With her new double bass concerto premiering in Australia, Missy Mazzoli is one of the most successful women composers around. She also has big plans to get more girls writing music.

The Australian pianist and composer shares his favourite places in the world and the piece of music he’d happily never hear again!

The Dutch maestro on Hong Kong's acclaimed Ring and its possible return, and new music during his tenure at the New York Phil.

The one-time wild-child of British dance pays homage to Bowie, Satie and Patti Smith.

A new take on Salome, Sir Andrew Davis's wintery wander through Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica and more.

The Austrian composer would count the bricks in walls and the leaves on the trees.

The presenter of Fine Music 102.5’s In Conversation programme shares stories from the studio ahead of his milestone interview next Wednesday.

Was the composer as miserable as his doleful music might suggest, or was he merely reflecting the fashion for melancholy that gripped the Elizabethan age?

It didn’t take much to persuade legendary pianist Emanuel Ax to come and play Mozart with the SSO. But the fact that his preparatory period would coincide with the Australian Open didn’t hurt.

A fine string quartet stretches to 70 CDs while Furtwängler makes a vinyl comeback and Kats-Chernin celebrates her 60th.

Australian compositions may not immediately spring to mind when you consider the great 20th-century symphonies but, argues Rhoderick McNeill, there is a significant body of work worth celebrating.

Heated arguments and a case of musical rivalry lurk behind the four composers featured on the star violinist’s latest recording project.