CEO Emma Dunch introduces the shorter than usual program, which features 19 in-demand Australian soloists and conductors, and 15 Australian world premieres from the 50 Fanfares project.

Recorder player Alicia Crossley and pianist Jayson Gillham are among the nominees for Best Classical Album, while keyboard virtuoso Erin Helyard’s name comes up twice.

The Grammy Award-winning Canadian lyric soprano, a regular visitor to Australia, has died from complications due to metastatic breast cancer at the age of 44.

We are delighted at the positive response to our new-look publication, and excited to reveal what you will find in the November issue, now at the printer.

The semi-finalists represent 21 different cultural backgrounds. The Top 6 will share prize money raised from a GoFundMe campaign with over $27,000 already donated.

The Morrison Government has thumbed its nose at Australia’s arts and creative industries, while its support package announced in June has yet to come to fruition for any arts organisation.

The opera and festival director will lead the Festival in 2021 and 2022, while the Australian Chamber Orchestra takes up residency in October this year.

Deborah Cheetham’s Parrwang Lifts the Sky is one of four new works in the pipeline.

The Yorta Yorta soprano and composer takes over from Matthew Hindson in 2021, with a season featuring four new commissions.

The pair’s recording of violin sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart has won Best Independent Classical Album or EP at this year’s awards presented by the Australian Independent Record Labels Association.

OA is accused of "dropping a hand grenade" into the Opera Australia Orchestra by one of the 16 dumped musicians, while CEO Rory Jeffes responds to their accusations.

Arts figures have joined the campaign to stop Monash closing the school at the end of the year, while a proposed scrapping of musicology units has drawn international condemnation.