YouTube series immortalises classical music’s greatest icons using the popular plastic bricks.

We meet a violinist whose first language is music and who has become a UN Messenger of Peace.

Move over Stradivarius! Spider-varius instrument is made from silk spun by the Australian Golden Orb Spider.

Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi floats in front of a glacier as part of latest Greenpeace campaign.

The South Australian Government has announced $35.2 million revamp of Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide.

The winning entries of the Roland Digital Piano Design Awards feature radical reimaginings of the keyboard instrument.

Australian flautist Derek Jones’ new album Flute Perspectives opens with Peter Sculthorpe’s Songs of Sea and Sky, an adaption of a traditional dance song from Saibai, an island in Torres Strait. Originally for clarinet and piano, the music juxtaposes distinctive melodies from the region with the music of the missionaries, whose melodies and forms seeped into those of the Torres Strait Islands in the 19th century. The tension between these ideas styles is most potent in the fourth movement, Mission Hymn. A simple hymn tune in the piano, played by Leigh Harrold, is both peaceful and anachronistic against bird-like chirping and fluttering in the flute part. Sculthorpe’s influence on Australian music was pervasive and reverberates through many of the works on this disc. A student of Sculthorpe, Barry Conyngham’s Flute alternates burbling, flourishes in the instrument’s low register with declamatory snatches of melody. Australian jazz musician Brian Brown, Sculthorpe’s contemporary, improvised the dance-like Lily’s Garden, playing through a midi channel into computer notation software. The work celebrates the birth of Lily Jones – Derek Jones’ daughter and Brown’s granddaughter. Jones’ own composition on the album, Stillness, first appeared on his self-published album Sun Down Moon Up and is also grounded…

The Wagnerian tenor, renowned for his strong, lyrical voice, has passed away aged 81.

The sixth in our series of interviews with the jurors for the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in

Fundraising concert for Synergy, Taikoz and Gondwana Choirs branded a resounding success.

★★★★☆ Intel’s Drone 100 lights up the Sydney sky with sparkling and synchronised aerial acrobatics.

Violinst Emily Sun and pianist Chad Vindin take out major prizes at the prestigious UK competition.