The award was presented to the legendary Maestro by His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley, Governor-General of Australia, at the Sydney Opera House following the Australian World Orchestra concert.

Fresh from performing at the Edinburgh Festival and BBC Proms, the Australian World Orchestra has arrived in Australia. Lily Bryant attends rehearsals and talks with some of the musicians.

On what could well be his last Australian visit, Zubin Mehta talks about his six-decade career, reuniting with the AWO, Strauss’s tone poems and his love of cricket.

The AWO will perform in Edinburgh before returning home for concerts in Melbourne and Sydney.

The great conductor will visit Melbourne and Sydney for an all-Strauss Fest with the Australian World Orchestra.

The Australian World Orchestra again proves its mettle as an orchestra that Sir Simon Rattle said is “not just a national treasure, it’s an international treasure".

If you call a piece Symphony, the weight of history bears down on you, says Paul Dean as he talks to Christopher Lawrence about his new work celebrating the Australian World Orchestra's first decade.

A new "Symphony" by Paul Dean will form the centrepiece of a three-city tour.

The QSO's 2021 season features three new commissions by Australian composers and a focus on the orchestra's own musicians.

Reporting from Paris, the Australian World Orchestra’s Alexander Briger discusses his new daily routine, his thoughts about the industry’s future, and how music lovers might pass this difficult time.

An ebullient evening of excellent music making, conducted by AWO founder Alexander Briger.

Love, torture and death are all vividly painted in Janáček’s rhapsody for orchestra Taras Bulba. Australian World Orchestra Artistic Director and Janáček specialist Alexander Briger tells us about the Czech composer’s Russian obsession and why his retelling of Gogol’s bloody tale is one of his greatest masterpieces.