Your essential coast-to-coast guide to the Australian music being played on our concert stages this month.

Simone Slattery and Anthony Albrecht discuss The Bowerbird Collective's Melbourne debut at Elizabeth Murdoch Hall, featuring a cinematic ode to the evolution of song.

Ahead of his tour with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Italian baritone Renato Dolcini reflects on his passion for Baroque music and his collaboration with William Christie.

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Eddy Chen and Brett Yang have become YouTube sensations as TwoSet Violin, taking classical music to new audiences through their tongue-in-cheek videos.

Ahead of her title-role debut in Opera Australia’s The Merry Widow, soprano Emma Pearson tells us why operetta deserves pride of place alongside opera.

At this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music, a concert inspired by Horrible Histories will explore the demise of several composers.

Yve Blake chats about her reimagining of Macbeth for Bell Shakespeare, starring a 13-year-old TV star with a cut-throat stage mum.

Samuel Cairnduff explores how political pressure, weak leadership and funding models are reshaping what Australian arts organisations dare to do.

The award-winning comedian, singer and writer discusses his debut program as Artistic Director of this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival.

Steve Dow talks with actors Googoorewon Knox and Guy Simon, and playwright Jane Harrison about her new play Bennelong in London.

Anne Cawrse knew little about Louis XIV when she was approached about turning Kathryn Purnell’s epic poem about the Sun King into a song cycle. Ahead of the work’s premiere at the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s She Speaks festival, she explains why she said yes.

Currently Head of Music Education at Penrith Conservatorium of Music in NSW, the multi-instrumentalist, neuroscientist, lifelong learner and self-confessed over-committer discusses his fascinating journey and belief that music can change lives.

Soon to play with the Australian World Orchestra, Linda Stuckey, Associate Principal Piccolo with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, explains why the piccolo is such a dangerous instrument.

Paolo Hooke talks to composer Alex Chilvers, pipa player Lulu Liu and harpsichordist Anthony Abouhamad about Tang Suite, a new work inspired by ancient pipa manuscripts discovered in China’s Mogao Caves.

British viola virtuoso Lawrence Power chats with Steve Dow about Isles of Light, the concert he has programmed, directs and performs in for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and why he believes there’s such a strong viola tradition in the British Isles.