The Composer-in-Residence at this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) explains how the theft of an 18th-century viola helped turn her into a composer.

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music celebrates works that provoked audiences to make mayhem.

Perfect pitch. If you don’t have it, can you acquire it? And to be a musician, do you need it?

As he prepares to deliver talks at the Australian Festival Chamber of Music, musical polymath Stephen Johnson discusses the music of Shostakovich.

Five world premieres, 34 concerts and 39 musicians make for an illuminating North Queensland chamber music festival.

What do the festivals have on offer in the year ahead?

The culinary icon explains how she was brought up on music and can’t imagine a day without it.

The AFCM’s Festival Finale was a fitting conclusion to the festival, with a pot-pourri of diverse musical pieces to suit all tastes.

An eclectic and quirky mix of musical gems and songs from film scores, offering both serious and light-hearted works, with many delightful moments.

The program’s promise of ‘music out of the blue’ delivered an overwhelmingly melancholic view of the beauty of music, inspired by the power of the oceans.

A beautifully realised Baroque program with two stunning oboe concertos.

Clinton White reports from this year's Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, and talks with AD Jack Liebeck and culinary icon Maggie Beer.