The Opera Australia CEO explains how she moved from playing the clarinet to arts management, and how she was once a whiz on the WX7, a Yamaha MIDI controller.

The culinary icon explains how she was brought up on music and can’t imagine a day without it.

The writer, broadcaster, theatre-maker and OzAsia Festival Artistic Director recalls how writing down the lyrics to pop songs fermented her love of music.

The Artistic Director of the Brisbane Festival explains how her own children inspired her to invite Brisbane’s young people to suggest the music for this year’s Riverfire event.

Currently playing Mary Poppins, the rising musical theatre star expresses gratitude for her violin training and reveals her family’s love for Celine Dion.

The international siren and comedienne extraordinaire reveals the music that runs through her veins, and the thrill she gets singing with a full orchestra.

The Artistic Director of West Australian Ballet first came across classical music while taking dance classes as a young boy. He also loves playing guitar, so it’s no surprise that he’s a big fan of Radiohead.

Musicals, opera, film scores, classical guitar and the incomparable Stephen Sondheim are all part of the rich musical tapestry that inspires the State Theatre Company South Australia Artistic Director.

The versatile entertainer is thrilled to be in Jagged Little Pill – a show that she says “feels like a sign of the times” as Rent was when she made her musical theatre debut in 1998.

Thanks to her beloved – and greatly talented – parents, music was ever-­present in the ABC Chair’s home when she was a child. The passion that was sparked then has never waned.

The new CEO of Bundanon Trust, and former Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), explains how art and music have always been part of her DNA.

The host of ABC TV’s Art Works recalls being surrounded by singing on the Papua New Guinean island where she was raised, and how her world opened up when she joined community radio.