The versatile director discusses his touring production of Hair, opening tonight, The Selfish Giant for VO, and a new song cycle.

Luthiers have been making top-notch string instruments in Italy for centuries. Janet Wilson visits Roberto Cavagnoli in his Cremona studio where he is making copies of the Australian String Quartet’s original Guadagninis. She also asks some of the Australian musicians who play ‘Golden Age’ strings, what makes these highly prized (and pricey) instruments so special?

The conductor tells us about recording his disc of Dove's orchestral music, Limelight's Recording of the Month in August.

Have you ever wondered what happens inside a piano when you press down a key? Producer Matthew Lorenzon takes us behind the scenes of ABC Classic’s new video series, How a Piano Works.

While masterfully adaptable when his creativity was restricted by others, it was on being given a free rein that the Polish composer revealed his unique brilliance, as Adrian Thomas explains.

Experimental pianist Margaret Leng Tan, famous for her performances on toy piano, tells us about her work with John Cage and George Crumb, and how she learned to caw like a crow.

Violist Katie Yap introduces us to the period instrument ensemble, who describe themselves as ‘musical explorers’.

Roger Benedict and Dr Tracy Westerman tell us about how this latest concert will be raising funds for Indigenous suicide prevention.

The 19th century’s most romantic of Romantics was never short of an alter ego to embody his complex musical ideas. Ahead of performances of his ever-popular Piano Concerto, Clive Paget talks to Asher Fisch and asks will the real Robert Schumann please stand up?

The American dancer discusses his legendary partnership with Natalia Osipova and performing in her curated program of solos and duets coming to Sydney.

In his new concerto for Amy Dickson, Matthew Hindson harnesses the incredible flexibility of the soprano saxophone.

Composer Lachlan Skipworth tells us about collaborating with Numbulwar musician Don Nunggarrgalu on a new work commissioned for the orchestra's 30th birthday.