Samantha Wolf explains how bonding with reality TV during the pandemic inspired her new piece for Ensemble Offspring.

From his school days and newspaper run to a reluctant walk-out from the opera, the Australian Minister for the Arts relives his musical rite of passage.

Danes complete their Prism project, Bychkov delivers a blistering Resurrection, outstanding Beethoven from Ohlsson in the mountains, and Piers Lane goes to town . . . again!

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

The Composer-in-Residence at this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) explains how the theft of an 18th-century viola helped turn her into a composer.

A round-up of our recent news reports.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

Actors are demanding that Hollywood catch up with technological changes in a sequel to a 1960 strike.

Advice dating back to the court of Frederick the Great still stands for students of Historically Informed Performance.

The composer discusses a new work that imagines the harmonic series of our solar system and employs magic squares to give each planet a musical colour.

In a world of multiple Beethoven, Shostakovich and Bartók cycles, asks Flinders Quartet, how have we missed Maconchy?

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music celebrates works that provoked audiences to make mayhem.