The German clarinettist tells us about the instruments that lay under and on top of the piano, career choices and the challenges and pleasures to be found in Mozart, Weber and working with Yuja Wang.

The composer tells Limelight about her new flute concerto, ‘haiku moments’ and why playing clarinet in the orchestra gave her flute envy.

Opera Queensland's production of Verdi's Requiem for the Bleach* Festival will draw on the natural environment of the Gold Coast, with a few surprises thrown in.

From Dame Emma Kirkby to Elena Kats-Chernin, not to mention a jam with local folk band Malumba, Harriet Cunningham reports on an Easter long weekend at the Four Winds Festival.

A new chamber music series is looking to embrace wider audiences with its relaxed atmosphere.

Amber McMahon and Sharon Millerchip discuss performing in a play where the characters are at a silent retreat.

Kip Williams and a top cast explore the truth and mendacity in Tennessee Williams’ play.

The Farm stages a B-grade thriller viewed from inside your own car.

He found fame with his iconic screen persona, but not everyone knows Charlie Chaplin was a gifted violinist who composed the scores for every one of his films. Clive Paget talks to Philippe Quint, who has arranged a dozen of his greatest hits, about The Little Tramp’s musical connections.

A major Marcel Duchamp retrospective comes to the Art Gallery of NSW.

The fugue has long obsessed composers and musicians, who have found in it pinnacles of intellectual and spiritual expression. Canberra International Music Festival's Artistic Director unravels the mysteries of the complex form, with which Johann Sebastian Bach praised God and King.

The composer's new multi-choral work for Sydney Philharmonia Choirs is his largest yet. He explains how Bach's Magnificat and the 'bullet time' technique from The Matrix inspired his music.