Do you pick the piano, or do you favour the flute? The polls are open for Australians to choose their favourite instruments.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

A five-day broadcast celebrates the achievements of female composers across the globe and at home, including Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, Ella Macens, Anne Boyd and Hildegard von Bingen.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Vote for your favourite instrument in this year’s Countdown, a celebration of music ‘from the piano to the pipa’.

Important works, impeccably realised, from one of Australia’s finest.

A striking, genre-splicing pot-pourri finds Tognetti and ACO on fine form.

This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Benedict and Tedeschi revel in a viola’s take on Debussy and Ravel.

The ABC has commissioned 15 composers from a diverse range of backgrounds to create a new work, with the opportunity of a studio recording and commercial digital release.