This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

This month we feature Samuel Hasselhorn in a Rolls-Royce Schubert recital, Mendelssohn from Leipzig, new music by Paul Stanhope and Carl Vine, and a Ring Cycle from Dallas.

The Australian Ballet's Music Director and Chief Conductor on the music of Aaron Copland and choreographer Justin Peck's captivating Copland Dance Episodes.

Rather than “tackling” dementia with music, how can we better capitalise on its unique potentials as a resource for well-being and quality of life?

Now based in Basel, the Australian composer chats about her blossoming career and her role as the Australian World Orchestra's librarian.

Monteverdi's opera of lust and ambition gets a Mob makeover courtesy of Victorian Opera.

Erin Helyard on making his UK debut as conductor with Handel’s love-and-sorcery drama Amadigi di Gaula at the Buxton International Festival.

The conductor talks about completing one of the most challenging of all symphonic cycles.

Cameron Lam collects memories of home, travelling, and correspondence in the latest Australian Art Music playlist.

Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.

Simone Slattery and Anthony Albrecht discuss The Bowerbird Collective's Melbourne debut at Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, featuring a cinematic ode to the evolution of song.