Sydney artist Loribelle Spirovski wins 2025 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award with a fingerpainted portrait of Elena Kats-Chernin.

“Lower your guard,” says incoming Artistic Director Matthew Lutton, heralding the return of Peter Sellars and contemporary music.

Meg Washington and Josten Myburgh to take up 12-month residencies offered by the Peggy Glanville-Hicks Composers House Trust.

Discover the music of Australian composers, from John Babbage to Stephen Byth.

Sydney Dance Company’s Continuum includes a new work choreographed by Stephen Page to music by William Barton. We find out how it came about.

Season highlights include a new collaboration with Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Australian premiere of Justin Peck’s Copland Dance Episodes.

The SSO's season finale was always a given, says Chief Conductor Simone Young. The opener a flash of inspiration. And in between? All kinds of surprises.

Are Australian orchestras and musical institutions genuinely embracing Indigenous voices?

A round-up of our recent news reports.

Australia's William Barton, rising German flute player Meret Louisa Vogel and Canadian piano star Avan Yu are on the guest list.

"A most beautiful reprieve and reward", Loribelle Spirovski's finger-painted portrait of William Barton goes over big with the public.

Véronique Serret and William Barton, JADE Ensemble, bluesman C.W. Stoneking and Scottish techno star Franck among the headliners.