Sophie Rowell discusses her inaugural season as Artistic Director of MCO, which includes world premieres by Caerwen Martin, Lior and Ade Vincent, as well as a focus on local talent and female composers.

The chamber music ensemble's 17th season is its most ambitious to date, as it brings together familiar and fresh faces for its five tours around the country.

Inspired by an icy trek through Europe's largest glacier, composer Morgan Hickinbotham will transform an existing experimental soundscape into a performance for a vocal ensemble during his residency.

Alberts unveils a national music education initiative in support of young Australians and their wellbeing, with special guests at the launch including Peter Garrett, Anita Collins and Zoë Barry.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre unite with 16 other music organisations in a cry for the development of a national music development agency to provide strength, security and sustainability for Australia's contemporary music scene.

Bell Shakespeare celebrates the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s First Folio with contemporary productions of Macbeth and Twelfth Night, with music by Sarah Blasko, as well as an intimate production of Romeo and Juliet.

With a program boasting Beethoven, Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov and five world premieres from Australian composers, Chief Conductor Jessica Cottis and the CSO paint a colourful portrait in their 2023 season Chroma.

Sydney-based trumpeter and composer, Tom Avgenicos, has won this year's Jazz Fellowship, which he will use to develop his collaborative practice and work on an environmental project.

Ensemble Offspring's micro-festival Listen Up! features the Australian Art Orchestra, Allara and Eric Avery in a program of electrifying new music by living composers.

Paul Stanhope, Olivia Davies, Liza Lim and the Australian Art Orchestra are among the winners at this year's Art Music Awards, presented at the first in-person ceremony in two years.

The five finalists, chosen from 10 semifinalists, will compete for the $30,000 Marianne Mathy Scholarship and other prizes on 1 October.