Is musical talent genetic?
Does practice make perfect? A new study examines whether we’re born musical, or whether we have musical ability thrust upon us.
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.
Does practice make perfect? A new study examines whether we’re born musical, or whether we have musical ability thrust upon us.
The English conductor has withdrawn from all 2023 performances after a reported assault on an English singer.
Restless Dance Theatre and Riverside Theatres recognised as performing arts pioneers with two of PAC Australia's highest honours.
The Festival's 10th year is celebrated with a string of prolific Australian female writers across fiction, non-fiction, stage and screen.
For its 18th season, Kathryn Selby welcomes back Australian musicians she calls old friends, including the Goldner String Quartet for its final season.
Composer Patrick Grant created International Strange Music Day to spread a simple message: listen without prejudice.
Six composers will take part in the inaugural Emerge program, where each will write a new work to be performed and filmed by the Flinders Quartet.
The “media industry giant” will not extend her term as ABC Chair, adding that she is “honoured” to have served in the position since 2019.
Caerwen Martin's first Sinfonia, written for Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, was like "letting out a long-held secret".
Conductor Rick Prakhoff and violist George Deutsch reveal ambitious plan for the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra’s 90th birthday.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
WASO raises the roof of Perth Concert Hall before it closes for renovations with a mammoth Mahler, a string of guest stars and five world premieres.
The magazine will cease production after 87 years in a "streamline" of operations in the Metropolitan Opera Guild.