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Simon Halsey conducting the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's 'Voices en Masse', 2023.
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Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra sounds warning over stadium’s planned location

Building a football stadium just 40 metres from the TSO’s purpose-built performing and recording headquarters, is giving the Orchestra a…

Colarado's Takács Quartet will collaborate with Australian actor Angie Milliken in Musica Viva Australia's 2025 season. One woman and three men, the members of a string quartet, play on a wooden stage against a blue-lit backdrop.
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A year of innovation and tradition for Musica Viva Australia in 2025

Musica Viva Australia has launched an expansive, evocative season for the coming year, celebrating 80 years of chamber music with…

Iceland's Sigur Rós will perform a series of orchestral concerts in Australia in May 2025. Three white men pose in black against a black background.
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Sigur Rós announce Australian orchestral tour with ASO, MSO and others

The popular Icelandic post-rock group will perform with a 41-piece chamber orchestra in order to bring their latest album to…

Venezuelan-born male soprano Samuel Mariño opens the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra's 2025 season. Wearing a green velvet waistcoat, a pale pink shirt and a cravat, Mariño - who has light brown skin, dark eyes and curly black hair - parts a pair of white lace curtains and gently smiles at the camera.
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Going for baroque in 2025: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra celebrates its 35th anniversary

From Handel and Bach to new collaborations and commissions, the Brandenburg’s 2025 season promises to excite and delight.

The musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra arrayed on stage in a grand concert hall.
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Managing Director leaves MSO: Peter Garrett to conduct independent external review

Sophie Galaise has left the MSO after the Orchestra’s musicians made a statement of 'no confidence' in senior management.

Festival-goers at Byron Bay Bluesfest. A crowd of people gathering below a stage facing the camera. A figure in the centre of the photo is wrapped up like a mummy with their arms outstretched.
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Bluesfest axed after 2025, ending its 36-year run

News of Bluesfest's closure shocked some while others see it as inevitable due to shift in demand.

A group of young Aboriginal women dressed in black tracksuits bearing traditional designs in white, crouch and stand on stage as they sing.
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First Nations choir Marliya to take ‘Spinifex Gum’ to London

Making their international debut, the Cairns-based choir Marliya will perform the critically acclaimed ‘Spinifex Gum’ at the Barbican in October.

'Elder percussionist' Duré Dara OAM receives the Luminary Award for Victoria at 2024 Art Music Awards. A woman of Indian descent playing a range of percussion instruments.
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Powerful women creators sweep the 2024 Art Music Awards

This year's Art Music Awards offered a nod towards the lived experience of women creators, celebrating their strength and stewardship…

Two young female performers, one blonde-haired and playing a tambourine, the other red-haired and playing a ukulele, sing into the same microphone on stage at a music festival.
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Regional and Remote Music Summit headed to NSW in 2025

Following its successful Darwin debut this month, the Summit’s second iteration will be held in regional NSW next year.

2024 Regional & Remote Music Summit. A photo of a stage seen from afar against the sunset of a natural environment.
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Darwin to host first ever Regional & Remote Music Summit

This is for the seven million Australians existing outside of the metropolitan music industry who need their voices heard.

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