Why so many of us love Australian Chamber Choir concerts can be accurately described by Rob Stove, author of the choir’s scholarly and detailed program notes …

Doric String Quartet honoured us with their presence in the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall for the first in their two-program tour of Australia. Program 1 comprised Haydn’s …

Since finding out at the start of the year that the Melbourne Youth Orchestra was tackling something as monumental as a Mahler symphony, I had known …

Melbourne Youth Orchestra’s Mahler 1 concert began on a sad note with CEO Dorian Jones dedicating the performance to the memory of MYO’s inaugural conductor, Eric …

Forming and maintaining a string quartet is a really big challenge. I have watched from the sidelines as two or three have evolved over the past …

Making his Melbourne Recital Centre debut on a cold Monday night, Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein was in no need of a warm-up. Liszt’s heroic Transcendental Etude …

When celebrated pedagogue Mauricio Fuks took three gifted violinists through their paces in an inspiring, master class at the Australian National Academy of Music last week, …

Louis Nowra wrote Così after a real life experience close to the one depicted in this play. Throughout, it reeks of truth – pithy observations, chills of …

Composed in 1825 for the coronation of King Charles X of France, it has taken nearly two centuries for Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey …