For 2026, co-Artistic Directors Melissa Doecke and Ben Opie have cultivated a festival with deep roots into the Country it stands on.

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Ella Macens explains how her new work for the Australian Haydn Ensemble shines a light on one of classical music’s most enduring romantic mysteries.

From the conductor’s podium to opera’s power plays, November’s Limelight captures the people shaping Australia’s musical, operatic and theatrical future.

Discover the music of Australian composers, from Ella Macens to Ken Murray.

From the conductor’s podium to opera’s power plays, November’s Limelight captures the people shaping Australia’s musical, operatic and theatrical future.

Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.

The first evening of MSO’s Composing Australia series offered a thrilling and diverse survey of Australia’s art music world.

Cameron Lam’s monthly Australian Art Music playlist once again features the piano, both solo and in ensembles across Classical, Jazz, and Sound Art.

Liza Lim talks to Maddy Briggs about her curatorial vision for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 Metropolis Festival.

Composer Ella Macens to create a new work for AHE and help foster new talent in the ensemble's Emerging Composers Workshops.

Omega celebrates its milestone with a host of world premiere works, internationally regarded collaborators and a refreshed "vision for the future".