William Barton’s new lullaby for QSO
Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton discusses his world premiere for Queensland Symphony Orchestra and his performances at Illuminate Adelaide and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.
June 17, 2021
Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: June 2021
Cameron Lam explores the string quartet in this month's playlist of Australian art music.
June 16, 2021
On Screen: in cinemas and streaming from June 2021
In this month's column, Lynden Barber praises the storytelling efficiency of TV comedy and examines a film with a Maori theme.
June 16, 2021
Murder will out: The Princes in the Tower become an opera
Alexander Voltz explores one of history's most notorious unsolved crimes.
June 15, 2021
Joe Twist on his new choral work An Australian Song Cycle
As Sydney Chamber Choir premieres his new song cycle, Joe Twist discusses his musical inspirations, and working between Hollywood and Australia on animations to the concert hall.
June 14, 2021
World Premiere: Kim Cunio’s CO2 and the Ice Core
The composer reveals how a recording of an ice core melting broke his heart and inspired this piece of music.
June 11, 2021
New festival showcases musicians and their artworks
The art's for sale, from Stephen Hough's erotic surge to Nathaniel Boyd en plein air.
June 11, 2021
Supported by 
SSO musicians discuss their favourite upcoming repertoire
Andrew Haveron, Ben Jacks, Scott Kinmont and the SSO horn section discuss Britten and Shostakovich, Mozart, Tchaikovsky and 50 Fanfares.
June 10, 2021
In Song, concerts by Sydney Chamber Opera
This program of artsong concerts, performed by four solo singers for Sydney Chamber Opera, will illustrate where the modern song has found itself in the 21st century.
June 8, 2021
Extract: Programming must get with the program
Australians deserve to hear a great deal more music by First Nations peoples, women, gender non-conforming people, composers of colour, and our male contemporaries argues Felicity Wilcox.
June 4, 2021
Alexander Gavrylyuk on Schumann, Brahms and returning to Sydney
The Ukrainian-born pianist talks about returning to live performance and his love of the Romantics ahead of his upcoming Sydney recital.
June 3, 2021
Opera Column: Opera rises like a phoenix from viral ashes
A glimpse of what opera could become post-COVID, as the artform embraces drive-ins, livestreams, virtual reality and digitally augmented live performances.
June 2, 2021
Nicolas Fleury: A journey round the horn
The French horn maestro talks about his Musica Viva tour and all things horn.
May 31, 2021