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The King’s Birthday Honours 2025

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, composer Iain Grandage and Canberra Symphony Concertmaster Kirsten Williams among this year's recipients.

June 10, 2025
Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Winter Dreams (Canberra Symphony Orchestra)

Winter in Canberra seems more memory than dream these days but this was an imaginative and satisfying experience.

August 18, 2023
Chamber, Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Canberra Symphony Orchestra announces 2024 season

CSO 2024 delves into the human connection with the surrounding world while platforming a major Mahler work and five world premieres.

August 16, 2023
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: Electric Blue (Canberra Symphony Orchestra)

Canberra Symphony Orchestra unpacks all shades of blue in a concert bursting with musical colour and intensity.

April 27, 2023
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Canberra Symphony Orchestra announces inaugural Kingsland Fellows

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

March 15, 2023
Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Canberra Symphony Orchestra announces its 2023 season

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.

September 7, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Orchestral
news

Alice Waten has died

One of Australia’s foremost violin pedagogues, who was a founding member of the ACO, has died at the age of 75, leaving behind a formidable legacy.

August 3, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Music by Cyrus Meurant (Cyrus Meurant)

Composer Cyrus Meurant did not disappoint when he returned to the stage to perform his music with Andrew Smith and Kirsten Williams, in a display of artistic tenderness.

May 31, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: Miracles in the Age of Reason (Canberra Symphony Orchestra)

Benjamin Bayl leads Canberra Symphony Orchestra through a beautiful selection of baroque, and baroque-inspired, masterpieces.

May 20, 2022
Chamber, Classical Music
Live Review

Review: Stargazers (Canberra Symphony Orchestra Chamber Ensemble)

Canberra Symphony Orchestra's Chamber Ensemble looks to the stars in their first performance of 2022.

April 8, 2022
Classical Music, Light Classics
Live Review

Review: CSO at the Cinema (Canberra Symphony Orchestra)

It was all firing rockets, flashing light sabres and tooting old-fashioned French car horns in this sold-out Canberra Symphony Orchestra concert.

August 9, 2021
Classical Music
news

Canberra Symphony announces new youth chamber orchestra program

Canberra Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra (CSYCO) will be led by CSO concertmaster Kirsten Williams.

August 2, 2021
Classical Music, Orchestral
Live Review

Review: Classic Afternoon: The Elements (Canberra Symphony Orchestra)

This was an elegant, well-programmed concert by Canberra Symphony Orchestra, with the world premiere of Kim Cunio's CO2 and the Ice Core the clear highlight.

June 21, 2021

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