Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra showcases a balanced program, studded with stellar guest performers, and invites its audience to stay back for post-show small talk.

With its Noongar theme of Djinda (stars), this year's program will look to the cosmos. Artists include the Kronos Quartet with Maatakitj, Björk and a sneak-peek at Richard Mills' new opera about Galileo.

Fisch's tenure will now run until 2025, making him the longest-serving Principal Conductor in the history of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

With film scores including Babe, Paper Planes and Blueback, the composer will be recognised at the 2022 Screen Music Awards, to be held later this month.

Frances Rings will choreograph a deeply personal, full-length work for her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Bangarra.

The UNSW ensemble offers a season lit up by Bach, Ravel, Westlake and Edwards, with guest performers that loom large in NSW and internationally.

The modest, restrained budget has few initiatives for the arts and entertainment industry, though this was foreshadowed, with future arts funding to be laid out in the forthcoming Cultural Policy.

“We’re bringing space travel, balloons, shepherds, ninjas, great love, cups of tea, ghosts, cowboys, samosas, mysteries.... and theatre magic," says AD Lee Lewis of next year's season.

The renowned arts leader, who began blazing a trail in 1963 when she became a stage manager at age 22, has died, aged 81.

Applicants for the 2023 Prize are asked to submit a work for solo oboe, which will be developed in collaboration with oboist Ben Opie.

An adaptation of Miles Franklin’s My Brilliant Career features in Li Cunxin’s 11th season as Artistic Director, with Liam Scarlett’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set to enchant regional audiences.

Featuring two Australian exclusive shows and a host of international acts, UKARIA offers a powerhouse program at the intimate concert hall, in celebration of founder Ulrike Klein.