Music
Performance review: A Score for Fed Square and Sun Songs
The 20th anniversary of Melbourne's Federation Square was heralded by site-specific sonic and lighting works.
The changing face of chamber music in Australia
Chamber music is increasingly being played by small-scale orchestras at festivals around the country, while enjoying a popular resurgence.
Concert review: Musical Theatre Gala, QSO
An entertaining evening of music theatre hits across a diverse program, but lacking high quality production values to really make…
Performance review: Smash it Up
Mashed up songs produce a hit playlist of entertainment.
Warwick Adeney steps down from the QSO Â
Ushering in a new era for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as a legendary concertmaster retires and a new management team…
How video games are bringing orchestral music to new ears
Wonderful orchestral and art music is being composed for video games along with greats of the classical canon repurposed into…
Björk to perform exclusive Australian gigs at Perth Festival
The Icelandic singer-songer will perform a series of concerts in Perth in early March 2023.
Barton meets Beethoven in classical music’s greatest get-together
Didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton speaks about the importance of story and place when playing with Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Concert review: Exhilaration, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk plays Prokofiev with outsanding clarity and precision.
Performance review: L’Hôtel
Luxuriate in this decadent immersive world of cabaret, circus and burlesque.