Greater diversity in revamped categories sees the established go head-to-head with the up-and-coming.

The US-based Australian composer takes home $10,000 as the winner of the inaugural Monash International Women’s Day Composition Commission Prize.

Soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham is one of a number of exciting appointments at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, which, as Head of School Professor Cat Hope explains, is looking to the future of music in Australia.

While the list of finalists this year included several newcomers, the night largely belonged to established voices and previous award winners.

The University’s Faculty of Arts is investing in new appointments, and is seeking recruits.

The arts play a crucial role in questioning and shaping cultural norms and attitudes. In this time of tectonic social change, we need to reconsider what opera can be in the 21st century says Sally Blackwood.

Sonic sophistication from French-Australian collaboration.

The inaugural Women in Music Festival will take place over two days in Melbourne, on a site that became a focal point for women’s suffrage, while ABC Classic celebrates International Women's Day on the airwaves.

Professor Cat Hope examines gender equality and empowerment in Australian music culture in this year's Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address.

The composer and Head of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music will examine gender equality and empowerment in the 2018 address.

Two new Australian operas, an Estonian choir, the eight-hour theatrical tour-de-force Gatz and a host of "Made in WA" productions feature.

More than half the grants awarded to individual artists have gone to women.