Virginia Lloyd spent her youth at the piano, but drifted away in adulthood. Revisiting the instrument in her new memoir, she discusses women pianists, from her grandmother to the likes of Clara Schumann and the heroines of Jane Austen.

Blazey Best gives a heart-on-her-sleeve performance in a show that doesn't shrink away from the gritty realities of vaudeville and burlesque.

Researchers in Taiwan used speech analysis techniques to explain the distinctive brilliance of the famous Italian violins.

We talk to the Australian violinist, who won the ABC Young Performers Award at 16, about coming home for a string of concerts and debuts.

Smith has been awarded the $25,000 Fellowship, while Kim Ho has taken out the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award.

Joined by some international guests, the ARCO Chamber Soloists show us just what period instruments are capable of.

Nakkiah Lui's ferocious new comedy will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.

The Grammy award-winning vocalist explains how growing up on a diet of Bach and Brahms set him up for a career singing jazz.

A bassoonist, practising outside a church having arrived early for rehearsal, was approached by police after a concerned citizen called 911.

The composer and double bassist has taken out the $5000 prize, which will see his work performed by the Willoughby Symphony Orchestra.

Her fifth painting in the Archibald Prize, Coppersmith's Self-Portrait, after George Lambert has won the country’s most popular portrait award.

The photographer, whose images will be familiar to anyone who’s been to a Musica Viva concert, takes us behind the scenes in a new exhibition