From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

CLASSICAL composer Peter Sculthorpe, who has died after a long illness, over six decades changed Australia’s musical landscape forever. The 85-year-old Sculthorpe died in Sydney on Friday morning ...

Classical music sometimes has a reputation for being 'pale, male and stale.' A new generation of musicians is broadening our ...

Music is traditional at a funeral, like "Mozart's Requiem" and "Amazing Grace." But, "Highway to Hell"? A cemetery manager in Adelaide, Australia, says he's getting more requests for classic rock than ...

If his name isn’t familiar, his music probably is. Einaudi has become the most streamed classical artist in the world via a sound that is immersive, transporting and emotionally direct. Influenced by ...

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The Australian String Quartet (ASQ) has revealed an expansive 2024 program featuring national and international performances, world-class festival appearances and enthralling new collaborations. The ...

Why not spend $1 million more to promote our music-making to the world, via superlative recordings? Indeed, the Adelaide Ring cycle in 2004 would not have been recorded without Vandamme’s doing, and ...

2025 is a big year for the Australian music world. Several music groups and organisations are celebrating major milestone anniversaries. These groups have provided opportunities for hundreds of ...

Meet the heavy metal-loving classical music presenter who's revolutionising how Australians think about Mozart, Minecraft and everything in between. But the reality is, the face of Australian ...

But the reality is, the face of Australian classical music is just as likely to be found at an Amyl and the Sniffers gig as in a concert hall, or ripping up the d-floor or thrashing to some heavy ...