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.

Artistic Directors of ballet companies are usually male, as they all are in Australia. But here, the Executive Directors are all female. Dilshani Weerasinghe and Jessica Machin tell Jill Brown about their relationship with their artistic counterparts, and the future directions they want to shape.

Peggy Glanville-Hicks should be a national icon. So why is she not better known? Hugh Robertson, Label Manager at ABC Classic, explains how the ABC is raising the profile of Australian women composers.

Ahead of his performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion, the organist and director explains why he ditched the Mendelssohn to edit his own version of the ‘greatest story ever told’ for Perth.

The experimental pianist tells us about his Piano Ex Machina tour, which comes to Australia this month, and how Internet users can control what he does on stage.

Over 100 of today’s finest Australian and international singers have cast their votes to determine the most influential voices across the ages. Now, 30 singers tell us what makes our top 30 truly great.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s duty to write music for the Easter period led to some of his most inspired and dramatically inventive masterpieces.

The American conductor tells us about swapping guitar for baton, what recording can do for an orchestra, and her new Respighi disc, which is Limelight's Recording of the Month in April.

Before unleashing his new concerto with the MSO, clarinettist-composer Paul Dean talks about the musicians that inspired it.

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