Detractors cite Béla Bartók’s famous quote: “Competitions are for horses, not artists”, yet music competitions are proliferating. Xenia Hanusiak, who has first-hand experience as a competitor, journalist and administrator, considers why so many musicians are happy to be judged, and the raft of possible benefits.

Guitarist Sako Dermenjian and violinist Anna Da Silva Chen tell us about the pleasures of Piazzolla and how they're challenging the idea that the composer is ‘not serious enough’.

As online streaming becomes the dominant way people listen to music, Limelight investigates how these changes are affecting the classical music industry.

Philippe Jaroussky was one of the first countertenors to meet with international stardom. He tells Mélissa Lesnie about his new album, conducting his first opera, and passing on what he’s learned.

Nia Pericles' moving documentary, screening on ABC TV tonight, and then on ABC iView, charts her artist father's major retrospective and her mother's dementia.

Clive Paget looks at what we can learn about Tchaikovsky the man by listening to the music with the help of Maestro Semyon Bychkov, who has just released new recordings of the complete symphonies and piano concertos.

The Perth concert series’ new Artistic Director discusses what audiences can expect from the rest of the season.

UK company 1927 is back with its new show, blending actors, animation and music.

In her new concerto for orchestra, Cathy Milliken drew on a poem by Walt Whitman and the different processes of weaving.

The resident satirist for ABC’s 7.30 tells us how a falling chandelier changed his life, triggering an obsession with musicals and cast recordings, and how he established the UTS Disco Society.

Conjuring Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel Invisible Cities on stage seemed an impossible but irresistible challenge. Leo Warner and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui tell Olivia Stewart how they and their creative team have used every possible tool to (loosely) bring the book to life.

The exquisite young artist has returned from injury a wiser, more mature dancer.