Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton discusses his world premiere for Queensland Symphony Orchestra and his performances at Illuminate Adelaide and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music.

The classical nominees at this year's AIR Awards are Andrew Blanch and Ariel Nurhadi, Ensemble Offspring, Richard Tognetti and the ACO, Jayson Gillham and the ASO, and Joseph and James Tawadros and the SSO.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's programming continues with larger-scale music-making and a mix of old and new.

Benjamin Northey and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra present an incredible exhibition of virtuosic mastery.

Soul-baring Sibelius works its magic in a dynamic performance by the SSO.

Two concertos composed a century apart resonate with each other.

Features this month explore the redevelopment of Adelaide's Her Majesty's Theatre, Margaret Sutherland's Violin Concerto, Andrew Ford's Red Dirt Hymns project, and the musical Hamilton.

Yvonne Frindle investigates why Margaret Sutherland's forward-looking orchestral composition has been so unjustly ignored.

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

Asher Fisch returns to lead a bold and diverse season that relies on WASO’s own musicians.

A series of newly commissioned concertos written for members of the orchestra are amongst the highlights of the MSO’s first six months back on stage after the COVID-19 shutdowns.

As ABC Classic releases his Concerto for Oud and Orchestra, recorded live with the Sydney Symphony, Joseph Tawadros explains his love for the instrument, and how the composition was born.