In this month's features we talk to Barrie Kosky about The Golden Cockerel, run an extract by Leigh Sales from the book Well Hello, explore the role of music reviewers today, and examine the pleasures and perils of writing music for the screen.

Affectionately known as ‘Tipi’, Timo Veikko-Valve is Principal Cello at the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He picked up the instrument to fill the family piano trio, and because a teacher once declared “he looks like a cellist”.

Few performances of Schubert's 'Trout' come close to this hour-long slice of heaven from the Australian Chamber Orchestra. 

The 2021 Utzon Music season at the Sydney Opera House features beloved classics by Beethoven and Clara Schumann as well as new works by First Nations artists.

Sublime music, sublimely played by Tognetti & Co.

With Richard Tognetti and his players embracing change, Bach and the Beyond certainly feels like a taste of things to come.

The program under new Creative Director Lindy Hume includes local Yuin artists, cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, the SSO 2020 Fellows, Sydney Dance Company, and Compassion by Nigel Westlake and Lior.

Across five tours, Selby & Friends welcomes back plenty of old friends in new combinations to perform music from Joaquín Turina to Joan Tower.

Kathryn Selby and friends offer a delightful, intimate Beethoven celebration in an empty City Recital Hall.

A very rare afternoon of truly eloquent chamber music performances at the UKARIA Cultural Centre.

The Sydney Opera House’s chamber series will span Estonian song to music from across Africa and James Ehnes’ Beethoven Violin Sonata cycle next year.

Richard Tognetti and Timo-Veikko Valve showed fine teamwork in Brahms' Double Concerto, while Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony was charming.