For its 33rd season, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra delves into the communicative and connective power of music.

MSO Chief Conductor Jaime Martín’s second season in the job is a wide-ranging campaign for hearts, minds and inflation-weary wallets.

The first year of the Fellowship awards five young musicians professional development and performance opportunities.

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.

Cameron Lam explores choirs new and old, and the music written for them, in this month's Australian Art Music playlist.

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.

Chief Conductor Jaime Martín discusses the season which includes 17 new works, including three by Composer in Residence Mary Finsterer, while soprano Siobhan Stagg is Artist in Residence.

Cameron Lam explores Australian music written for brass instruments, from tubas and trombones, to double bell trumpets and a 19-century ophicleide.

Two superb song cycles by Katy Abbott and Linda Kouvaras formed the core of this concert, both important works that deserve to receive stage time long into the future.

Cameron Lam started out looking at the sky and pondering the stars, but his thoughts quickly turned to contemplations of death, mourning, bird song, and distant landscapes.

An amazing coupling of Katy Abbott and Frederic Rzewski transported its audience to new worlds of possibilities within political commentary, demolishing the old adage that ‘music is beyond politics’. 

The trailblazing Flinders Quartet returns in 2022 with a record eight premieres of new works, and classics from the string quartet repertoire.