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Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto (Steven Isserlis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra)

Cellist Steven Isserlis demonstrates what a consummate artist’s total commitment to a composer's vision looks and sounds like.

October 4, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces 2025 season

Beethoven Five, Mahler Nine, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Stephen Hough are some of QSO’s 2025 players as the orchestra explores spirituality in all of its colours.

September 14, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Orchestral
features

Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist – September 2024: New Releases

Cameron Lam brings a plethora of new Classical, Jazz and Sound Art releases in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.

September 11, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Orchestral
features

The Long Climb to the Podium

The number of Australians with their sights set on an international conducting career hasn’t changed, but their success rate is down. Why?

August 19, 2024
Classical Music
news

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra launches 2025 season

Mahler’s Resurrection, superstars Lang Lang and Joyce DiDonato and a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth in the mix for MSO 2025.

July 17, 2024
Audiovisual, Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Jazz, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
news

Finalists for the 2024 Art Music Awards announced

Composers Elena Kats-Chernin, Elliott Gyger, Cheryl Durongpisitkul and Mindy Meng Wang among this year's finalists.

July 11, 2024
Classical Music
news

MSO Annual Report reveals record year at box office

The second year of MSO Chief Conductor Jaime Martín's stewardship one of "great joy" and strong audience engagement.

May 10, 2024
Classical Music
features

Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: May 2024 – Slow, Steady & Spacious

Cameron Lam slows down and settles in to ponder the collection of Classical, Jazz and Sound Art in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.

May 8, 2024
Classical Music
news

Voting opens for 2024’s ABC Classic 100

For this year's Classic 100 poll, ABC Classic asks Australians to fight for their favourite feel-good hits.

May 6, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Orchestral, Theatre
features

Newsworthy: May 2024

A round-up of our recent news reports.

April 22, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Jaime Martín and Benjamin Northey to stay with MSO for another five years

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has extended the tenures of two of its most popular figureheads until 2028.

March 21, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Jazz, Opera, Orchestral
features

Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: March 2024 – Five Years

Cameron Lam celebrates five years of curating the Australian Art Music playlist featuring music across Classical, Jazz and Sound Art.

March 7, 2024
Opera
Live Review

Review: Candide (Victorian Opera)

This musically and visually delightful production of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta kicks off a new era for Victorian Opera.

February 9, 2024

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