The five emerging conductors will be awarded a $30,000 stipend each and opportunities at the podium in front of Australia's six state orchestras across the two-year program.

New Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici reveals his first season, which is full of exciting connections and narrative themes, and includes the start of a Mahler cycle – with a twist.

Surveying 111 orchestras across 31 countries, including Australia, the report found that only 7.7 percent of works programmed in 2021–2022 were by women composers.

After a 22-year tenure as Concertmaster, Warwick Adeney will step down from the role to pursue teaching and music-making more broadly.

This double bill featuring an opera by Poulenc and a new Australian work, conceived by Ali McGregor with a score by Connor D'Netto, is captivating, intelligent, theatrical and emotional.

There have been so many deluges when he conducts outdoors that Guy Noble is beginning to wonder if he has rain-making powers. As for the bugs he encounters, just open his scores.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov shone in duet with the QSO in Rachmanimov’s Concerto No 2 for Piano and Orchestra, while ancient landscapes came to life in Lachlan Skipworth’s Hinterland.

Venues like intervals as they make money from the bar sales, but should performers be forced into having one if it interrupts the natural flow of the show?

This musical program of mixed works had its moments but lacked the essential ingredients for a genuinely magical celebration.

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

Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s celebratory event features works by Tchaikovsky, Respighi, Sean O'Boyle and Craig Allister Young among others, with Guy Noble and Johannes Fritzsch on the podium.