Welcome initiatives and fine music from the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.

The season features Australian guest soloists including Siobhan Stagg, Jayson Gillham and Grace Clifford, a new chamber series, and a new initiative committed to greater representation of women composers.

"It's been a journey," says Co-Artistic Director Rachel Healy as the Adelaide Festival announces a program featuring 10 world premieres, 14 Australian premieres, and 18 events exclusive to the festival.

Find out what's on stage and streaming online in December from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Clarinettist tells us about the thrill of competitive motorsports, how drifting changed his attitude to performing, and what it’s like to play Sibelius with a collapsed lung.

Undaunted by COVID-19 disruption, concertmaster Natsuko Yoshimoto farewells the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra with a commanding performance of one of Beethoven’s greatest works.

Find out what's on stage – and streaming online – in October from Limelight editors Jo Litson, Angus McPherson and Clive Paget.

The orchestra will be back in Adelaide Festival Centre’s Festival Theatre in September, as long-serving concertmaster Natsuko Yoshimoto bids the ASO farewell.

While the orchestra is yet to return to the concert hall, it will perform a series of 'Sanctuary' concerts in Community Centres across metropolitan Adelaide in August.

All-Australian Beethoven concerti cycle brings zip and zing to favourites.

The multi-media artist will enter the world of the ASO, responding to the orchestra as “a living archive”, as part of a new Guildhouse Collections Project.

This week's highlights include brand new solo flute and guitar recitals, and a genre-defying orchestral concert from the archives.