A round-up of our recent news reports.

Nicholas Vines' winning work shows "an extremely high level of craft" and will be premiered by UNSW's Corde in October.

The much-lauded saxophone quartet celebrates its second decade with concerts featuring Ravel, Debussy, Jennifer Higdon, Lyle Chan and Nicholas Vines among other composers.

Three young composers describe the new works they have written as part of Artology's 2021 Fanfare competition, which will be performed along with nine other fanfares in Brisbane this week.

Eight young composers will have their fanfare recorded and broadcast at venues around Australia, while another 16 will see their work performed at a concert at QPAC.

Now in its sixth year, Fanfare offers a unique opportunity for budding young composers from 12 to 21.

The eight young winners will have their compositions workshopped and recorded by the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Experimental opera on ancient principles from Oz composer.

The orchestra turns two with an inventive, collaborative new season, featuring special guests including Anna Da Silva Chen and Umberto Clerici.

Six of Sydney's brightest young musicians discuss the perks and pitfalls of the profession with Richard Gill.

If you’ve taken a look at its hideous cover art, and somehow managed to avoid having its offensively kitschy image burned permanently onto your retinas, and similarly survived a read-through of the tedious booklet without lapsing into a word-induced coma, you might finally get around to listening to the music contained in Nicholas Vines’ album, Torrid Nature Scenes. And you might even discover that, despite the visual signs to the contrary, this young Australian composer’s music is surprisingly good – damn good, in fact. The collection comprises three of his recent chamber pieces, The Butcher of Brisbane, The Economy of Wax and Torrid Nature Scene, performed by the splendidly named American new music ensemble Callithumpian Consort and soloists. All three works are rich in atmospheric soundscapes, gestural impact, complex rhythmic overlaying, and fresh thematic ideas. Particularly impressive is the album’s title work, Torrid Nature Scene, for solo soprano, mezzo-soprano and chamber group. Described in typically vivid language in the booklet as “a squelchy, romping obscenity” (sigh), the seven-movement work plays as an inverted pastorale. Bawdy neo-Shakespearian poetry by Andrew Robbie is set to music that captivates from beginning to end, bathing us in ever-evolving textures, and steering us through a……