The vivacious concert brought together many of Sydney's leading percussionists in a program that celebrated successive generations of Synergy, Taikoz and their offshoots.

The Festival celebrates Australia's emerging and eminent female-led jazz with an exciting new program and some heavyweight headliners.

Festival Director Ian Cleworth discusses the inaugural BOOM! International Festival of Percussion, which celebrates percussive beats across the spectrum from cutting-edge art music to Afro-Latin.

Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival was a tribute to the transformative power of living new music, and sent the audience home grinning.

With a program boasting Beethoven, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov and five world premieres from Australian composers, Chief Conductor Jessica Cottis and the CSO paint a colourful portrait in their 2023 season Chroma.

Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.

Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival Listen Up! features the Australian Art Orchestra, Allara and Eric Avery in a program of electrifying new music by living composers.

Paul Stanhope, Olivia Davies, Liza Lim and the Australian Art Orchestra are among the winners at this year's Art Music Awards, presented at the first in-person ceremony in two years.

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The six month-long program features a generous collection of Australian and international artists, 17 premieres of new works and a broad variety of genres.

The world’s biggest classical music conference celebrates “forward-thinking” project championing Australian Indigenous composers.

Backstage Music returns for a 2022-23 concert series, showcasing diverse talents across various genres and styles.