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Classical Music, News
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Brett Dean announced as Composer-in-Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic

Dean played with the Philharmoniker as a violist for 14 years. Coming back, he says, "feels like being on home turf".

April 29, 2026
News
news

ANAM celebrates a “short and colourful life”

The Australian National Academy of Music launches a “time capsule” project capturing three decades of institutional life through the voices of those who have shaped it.

April 1, 2026
Classical Music
australian-composers

Australian Composers: D is for D’Netto, Dean & Devenish

Discover the music of Australian composers, from Connor D’Netto to Houston Dunleavy.

October 16, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Festivals
features

A Good Reed

Arriving in Australia this month, British clarinettist Michael Collins chats about his fast-paced career and surviving two terrible setbacks.

June 23, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Jazz, Orchestral
features

Newsworthy: July 2025

A round-up of our recent news reports.

June 23, 2025
Classical Music, News
news

Brett Dean partners with leading German orchestra

Australia's Brett Dean named the new Creative Partner of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, designing concerts set for April 2026.

May 29, 2025
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental
Live Review

Review: Theremin & Beyond (Carolina Eyck and the Australian Chamber Orchestra)

Good, good, good vibrations as theremin star Carolina Eyck and the ACO get on the same wavelength.

May 12, 2025
Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Vocal & Choral
features

The Limelight Artists of the Year for 2024

Our reviewers and readers have voted for the artists who blew them away during the past year. So, who are the winners?

February 24, 2025
Classical Music
features

Listen to the Australian Art Music playlist: January 2025 – Moving Forward

Happy New Year, and welcome back to the Australian Art Music playlist! A monthly playlist of classical, jazz, experimental and electronic music by Australian composers, musicians and sound artists.

January 15, 2025
Classical Music
features

Export quality: Aussie composers taking on the world

Matthew Hindson looks at the "quiet, brilliant" success of Australian composers overseas.

November 5, 2024
Chamber, Classical Music, Instrumental, Opera, Orchestral, Vocal & Choral
features

On the Record: November 2024

This month features a Kurt Weill trifecta, idiomatic Dvořák symphonies from the Czech Phil, a major Joshua Bell rediscovery and a radical take on Mozart’s Requiem.

October 21, 2024
Classical Music, News
news

Three Australian composers up for 2024 Ivors Classical Awards

UK-based Aussies Jane Stanley and Lisa Illean earn first-time Ivors nominations. Can Brett Dean 'three-peat'?

October 16, 2024
Classical Music, Orchestral
CD and Other Review

Review: Dean: Rooms of Elsinore (Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Brett Dean)

Brett Dean proves brevity is the soul of wit in Hamlet-orbiting works.

October 10, 2024

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