The Adaptive Music Bridging Program, a research project by the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Youth Orchestras, will give students with disability access to musical instruments and education.
Lyndon Terracini's final season includes The Tales of Hoffmann with Jessica Pratt, Adriana Lecouvreur with Ermonela Jaho, and concert versions of La Gioconda with Jonas Kaufmann in Sydney and Philip Glass's Satyagraha in Melbourne.
The Norwegian maestro will stay on as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra for another four years.
Chief Conductor Jaime Martín discusses the season which includes 17 new works, including three by Composer in Residence Mary Finsterer, while soprano Siobhan Stagg is Artist in Residence.
Melissa Douglas will spend 12 months with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2023 as the first female Cybec Young Composer in Residence.
Australian and women composers figure prominently in a season that is as inclusive as it is adventurous.
Addressing the ongoing gender imbalance in opera, Lyric Opera breathes new life into Elena Kats-Chernin's first opera Iphis, as part of a new partnership with Theatre Works.
Ryan Enniss’s humorous and heartwarming play about his experiences as a neurodiverse Australian will hit the stage next year.
The judges listened, the votes are in, and the verdict is…
This month's features explore Melbourne Opera's Bendigo Ring Cycle, the challenge for orchestras to attract younger audiences, the new physical theatre production Holding Achilles, and an interview with choral superstar Eric Whitacre.
The new arrangement will enable students to collaborate with the AWO's leading musicians and learn from their international expertise.
The pioneering Australian composer, who died earlier this year, will be recognised with a posthumous award at the Art Music Awards.
The genre-straddling day of music will bring world-class performers back to the Blue Mountains for the first time in two years.
