Stuart Skelton, STC's The Harp in the South, Carl Vine, Dame Joan Hammond, and orchestras on the fringe who are thriving.

David Berthold has divided this year's program into three acts, with highlights including Peter Grimes, Memorial and QSO's Symphony For Me.

In the Festival’s third year, the Omega Ensemble are the performers in residence, joining a bill that includes Ray Chen, Tamara-Anna Cislowska and Deborah Humble.

James Crabb is set to open his first Festival as Artistic Director, which includes everything from Chopin to wind harps to music theatre.

Baltic is definitely beautiful, but is it all-too-easy listening?

The Australian flautist’s 2018 series at The Concourse will feature Australian artists Tamara-Anna Cislowska, Taryn Fiebig, Nexas Quartet and more.

Slava Grigoryan and ABC Music's labels dominate the nominations, while a Kate Miller-Heidke inclusion raises eyebrows.

Profound sincerity and understated simplicity that touches the spirit.

Jack Liebeck, Ariel Zuckermann, Emma Pearson and Tamara-Anna Cislowska among the guests at next year’s festival. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Kats-Chernin and Cislowska re-team in dreamy homage to Satie.

Listening to music and the spaces in between at Dark Mofo.

Editor’s Choice: Instrumental, August 2016 Among the 31 (mostly) short pieces on Butterflying is Lullaby for Nick, an adult embellishment of Elena Kats-Chernin’s first composition, written at age six. Lyrical and wistful, it is a fascinating early manifestation of the prodigious talent that developed into the powerhouse that she is today. This new double CD is a selection of music composed for her first instrument and love, piano, and on which she teams up with a fellow virtuoso who also began her musical career as a child prodigy. Tamara-Anna Cislowska gave her first public performance at two, playing Bartók, commenced studies at the Sydney Conservatorium at six and won the ABC Young Performer Award in 1991 at 14, the youngest ever winner. Although Cislowska’s repertoire spans five centuries, she has come to be particularly associated with contemporary Australian composers, winning an ARIA Award in 2015 for her ABC recording of Peter Sculthorpe’s Complete Works for Solo Piano. Ten years in the making, that project involved extensive collaboration between performer and composer; so too did Butterflying. In Cislowska, Kats-Chernin has found the perfect transmitter and musical partner who combines technical prowess with a particular depth of… Continue reading Get unlimited digital…