The number of Australians with their sights set on an international conducting career hasn’t changed, but their success rate is down. Why?

As four Australian orchestras prepare to perform his music, we trace Bruckner's career, along with his obsessions and oddities.

The 20-year-old rising star earned $35,000 in prizes and a concerto engagement with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

Restoring the mythic nature of Virgil’s epic to Purcell's Baroque masterpiece, Yaron Lifschitz sets a new benchmark for opera production in Australia.

Rich and strange music for an imaginary film leads to Brahms from a different perspective.

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

Cameron Lam tries his hand at an Australian-only answer to this year’s ABC’s Classic 100 theme: Feel Good, in this month’s Australian Art Music playlist.

"Inaction equates to complicity": Orchestras move even further away from equal representation, as shown by the latest analysis from Donne, Women in Music.

Having perfected the formula for its annual festival, Opera Queensland ups the ante with its most sophisticated program to date.

A laudable theatrical-musical experiment in presenting the classics but this was the very definition of a mixed bag.

A captivating musical tribute to begin the final week of the year-long celebration of St Stephen’s 150th anniversary.

Year 11 violinist Eric Kim earns an opportunity to perform with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in its 2025 season.