Joy unconfined as Simone Young brings SSO’s season to a spectacular close.

Discover the 25 tracks that make up our playlist of Australia's favourite art music.

Nominations for Limelight’s 2025 Artists of the Year have been extended to Monday 3 November, 8:59am AEDT. Have your say before entries close.

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.