The TSO is honouring its outgoing Managing Director Nicholas Heyward with a new composition prize in his name.

The Slovenian conductor, whose tenure as Chief Conductor finishes in 2018, will return to the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra to conduct orchestral and operatic concerts over the next three years.

In her new work Ruler of the Hive for narrator and orchestra, Melody Eötvös draws on the monologues of Shakespeare's leading 'ladies'.

The Swiss-Australian conductor will lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic in concerts in November and December as part of the orchestra’s mentorship program.

Nothing less than true musicianship from pianist Stephen Hough.

The British pianist is touring Australia, has two CDs on release and has written his first novel. As well as discussing the priesthood, he talks to Limelight about dreams, Debussy, Rachmaninov and rentboys.

In his new concerto for two pianos inspired by James Gleeson’s surrealist art, Carl Vine asks what’s to be done with two heroes?

Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream has enchanted audiences from its first performance. Howard Shelley speaks to Angus McPherson about how ‘the Dream’ was born.

Our next issue includes interviews with AWO guest maestro Riccardo Muti, Marin Alsop on conducting Lenny and Simon Russell Beale on The Death of Stalin.

The long-serving Managing Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra will step down at the end of 2018 after 17 years at the helm.

The “connoisseur’s pianist” talks about the vitality of Beethoven’s music and the concerto that launched the Brazilian pianist’s career at age 12.

Piano concertos rescued from obscurity shine in Shelley’s hands.