The Quartet will tour brand new works by Anne Cawrse and Ross Edwards next year, alongside collaborations with Sydney Dance Company and experience design company Sandpit.

The composer shares the story behind his new work for the Australian String Quartet, a “shrine in music” to the memory of his late sister Kate.

Luthiers have been making top-notch string instruments in Italy for centuries. Janet Wilson visits Roberto Cavagnoli in his Cremona studio where he is making copies of the Australian String Quartet’s original Guadagninis. She also asks some of the Australian musicians who play ‘Golden Age’ strings, what makes these highly prized (and pricey) instruments so special?

This issue includes features on Léo Delibes' Sylvia, Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony, Golden Age string instruments, and composers Schumann and John Kander.

Australian String Quartet violist Stephen King on making music part of everyday culture, playing in the dark, and the acoustic properties of a skateboard half pipe.

Beethoven, Brahms, and a new quartet worthy of serious buzz.

Highlights include a new work by Jessica Wells, a choir of thousands, and the return of a revamped Opera at Jimbour.

Cicada song is a vividly Australian sound. Kate Moore tells us how these ‘little stringed instruments’ inspired her new work for the Australian String Quartet.

Featuring Ute Lemper, requiems, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, ZOFO's new Pictures at an Exhibition, the Bolshoi Ballet and the AWO's Alexander Briger.

We finish our round up of the shows that excited us most in 2018 with a look at dance.

Two wildly different works, with live music by the Australian String Quartet in one, make for a thrilling ride.

Rafael Bonachela and Dale Barltrop discuss the Australian String Quartet's collaboration with Sydney Dance Company on a Bryce Dessner score.