Quadrant critic derides Auslan interpreter as a “bizarre sight”, prompting backlash from arts leaders.

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Australian composer Alexander Voltz has won €10,000 for his orchestral work at the prestigious competition held in Bucharest, Romania.

Queensland’s chamber band lets the sun shine in with 10 local composers.

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.

The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Concert will be held at St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane to raise money for the Australian Red Cross and help flood victims.

Camerata's 2022 Emerging Composer-in-Residence didn't have to think twice when asked to write a new work based on an iconic Queensland location.

Two Australian composers, one from Ukraine, share their outrage at Russia's invasion of their country, and suggest ways Australian arts audiences can help.

Brisbane-based Alexander Voltz has been appointed as the 2022 Emerging Composer-in-Residence of Camerata – Queensland's Chamber Orchestra.

We look at opera's love affair with wine, the Australian Chamber Orchestra's new project River, and Virginia Gay's emergence as a playwright. We also salute Paul Goodchild, doyen of Australian brass.

A new opera about the Princes in the Tower concludes they were murdered – but not by Richard III.

Alexander Voltz explores one of history's most notorious unsolved crimes.