Featuring some of Australia’s finest pianists in a visually immersive performance space, this four-day festival is piano heaven.

From the power of choirs to the power of young people, the Adelaide Festival’s new Artistic Director Ruth Mackenzie shares her thoughts on next year’s program, and the future.

Announcing a new postgraduate program for 2023, Words, Text, Voices, Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music will halt its successful Composing Women program for the foreseeable future. 

The UNSW ensemble offers a season lit up by Bach, Ravel, Westlake and Edwards, with guest performers that loom large in NSW and internationally.

Returning giants, like Garrick Ohlsson, rub shoulders with fresh young talent and artists like Cédric Tiberghien and Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Co-directors Chris Howlett and Howard Penny imbue Victoria's old gold town with the vigour of chamber works both beloved and rediscovered.

From premieres by Carl Vine and Thomas de Hartmann to Catalani’s La Wally and Jakub Józef Orliński’s Polish songs, it's a month of revelation and discovery with these new classical albums.

Music and neuroscience combine in a symphony of philosophical heft and power.

Cameron Lam explores old favourites and new tracks in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

Elena Schwarz led the TSO and mezzo-soprano Dimity Shepherd in an immersive concert that transported its audience to another world.

Shostakovich’s jazzy side leads the field, with ear-ravishing Ravel, Carl Vine’s piano sonatas and Matthias Goerne’s collaboration with Daniil Trifonov in hot pursuit.

Charge your glasses for music that edges us to a more positive future.