Belonging to a specific culture or genre can be great, but you can end up being stymied, without realising.

What can a grand old European city tell us about life in Australia today? Roland Peelman chats with Julian Day about how new music and First Nations musicians play an essential role in this year’s Vienna-themed Canberra International Music Festival.

Cameron Lam spotlights the flute in his latest playlist of new Australian music.

Cameron Lam's playlist of Australian art music for December explores ideas of reflection, community and support.

Greater diversity in revamped categories sees the established go head-to-head with the up-and-coming.

Violinist Dale Barltrop tells us about the ensemble’s recording project which will see new Australian works released digitally across 2020.

For close to 3000 years, people have turned to the Book of Psalms for consolation. For nearly as long, composers have transformed these texts into some of the most profound music imaginable. Justine Nguyen explores how a unique choral project sees four choirs perform all 150 Psalms set to music by 150 different composers over the course of 12 concerts.

Cicada song is a vividly Australian sound. Kate Moore tells us how these ‘little stringed instruments’ inspired her new work for the Australian String Quartet.

To celebrate Mother’s Day, four composers featured on ABC Classic’s Women of Note compilation tell us about the women who inspired them.

Featuring Ute Lemper, requiems, Rossini's Il Viaggio a Reims, ZOFO's new Pictures at an Exhibition, the Bolshoi Ballet and the AWO's Alexander Briger.

The “sorceress of percussion” enchants a capacity crowd in a concert of Australian music.

Perfect compilation proves Aussie sisters have been doing it for themselves for a century.