Cameron Lam explores the music of South Australia in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

Surveying 111 orchestras across 31 countries, including Australia, the report found that only 7.7 percent of works programmed in 2021–2022 were by women composers.

In the fourth and final concert of its Beethoven series, the ASO gave committed and virtuosic performances of the 8th and 9th Symphonies under Douglas Boyd.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

The first in a series of four concerts, conducted by Douglas Boyd, illuminates the nature and significance of Beethoven’s nine symphonies.

Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.

The latest arts appointments and departures.

The former oboist and Artistic Director of Garsington Opera discusses conducting Beethoven’s nine symphonies in two weeks for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

Venues like intervals as they make money from the bar sales, but should performers be forced into having one if it interrupts the natural flow of the show?

Strauss's songs were given an intoxicating performance by soprano Nicole Car, while Wagner's Ring without Words had some marvellous moments under conductor Nicholas Braithwaite.

After close to a decade as Managing Director at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Vincent Ciccarello is to step down from the role.

This month our features explore investing in music education, reevaluating Australian culture through a regional lens, two stage adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde and whether postmodernism has put paid to beauty.