Perfect coherence and technical accomplishment set this performance at the pinnacle of the string quartet form.

Nicole Car, Siobhan Stagg and Claire Edwardes among this year's nominees. Winners to be revealed in October in Brisbane.

This year, the Takács Quartet turns 50, while Musica Viva Australia turns 80. Both of their histories include musicians forced to flee from oppression.

Violinist and composer Jane Aubourg to air a major solo work in Berlin's annual new music expo.

When the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra talked to Elena Kats-Chernin about performing Fast Blue Village, she decided to revisit and refresh it.

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

Every Brahms symphony, every Beethoven piano concerto and a Stephen Hough world premiere in Mark Wigglesworth's first program at the ASO.

Paul Kildea celebrates MVA's monumental 80th birthday with eight tours, 15 international artists and "enormous gratitude".

The global panel of experts will accept proposals for the 12th edition of the music conference, held in Berlin next May.

Violist Henry Justo has won the $21,000 Fellowship, which will help him develop a new collaborative installation work.

The Orchestra will tour with three historically-informed mainstage performances across Australia's east coast, as well as a program that blends classical music with contemporary Australian practice.

Simone Young leads the SSO and three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn in a triumphant program of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and a world premiere by Cathy Milliken.