Jessica Cottis inspires orchestra and audience alike in an accomplished concert unified by themes of friendship.

In 2025, Australian orchestras performed female composers more than Bach, Beethoven and Mozart combined. Hannah Lee Tungate walks us through the stats.

Sunny Kim and Hilary Kleinig explain how their new chamber work for Canberra Symphony Orchestra was born out of improvisation.

What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

The ANU School of Music will continue in its current form and welcome a brand-new performance hub in 2026.

Featuring superstar Aussie soloists, large-scale orchestral gems and home-grown music, this year's season is inspired by interconnectedness.

Thoughtfully transmitted, thoroughly immersive and fittingly beguiling – all at once.

What is synaesthesia? How does it manifest itself in music makers and their listeners? We talk to a leading expert and musicians to find out.

Artistic forces successfully marshalled in a poignant and musically powerful commemorative concert.

ANU proposes that Canberra's 60-year-old music school be reduced to a program within a new School of Creative and Cultural Practice. Jobs will go.

Peggy Polias takes us inside her new orchestral work – a melody-driven meta piece, which plays with the mathematical idea of self-similarity.

What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?