Virtuosity is a given, writes Phil Scott. Winners will be judged on their choices, personal presence and relationship with the orchestra.

Full of heart and emotional complexity, Forgetting Tim Minchin doesn't leave a dry eye in the house.

A celebration of music both Great and British, Fish, Chips & Warm Beer was brilliantly played and passionately delivered.  

This arresting new production of Caryl Churchill’s Far Away makes its dystopian vision seems more prophetic than ever.

A community collaboration that dissolves the boundaries between cultures and creates a wondrous new musical performance.

Lacking nuance and originality, Jailbaby’s depictions of violence seem gratuitous, its characters insufficiently complex.

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Choir reconnects Jalaluddin Rumi's 13th century poems to the divine.

Brilliant showman Ray Chen is back with a new Strad for a spectacular double homecoming.

A frustrating chimera of a lecture-performance hybrid buoyed by Aura Go’s Chopin.

Jessica Pratt and Iván Ayón Rivas head a superb cast in Damiano Michieletto’s thrilling production of Offenbach’s last, greatest opera.

Under Nigel Westlake, the country’s top young players give the composer’s brilliant song cycle the orchestral premiere it deserves.

A genuinely electrifying return to Hamer Hall for Zaachariaha Fielding, Michael Ross and the MSO.