Queensland Symphony Orchestra announces 2025 season
Beethoven Five, Mahler Nine, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Stephen Hough are some of QSO’s 2025 players as the orchestra explores spirituality in all of its colours.
Maddy Briggs is a writer, sound designer and composer who works across theatre, screen, dance and video art. Her work has been featured in VIVID Sydney, MUSLAB’s International Electroacoustic Music Festival, SBS on Demand on BBC Music 6. She was also a 2024 Media Fellow with Bang On a Can.
Beethoven Five, Mahler Nine, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Stephen Hough are some of QSO’s 2025 players as the orchestra explores spirituality in all of its colours.
Conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith receives support to bring 'socially-engaged orchestral and operatic models' into the Australian arts.
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The British conductor is back with a new orchestra and choir, which will perform an identical program to the group he stepped away from last year.
Jacques Emery’s 90-minute "deep listening ritual" creates a lavish world of sound with only two-note chords.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard booked for a Singapore season, with Sarah Brightman making her Asian theatrical debut as Norma Desmond.
A tuba player and experienced arts manager, Michael Sterzinger leaves his Executive Director role at Camerata to return to QSO.
Violinist and TikTok sensation Esther Abrami denied boarding unless she checked her 200-year old Vuillaume instrument – or left it behind.
Hand to Earth, ZÖJ, Cheryl Durongpisitkul and Theo Carbo among the Victorian music-makers recognised for their artistry.
Five performances, four world premieres, and esteemed guest artists; the MCO explores the "poetry of music" in 2025.
The Fritzi Trio, with members from NSW and Victoria, takes away the $5,000 main prize presented at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
After its impact was heard around the world, the solo piano work is now available on Bandcamp with proceeds donated to Gaza refugees.
Two world premieres, canon classics and the 10-year anniversary of a beloved production: TAB strikes the balance between new and old.