Steve Moffatt, who has been following the Sydney International Online Piano Competition, brings us up to speed as the Semi Finalists are announced.

The NSW Government is investing an additional $24 million into its Arts and Cultural Funding Program over the next four years.

The new study by the Donne – Women in Music foundation, analysing the music played by 100 orchestras from 27 countries during the 2020-21 season, highlights the lack of representation.

Musicians and singers, who were rehearsing OA’s Otello, are now in self-isolation after a construction worker at Sydney Opera House tested positive for COVID-19.

Canberra-born soprano Chloe Lankshear, who performed alongside Taryn Fiebig in the Pinchgut Opera film A Delicate Fire, is Pinchgut's first Taryn Fiebig Scholar.

TSO Community will deliver digital content and performances to community aged care facilities across Tasmania and beyond.

The Australia Council report, In Real Life: Mapping digital cultural engagement in the first decades of the 21st century, looks at how audiences have adapted to digital performance platforms.

This year's Pop Up North Queensland has expanded to include four diverse regions, with events taking place in stunning locations including beaches, a cane field and a secret CBD location.

ABC Classic and ABC Jazz announce the recipients of its $90,000 composer commissioning fund, which will support 15 new Australian works by a diverse range of artists.

The Dutch composer and musical agitator, whose music crossed boundaries, has passed aged 82.

Timothy Sexton, former Artistic Director of State Opera South Australia, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for abusing two teenage girls between 1989 and 1993.

Patrick Burns has been appointed as the new AD of Melbourne's Lyric Opera and plays a program committed to female Australian composers in 2022.