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.

Whether you’re recovering from open heart surgery, getting over an ex, or simply craving some ‘auditory cheesecake’, listening to music has a profound effect on your brain.

Ahead of his tour with the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, the US-based Australian pianist tells us about ditching medicine for music, fight-or-flight on stage, and why he went skydiving after the Rubinstein Competition finals.

The celebrated fashion designer, and arts patron, grew up in Italy listening to the garbage men singing arias. But it wasn’t until she moved to Australia that a life-long love for opera was kindled.