Australian Youth Orchestra appoints new CEO
"In tune with the AYO and our mission." Pianist, conductor and educator Kimbali Harding takes over the reins of the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Jason joined the Limelight team in early 2023 as Digital Editor. He has served as Arts Editor of Sydney City Hub, editor of AUSTAR magazine, an online producer at Fairfax, and has reviewed theatre for The Sun-Herald (2006-2009), The Sydney Morning Herald (2009-2017), The Saturday Paper and Guardian Australia. He was co-founder/co-editor of the audreyjournal platform from 2017–22 and Publications Manager for the 2022 Sydney Film Festival.
"In tune with the AYO and our mission." Pianist, conductor and educator Kimbali Harding takes over the reins of the Australian Youth Orchestra.
The inaugural Vibrating Air chamber series at Monash University Performing Arts Centres will range across genres and cultures.
In the seventh annual Lysicrates Prize, three writers will present the first act of a new play to a live audience who then vote for their favourite.
The British jazz star Tony Coe, famous as the instrumental voice of The Pink Panther movies, has died.
This month’s performance highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
Bill Nighy portrays a terminally ill civil servant in a poignant remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru.
A new and city-specific adaptation of Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical operetta skewers the Australian housing crisis.
Ahead of his first dates in Australia as a solo composer-pianist, Stephan Moccio unpacks the songs and the music that moves him most.
Despite Western Sydney being home to 50% of Sydney residents, the region receives less than 3.5% of state cultural infrastructure funding.
Though she never pursued a musical career, Louise Hanson-Dyer's patronage and passion has had a lasting effect.
Mat Watson's idiosyncratic approach to electronic performance, composition and improvisation is rooted in the landscapes of his childhood.
Trans-Mediterranean cultures meet in an absolute tonic of a show from the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the brothers Tawadros.
OA and VO to present an epic staging of Mozart’s Idomeneo for three performances at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda.