The Australian Festival of Chamber Music, the OA Sydney winter season, and the Bangalow Music Festival are among the numerous cancellations as COVID restrictions remain in place in NSW and Victoria.

The centrepiece of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's 2021 season, Part 2, is the ambitious, new Festival of Orchestra in November/December.

Not your usual swansong: Andrew Schultz celebrates the maali, Perth's black swans.

Simone Young breathes plenty of life into familiar repertoire in this belated birthday celebration.

Simone Young offers up a feast for the musically starved in the SSO's return to the stage.

CEO Emma Dunch introduces the shorter than usual program, which features 19 in-demand Australian soloists and conductors, and 15 Australian world premieres from the 50 Fanfares project.

Simone Young, tenor Paul Tabone, and Royal Ballet stars Leanne Benjamin and Steven McRae are among the Australians appearing in live streamed performances to support the Tait Emergency Relief Fund.

This week's highlights include Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Australian World Orchestra and Simone Young conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Daniel Carter, a protégé of Simone Young and Richard Gill, has been announced as the new General Music Director of the German house.

Discover our readers' and critics' favourite artists of 2019, learn about Beethoven's final tempestuous year, and celebrate Musica Viva as it turns 75.

Simone Young will take up the position in 2022 as the orchestra returns to the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall following its two-year upgrade.

Simone Young proves a masterful storyteller in Mahler’s epic fairy tale cantata.