After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID lockdowns, Melbourne’s new winter arts festival has announced its program for June 2022.

The housewarming at Pier 2/3 will feature concerts, talks and livestreams, and lots of good friends.

The winners include Australian Digital Concert Hall, Erin Milne, All the Queens Men, Speak Percussion and Clare Watson.

The two new initiatives are aimed at providing opportunities for early-career musicians.

Our April features explore the new Cobar Sound Chapel, a documentary about luthier Harry Vatiliotis's last violin, musical arrangements in the past and today, and the joy of walking and its link to creativity.

The 91 recipients of the latest, and probably final, round of funding include City Recital Hall, Darwin Festival and State Opera South Australia for an interstate tour.

SCO will take a new opera by Mary Finsterer to Holland, and explore Britten at home, including a musical response by Luke Styles, with a creative team in residency for both works.

Five new composers enter the CoLAB for its second year.

Limelight’s round-up of concerts, broadcasts and special events happening this International Women’s Day.

Commissioned by the Australian Women in Music Awards, the new composition, entitled 'Jubilissima', will be premiered at the Awards ceremony in May.

The new four-day festival will feature artists including the Hilary Geddes Quartet, the Phil Slater Quintet, Hekka and others.

Emerging artists Alessandro Pittorino, Sara Duhig, Sarah Mills Menogue, Laurissa Brooke and Blake Houlahan will participate in the annual conductor development program.