The Content Manager will say goodbye to the ABC after eight years as he moves to his new role as Director of Artistic Planning with the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the end of the month.

Adelaide will be illuminated in a new winter festival featuring an innovative program of music, art, light and technology.

Andrew Ford and Kylie Bracknell are among the winners in this year’s expanded awards.

The $90,000 fund, launched by ABC Classic and ABC Jazz, will support the creation of new music from emerging and diverse Australian voices.

Artistic Director Alan Cumming unveils the full program for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, describing it as his personal "cabaret love letter" to Australia.

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall and Damian Barbeler’s hiberNATION Festival of the Lo-fi are among the initiatives honoured.

Artists at the 19th iteration of the Southern Cross Soloists’ annual festival will include the Orava Quartet, pianists Jayson Gillham and Gladys Chua, New Zealand soprano Isabella Moore, violinist, dancer and composer Eric Avery and many more.

It was a double honour for soloist Nathan Brook who took home both the Telstra Rising Star Award and the People's Choice Award.

The artist and designer, whose work is well known to Sydney Festival and Bangarra Dance Theatre audiences, took up the newly created role this month.

The choir kicks off with a tour of Fauré, Brahms and Tavener across regional Victoria with tickets available for digital performances live and on-demand.

The new Pinchgut Opera scholarship program honours the legacy of Taryn Fiebig, who was thrilled when the idea was proposed to her shortly before she died.

A brand new production of Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, starring Australian soprano Jessica Pratt, comes to Sydney alongside the return of Aida and Attila.