This year’s ANAM Quartetthaus season brings Australian and UK string quartets into extreme close-up for a listening experience unlike any other.

A ten-day festival of 56 concerts hosted in an intimate listening room designed specifically for the music played in it.

From sacred music to intimate promises, three touring programs explore the astonishing breadth and diversity of vocal music, across Australia and around the world.

Mary Finsterer's heart-stoppingly beautiful new opera is endlessly absorbing, sonically and visually.

Fascinated by complex musical ideas, Jack Symonds never wants to make work that resembles anything else – whether he’s programming it or writing it himself.

Features include Cate Blanchett on TÁR, Cilea's opera Adriana Lecouvreur, the arts on offer in 2023, philanthropy in Australian arts and the relationship between Noongar artists and Perth Festival.

Launching over 20 world premieres from emerging and established Australian composers, the ensemble touts new music across NSW and Victoria, as well as internationally in Helsinki and Berlin.

The musicians meet the demands of Beethoven and the world premiere of Jack Symonds' challenging String Quartet No 2 with great vitality.

Despite exquisite vocal and musical performances, this staging of Benjamin Britten's Canticles is less than the sum of its otherwise beautiful parts, landing somewhere between performance art and oratorio.

Musicians often find Symonds' music technically difficult to play, but from the first rehearsal, he saw that the ASQ had taken his score "by the scruff of the neck" and that he had no need to worry.

The world premiere of this new Australian opera – a work that prompts dread as well as wonder about humanity's relationship with the natural world – was an enormous triumph, artistically and logistically.

ANAM’s immediate and immersive chamber music experience will take up residence in London’s Royal Albert Hall for a special season in September.