While live performance is returning, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean virtually no international artists will tour here. Will we seize the chance to create a greater space for Indigenous, female and ethnically diverse voices to speak to us about Australia today?

As ABC Classic releases his Concerto for Oud and Orchestra, recorded live with the Sydney Symphony, Joseph Tawadros explains his love for the instrument, and how the composition was born.

This week Deborah Jones recommends a group of works from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Cuatro from SDC and SSO, and La Sylphide from Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Sydney Symphony and Sydney Dance Company have collaborated on a new online series. Oboist Diana Doherty and dancer Charmene Yap discuss working on the project.

This week's highlights include Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Australian World Orchestra and Simone Young conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

The Peruvian maestro with a diary full of Australian dates talks to Clive Paget about career choices, composers who float his boat, and how a zero-waste lifestyle has enabled him to turn garbage into art.

Sir Andrew Davis, Alondra de la Parra and David Robertson are about to conduct their final concerts as artistic chiefs of the Melbourne, Queensland and Sydney Symphony Orchestras respectively. Here’s a look back on their time Down Under.

The Scottish maestro is the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s new Principal Guest Conductor. He talks to Clive Paget about early obsessions, managing relationships, and the thorny question of God and music.

With Stalin bearing down on him, Shostakovich withdrew his monumental Fourth Symphony at the very last minute, consigning it to a drawer for the next 25 years. Mark Wigglesworth tells us why the score was so dangerous, and how the composer’s music changed forever.

From Rattle’s Mozart to English alt-rock band Muse, these are the four albums the energetic violinist is listening to this month.

Catching up with the global phenomenon in New York, Clive Paget discovers how those bold interpretations get developed and learns a few of the things that have made an older and wiser Lang Lang into a more rounded artist.

We spoke to the SSO's Associate Principal Trumpet ahead of concerts celebrating his 40-year anniversary with the ensemble.

The Dutch violinist talks about moving countries to study at the Menuhin School age 11, her remarkably wide repertoire and the challenges of performing Beethoven’s and Sibelius’s concertos.

Ahead of his trip to Tasmania, the young American virtuoso extols the joys of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto and defends it from the criticisms of its first dedicatee, Leopold Auer, and the venomous Eduard Hanslick.

Having observed both classical and jazz musicians at work, Guy Noble weighs up the similarities and differences.

Limelight's 2018 Australian Artist of the Year: Critics' Choice talks about her artistic principles, the luxury of choice and taking on America in the seasons to come.