The ANAM Set will see 67 Australian composers write six-minute works for 67 ANAM musicians. Pairing them will be like a Tetris game, but exciting, says Creative Coordinator Leigh Harrold.
Cameron Lam spotlights the flute in his latest playlist of new Australian music.
Denmark-based Australian cellist presents dark works perfect for 2020.
Neil Armfield’s staging of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will headline.
Brett Dean leads the way with evocations of otherworldly visitations.
Greater diversity in revamped categories sees the established go head-to-head with the up-and-coming.
This week's highlights include Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Australian World Orchestra and Simone Young conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Things are impermanent, life is impermanent, but music and the arts are lasting joys.
The German violinist is in self-quarantine, but has positive messages for her fans.
Authorities have described the case, which saw an audience member diagnosed with the coronavirus after Saturday’s Absolute Beethoven concert, as “low risk” for other patrons and staff.
An engrossing lesson in the historical and musical significance of Beethoven’s Eroica symphony in the composer’s 250th year.
The composer and violist has withdrawn from his upcoming engagement at the Adelaide Festival after being hospitalised with the coronavirus.
Beethoven shouldered his fair share of emotional vicissitudes over a lifetime, but his last twelve months were among the most trying of all. Clive Paget looks at the triumphs and the tragedies of the composer’s final year, while Brett Dean reflects on two of his own works that have been inspired by Beethoven’s complicated states of mind.
