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

An audience well and truly transfigured by a night at the Opera House.

The Blue Mountains festival goes from strength to strength with three premieres and an all-star lineup including Reginald Mobley, Lior and Nigel Westlake.

International rising stars Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and Ignas Maknickas to perform exclusively. Soprano Alexandra Flood among the Australian talent to shine.

The Chroma and Affinity Quartets, Timo-Veikko Valve and Aura Go, and a special event in the Hunter Valley mark 81 years of fine music.

This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.

Lerida Delbridge presents her first Hunters Hill Music Series, one that promises to be "inclusive and unifying".

Australian String Quartet says it beautifully with flowers in a late-blooming close to the season.

ANAM has announced the 20 composers commissioned to write works for its third-year students and create a rich addition to the Australian music canon.

By turns muscular and tender, Umberto Clerici and the QSO deliver a triumphant Mahler 6.

Justin Williams discusses his First Symphony, which the Queensland Symphony Orchestra will debut alongside Mahler’s Symphony No. 6.

Saving the best for last, this year’s festival rings down the curtain with a world premiere and a moody reading of Schubert’s Octet.