This month, Guy Noble discusses nominative determinism and what might have happened if Donald Trump had a different surname. As for his own name . . .

If you are creating something, Guy Noble recommends you don’t show an early draft to anyone for feedback. They may say it’s terrible, and they could be right – or wrong, as Tchaikovsky discovered.

As part of a recent cultural delegation to Zhejiang province, Guy Noble was impressed by what he saw, particularly at the Conservatory of Music.

As her international career goes from strength to strength, Suzie Miller talks about her latest play, Strong is the New Pretty, about the formation of the AFL’s women’s league.

Directors Shannon Burns and Patrick Nolan lift the curtains on their new productions of the fairy-tale musical Into the Woods for two of our opera companies.

Composer and saxophonist Katia Beaugeais discusses her new Piano Concerto No. 1, which includes improvised bird calls and whistling.

Ahead of their upcoming tour, Dutch piano duo Lucas & Arthur Jussen tell Jansson J. Antmann how brotherly love sustains them on the road.

The acclaimed Australian tenor on the world premiere of Jonathan Mills’ song cycle, Songs for the Stranger, with the Australian World Orchestra.

Ahead of his 90th birthday, two landmark works by Minimalist composer Philip Glass are being performed in a special one-off concert in Melbourne.

Thomas Meadowcroft chats to Maddy Briggs about his new concerto for two Foley artists, a collection of odd objects and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

As endorphins flooded his brain while lugging firewood to the woodpile at his house, Guy Noble found his envy for trillionaire Elon Musk slowly turning to pity.

Dubbed the Eric Clapton of the lute, French virtuoso Thomas Dunford is spreading the love, from the Baroque to his own music.