the concert stage.

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What is synaesthesia? How does it manifest itself in music makers and their listeners? We talk to a leading expert and musicians to find out.