Melbourne Chamber Orchestra reveals 2025 season
Five performances, four world premieres, and esteemed guest artists; the MCO explores the "poetry of music" in 2025.
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.
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.
The music notation software reaches its end bar line after 35 years and points to Dorico as its successor.
Annette Downs, Geelong Arts Centre, BlakDance, Legs on the Wall and Adelaide Festival among those recognised for excellence in performing arts.
Australians are making waves in the international new music scene, as seen in Bang on a Can’s Summer Festival earlier this month.
Five young classical and opera singers in the running for prizes including the $30,000 Marianne Mathy Scholarship.
The three-day Power Up festival hosts a lineup of local artists including Josh Pyke, Sydney Youth Orchestras and Legs on the Wall.
Founded by oboist Tania Frazer, Collectivo will draw from a pool of national and international talent.
Female and gender-diverse talent cleans up at this year's awards, with Sally Whitwell, Genevieve Lacey, Mary Finsterer and Mindy Meng Wang among the winners.
The pianist has been removed from an upcoming performance for 'introductory remarks' to a piece dedicated to journalists killed in Gaza.
Ahead of a new tour, ARCO's Nicole van Bruggen talks Haydn, a new work for basset clarinet, and "working our way out of this pigeonhole".