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

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 ...

In 2026, ABC Classic is 50 years young. We're celebrating five decades of broadcasting with a year-long program of concerts, special broadcasts and new initiatives. Andrea Lam will present a new piano ...

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With the exception of names like our grand Dames of opera, Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, Australia's track-record of nurturing talent here at home hasn't always been stellar. Conductor Simone ...

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 ...

I attended this year’s session as both writer and participant, performing my narrated concert, Being Mrs Bach, which was commissioned by the festival, with 15 musicians and a costume from the National ...

Brain’s classic accounts of the Mozart and Strauss concertos are library classics which still sound splendid. You really have to hear his flamboyant 1947 recording of Strauss 1, played on a battered ...

What is classical music’s place today? Will there still be an engaged audience for repertoires of the past centuries? The conductor, Leon Botstein, didn’t seem to hold high expectations for The ...

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A Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter and musician, Angie McMahon is one to watch. Her latest album release 'Light, Dark, Light Again' hit record stores last October, and since then, she's ...