The orchestra’s 2020 Remixed program includes Carmina Burana and Dvořák’s Eighth conducted by Jessica Gethin, while Asher Fisch conducts Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Beethoven.

The Australian Haydn Ensemble, Hayes Theatre Co, Pinchgut Opera and many more arts organisations will receive support from the City of Sydney.

STCSA will present the Victorian thriller Gaslight at the refurbished Her Majesty’s Theatre. Griffin also plans to perform its first live play in September, following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

Selected from 486 applications to the ABC’s Australian Music Fund, established to support local artists during the coronavirus crisis, the new works will be presented over the coming year.

Bassoonist and audiologist Kristen Sutcliffe tells us about a new study that will see musicians perform for residents of Goodwin House living with dementia, with the participants themselves calling the tunes.

The Sydney venue, which went into voluntary administration in May, is set to reopen thanks to the generosity of philanthropists.

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall helps a salvaged 2020 Festival move online.

Limelight has received a Small Business Grant from the City of Sydney through its COVID-19 Relief Grants for a three-part program to support performing arts companies as they gradually return to the stage.

The new National Chamber Music Championship for high school students, launched by Musica Viva to mark its 75th anniversary, will now take place online.

Tributes are pouring in for the Italian composer, famed for his film scores, who has died in Rome at the age of 91.

Amy Dickson, Joseph Tawadros, Katie Noonan & the Australian String Quartet, Richard Tognetti & Erin Helyard, and WASO, Asher Fisch & Stuart Skelton are this year’s nominees.

The US-based Australian composer takes home $10,000 as the winner of the inaugural Monash International Women’s Day Composition Commission Prize.