Chinese Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin's finely-nuanced performance almost lifts the roof off the Concert Hall.

A young Australian is one of 12 competitors set to perform a solo recital and chamber program for the competition's penultimate round.

Chinese-Australian cellist Li-Wei Qin is as suave and fluent a cellist as one could wish for in music such as Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1.

An exploration of symphonic form, and a magnificent Li-Wei Qin cello concerto performance, beneath a wintry night sky.

What do our orchestras and choirs have on offer in the year ahead?

Simone Young discusses the highlights of her second “theatrical” year as the SSO’s Chief Conductor, including several works she will conduct for the first time in her celebrated career.

Highlights include Stephen Hough and the ASO performing all of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra, world premieres by Elena Kats-Chernin, Anne Cawrse and Grayson Rotumah, and the arrival of new Concertmaster Kate Suthers.

The MSO ushers in the Year of the Tiger with a roar, in a joyous concert.

Bernard Lanskey has been announced as the new Director of Queensland Conservatorium after working in Singapore for 15 years.

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's programming continues with larger-scale music-making and a mix of old and new.

Baritone Thomas Hampson returns to the venue’s concert series, alongside Nicola Benedetti, Ingrid Fliter and James Ehnes – who celebrates Beethoven’s birthday with a violin sonata cycle.

Nicholas Carter’s final year as Principal Conductor features a world premiere for Pinchas Zukerman’s 70th birthday, and Jayson Gillham playing five Beethoven piano concertos.