11 Sep, 2019

There’s nothing small about the 2020 chamber music season

The upcoming chamber music season promises a heady mix of exotic destinations, swirling colour, mystique, celebration and dazzling talent in a selection of bold programs that are awe-inspiring in their range and imagination.

11 Sep, 2019

National Chamber Music Championship 2020

To celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2020, Musica Viva Australia is proud to announce the introduction of a National Chamber Music Championship (NCMC) for secondary-school-aged students with support from Creative Victoria and in partnership with Melbourne Recital Centre and the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).

11 Sep, 2019

The Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence Awards

Congratulations to Sophie Galaise, Managing Director of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, on being named one of The Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence for 2019.

11 Sep, 2019

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra set to tour to China and South Korea

More than 20 years after its ground-breaking Asian tour, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (ASO) is set to take 66 musicians to China and South Korea in October 2019.

10 Sep, 2019

Arts and Cultural Funding - Ten Year Picture shows decline in recurrent investment

Public expenditure on cultural activity per capita has dropped by 4.9 per cent over the period 2007 to 2018, and cultural expenditure at 0.71 per cent of GDP ranks Australia 26th out of 33 countries, well below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members's average.

05 Sep, 2019

ASO advocates opening late September

ASO Advocates are a group of people aged 18-30 who are empowered to represent the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. They work together over the course of the year to drive and inspire engagement with orchestral music and the arts

04 Sep, 2019

Telstra Ballet Dancer Awards 2019

Telstra has announced the six nominees for 2019 awards- and celebrates its 35 year partnership with The Australian Ballet.

04 Sep, 2019

Vale Jane Mathews AO

Jane Mathews AO, whose passing was announced on Sunday September 1, was a visionary and generous supporter of Musica Viva Australia over several decades. Musica Viva invited former CEO Mary Jo Capps AM to pay tribute to Jane’s wide-ranging legacy.

04 Sep, 2019

Chinchilla Miles Roma Initiative

Queensland Symphony Orchestra musicians will travel to Roma, Miles and Chinchilla meeting the community, work-shopping with students and teachers and playing great music in October.

04 Sep, 2019

Creativity Connects Us – Australia Council’s new vision for the arts

The Australia Council has announced its new vision for a creatively connected Australia where creative enterprise is entrenched across society, industry and government as the fuel that ignites our social, cultural and economic success. 

04 Sep, 2019

New Breed 2019

Sydney Dance Company and Carriageworks, in conjunction with The Balnaves Foundation, announce four Australian choreographers commissioned to create works for the acclaimed New Breed initiative that supports Australia’s next generation of choreographers.

04 Sep, 2019

Wesfarmer Arts Young Artists 2019/2020

Congratulations to the new Wesfarmers Arts Young Artists for 2019 and 2020. WAO looks forward to working with Sopranos Chelsea Burns and Brianna Louwen, mezzo-soprano Chelsea Kluga, baritones Matthew Dixon and Lachlann Lawton, pianist Adrian Soares and conductor Leanne Puttick through this initiative.

04 Sep, 2019

Professor David Shirley joins Black Swan Board

Black Swan State Theatre Company is has announced the appointment of Professor David Shirley to the Company’s Board of Directors.

04 Sep, 2019

Belvoir announce 2019 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow

Exceptional playwright and Trawlwoolway, Pakana/Palawa man from Lutrawita/Tasmania, Nathan Maynard has been announced as the 2019 Balnaves Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fellow. The Fellowship is an evolution of the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright Award, which has long been recognised as one of the most prestigious playwriting awards in Australia.

28 Aug, 2019

Concert for Life

On World Suicide Prevention Day, 10 September 2019, some of Australia’s leading musicians will come together for a special concert to raise funds for Indigenous suicide prevention, presented in association with Suicide Prevention Australia.

28 Aug, 2019

What is the True Value of Arts and Culture?

Join Director Chris Saines CNZM (Queensland Art Galley / Gallery of Modern Art) in a panel discussion with Li Cunxin AO (Queensland Ballet), Amanda Jolly (Queensland Theatre), Patrick Nolan (Opera Queensland), Craig Whitehead (Queensland Symphony Orchestra) AND John Kotzas (Queensland Performing Arts Centre).

28 Aug, 2019

TSO announce Wayne Neilson as winner of inaugural ‘Heyward Prize’ for Tasmanian composers

The TSO announce composer Wayne Neilson as the winner of the inaugural Heyward Prize for Tasmanian composers, for his work From Valley to Summit.

28 Aug, 2019

Ballet Under The Stars Comes To The Latrobe Valley

The Australian Ballet’s free outdoor gala event Ballet Under the Stars will visit the Latrobe Valley for the first time, staging a full-length performance of the much-loved classic Giselle.

28 Aug, 2019

Sherry Duhe appointed as Chair of West Australian Ballet

West Australian Ballet has had a strong history of female leaders including Founder and first Artistic Director Kira Bousloff who established the Company in 1952 (and led the Company until 1969). Now in 2019, the Company is proud to have appointed its first female Chair.

23 Aug, 2019

Kate Mulvany’s The Harp in the South takes out three awards including highest honour

Playwright Kate Mulvany’s epic and acclaimed stage adaptation of the Australian classic The Harp in the South has won the David Williamson Prize for Excellence in Writing for Australian Theatre, the Stage Category and the highest honour of the Australian Writers’ Guild’s annual AWGIE Awards, the 2019 Major Award.

23 Aug, 2019

New MVA partnership provides top music training

Musica Viva In Schools is partnering with The CASS Foundation on a new teacher professional development initiative to support music education and teacher capacity in disadvantaged schools throughout Victoria’s south-west in 2019.

22 Aug, 2019

TSO's Australian Composer’s School marks its second year

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra’s Australian Composers’ School is a unique opportunity to develop orchestral composition skills with one of Australia’s foremost symphony orchestras and forms an integral part of the TSO’s Australian Music Program.

21 Aug, 2019

Assistant Conductor of the MSO joins Welsh National Opera as first Conductor in Residence

Welsh National Opera is pleased to welcome Tianyi Lu as the first Conductor in Residence. This follows an open call for aspiring conductors to apply for the post and an audition process with WNO Orchestra earlier this year.

21 Aug, 2019

WASO wins Excellence in Music Education Award

Winners have been announced across 11 national categories and eight state categories of the 2019 Art Music Awards.

21 Aug, 2019

Brett Clegg appointed Chair of Sydney Dance Company

Australia’s leading contemporary dance company today announced that the Chair of Sydney Dance Company, Karen Moses, will be stepping down after 3 years in the role. Brett Clegg, currently the Deputy Chairman, will take the role of Chair.

21 Aug, 2019

Esteemed leaders in philanthropy, business and culture honoured at 2019 Creative Partnership Awards

Seven exemplary individuals from Australia’s philanthropic, business and arts sectors were honoured at the 2019 Creative Partnerships Awards in Melbourne.

16 Aug, 2019

Government Arts Funding Update

This month the Meeting of Cultural Ministers released its report on total arts and cultural government funding 2017-18 with capital expenditure driving growth. Separately, the Australia Council for the Arts has invited 162 small-to-medium-sized arts companies to make full applications for its four-year funding grant program with over 250 other organisations now consider their options.

16 Aug, 2019

Welcome new AMPAG Chair and Deputy

We are delighted to welcome Mary Jo Capps AM as the incoming Chair of AMPAG and Elizabeth Jameson as Deputy Chair.

15 Aug, 2019

July Sneak Peeks 2019

July sees our members breaking new ground, pushing boundaries and enchanting new audiences, with a number of premieres to look forward to. Brilliant composer Elena Kats-Chernin talks about writing Whitely, Opera Australia’s production about Australia’s iconic artist, which premieres at Sydney Opera House. Queensland Theatre has two premieres — City of Gold and Storm Boy — and we peek behind the scenes with Simona Cosentini and Simone Tesorieri who share their inspiration for City of Gold’s set design. Malthouse Theatre presents the world stage premiere of the chilling sci-fi thriller Solaris, and Melbourne Theatre Company have pulled of a coup with their stage production of the screenplay Shakespeare in Love.

15 Aug, 2019

June Sneak Peeks 2019

AMPAG members have plenty on offer across the board this month. Starting behind the scenes, we offer an insight into Eumeralla, the war requiem composed by Deborah Cheetham AO (and performed by MSO) to honour one of the Australia’s most brutal resistance wars.

15 Aug, 2019

ANAM-WASO Side by Side

In a new partnership 31 Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) musicians joined West Australian Symphony Orchestra musicians - 16 of whom are ANAM Alumni – to create an epic 101-member orchestra under the baton of Simone Young, who has a long-standing relationship with WASO and ANAM.

14 Aug, 2019

Tragic loss of revered actor Australian Ningali Lawford-Wolf

Sydney Theatre Company expressed its absolute devastation, confirming the passing away of Ningali Lawford-Wolf in Edinburgh, Scotland on Sunday 11th August, while she was touring with STC and performing in The Secret River. This is a great lose to the artistic life of our country. Ningali was an incredibly talented performer as well as a wonderfully caring and thoughtful person. We’ve lost one of Australian theatre’s greatest treasures.

08 Aug, 2019

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Festival of Learning

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Festival of Learning held in the last week of July was an immersive week of activity dedicated to educating and encouraging students to be involved in orchestral music. The week included both professional development for teachers, and inclusive concerts that encouraged participation for students of all ages and abilities.

08 Aug, 2019

Torres Strait Island group visited Perth schools

Wyniss bring traditional song, dance and games to Perth kids with Musica Viva In Schools.

08 Aug, 2019

Emerging Tasmanian composers work with TSO and DRILL

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra partnership with Hobart youth dance company DRILL has enabled three emerging Tasmanian composers to work one-on-one with a choreographer to develop the context that informed their musical scores. These works have been recorded by the TSO o be experienced through wireless headphones during DRILL performances in August.

08 Aug, 2019

Sharing the joy of circus on Tiwi

Circus Oz had the privilege of touring their show Precarious to remote communities on the Tiwi Islands in June that enabled cultural exchange and community engagement.

07 Aug, 2019

MTC announces three new writers-in-residence and seven new commissions

Now entering the third year of the program, 25 writers have been commissioned or are in residence with Melbourne Theatre Company.

01 Aug, 2019

Musica Viva Australia announce Casio as a new In Schools partner

The leading Japanese electronic musical instruments brand has joined forces with Musica Viva to support music education programs in schools nationally. Casio is providing keyboards as prizes for competitions organised by Musica Viva In Schools (MVIS) which will go to winning schools across the country, encouraging students and teachers to explore more musical activities in the classroom.

31 Jul, 2019

Art Write Light: Story Factory collaboration with Bangarra

Bangarra have collaborated in Story Factory's new, three-year project. Generously funded by The Balnaves Foundation, this project will give more than 600 young people from across Western Sydney the opportunity to engage with one of three contemporary artists, from different disciplines, and develop writing inspired by their creative practice.

31 Jul, 2019

Penny Miles appointed as Circus Oz Executive Director

Circus Oz announces that Penny Miles is appointed as Circus Oz Executive Director.

26 Jul, 2019

AIR awards

Grigoryan Brothers/Adelaide Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Northey win Best Independent Classical Album at AIR awards.

25 Jul, 2019

2019 Art Music Awards finialists

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre announce the 2019 Art Music Awards finalists.

24 Jul, 2019

Koori Youth Circus program gets a boost

Cirucs Oz have announced that their Koori Youth Circus program has been generously funded by Darebin City Council for the next three years.

24 Jul, 2019

Black Swan State Theatre Company's Emerging Writers' Group 2019

The Emerging Writers’ Group for 2019 includes; Michelle Aitken, Zac James, Doreshawar Khan, Daley King and Sam Nerida. They will work with Black Swan’s Director of New Writing Jeffrey Jay Fowler.

24 Jul, 2019

MSO Music Exchange in Indonesia

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has renewed its historic cultural partnership with the Government of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, for another three years, with plans for a fourth Youth Music camp in August.

24 Jul, 2019

MSO celebrates rising stars of Australian composition

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra welcomes the newest members of the Cybec 21st Century Young Composers Program, with four young Australians selected for the prestigious project in 2019.

19 Jul, 2019

Wellbeing in the performing arts

As part of the Arts Wellbeing Collective suite of programs, Arts Centre Melbourne has partnered with Support Act, to pilot a sector-wide Wellbeing Helpline, staffed by clinicians with an understanding of the unique challenges of the performing arts industry.

17 Jul, 2019

Congratulations to the 2019 Helpmann Award Winners!

Belvoir was the biggest winner, achieving 13 wins across several productions, with diversity emerging as a powerful theme. Key categories went to Counting and Cracking, a Sri Lankan immigrant family saga (featuring a multicultural cast performing in six different languages), and Barbara and the Camp Dogs, a high-octane musical.

11 Jul, 2019

Help shape what's next for Victoria's creative industries

Consultation is now open for the Victorian Government’s next creative industries strategy which will guide initiatives and investment from 2020-2024.

08 Jul, 2019

Sydney Theatre Company appoints three new board members

Sydney Theatre Company Chairman Ian Narev has announced that Anita Belgiorno-Nettis AM, Mark Scott AO and Michael Triguboff have been appointed to the STC board.

05 Jul, 2019

WAB in Jakarta – Building Cultural Bridges through Ballet

Ballet.id's collaboration with Jakarta Arts Council to present Historia: The Journey of Ballet in Indonesia, featured a performance by West Australian Ballet (WAB) and choreography by former WAB Demi-Soloist Christopher Hill, in celebration of Indonesia’s 174 year long history with the art form.

04 Jul, 2019

ACO Academy

Twenty-three talented school students from across Australia have been selected via a competitive audition process to participate in the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s (ACO) acclaimed ACO Academy program for 2019.

04 Jul, 2019

Gramophone's 50 Greatest Beethoven Recordings

Congratulations to Queensland Symphony Orchestra 2019 Artist-in-Residence Paul Lewis on taking home two spots in Gramophone's 50 Greatest Beethoven Recordings (2019 update).

04 Jul, 2019

The Jette Parker Young Artist Program

The Jette Parker Young Artist Program at Queensland Ballet is an apprenticeship program which fosters the talents of gifted young dancers at the start of their professional careers.

04 Jul, 2019

Louise Crossley Conducting Workshop particpants

Tasmania Symphony Orchestra have announced the six successful applicants for their second "Louise Crossley Conducting Workshop" - a fantastic training opportunity for aspiring female conductors. 

03 Jul, 2019

Young artists emerge from composer cocoon

Composition Project is one of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra’s most enduring and successful programs, providing young and emerging Western Australian composers with the opportunity to develop their skills in a professional orchestral environment.

03 Jul, 2019

MTC's 2019 First Peoples young artists program commences

Melbourne Theatre Company marked the first day of its 2019 First Peoples Young Artists Program with a welcome to country and smoking ceremony at MTC Headquarters in Southbank, performed by Janet Galpin and David Tournier from the Boon Wurrung Foundation.

03 Jul, 2019

Orchestra Victoria marks its milestone 50th birthday with a gala at the National Gallery of Victoria

To mark its milestone 50th anniversary this year, Orchestra Victoria will host a grand gala on Thursday 15 August in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. The event will showcase a retrospective musical program that looks back on half a century of work and music that has inspired dancers, singers and audiences of Victoria and beyond.

03 Jul, 2019

Bell Shakespeare’s Women in Shakespeare program

Bell Shakespeare’s Women in Shakespeare program uses drama to explore and rewrite female characters’ stories in Shakespeare. It is delivered in ten-week residencies to culturally and linguistically diverse young women in Western Sydney schools.

26 Jun, 2019

Opera Australia announces sponsorship with industry leader Smartgroup

Employee benefits and administration services company, Smartgroup Corporation has signed a sponsorship agreement with Opera Australia, the country’s largest and most prestigious arts organisation this week.

25 Jun, 2019

Music won’t stop for Challis students

The band plays on at Armadale Senior High School thanks to Healthway and Musica Viva. Following the success of ABC TV’s Don’t Stop the Music, presented in partnership with Musica Viva Australia, teachers at Armadale Senior High School are creating opportunities for Challis Community Primary School students to continue their music education thanks to the establishment of a new year seven concert band program.

21 Jun, 2019

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to tour USA this October

For the first time in almost 50 years, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is touring the United States of America, showcasing their artistry to new audiences in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Worcester (MA) and New York City this October.

19 Jun, 2019

Musica Viva In Schools launches a trio of new touring ensembles for 2019

Musica Viva Australia have premiered three new ensembles to inspire, educate and deliver joy to students and teachers in classrooms throughout Australian in 2019.

13 Jun, 2019

Lost Operas of Oz

State Opera South Australia is committed to supporting the creation and development of Australian works. Over the next three years, 2019 -2021 State Opera will present nine re-evaluations of some very important Australian works: The Lost Operas of Oz.

13 Jun, 2019

Sydney Coliseum Theatre welcomes Australia’s leading arts companies

West HQ Chief Executive Officer Richard Errington announced the new Sydney Coliseum Theatre’s Opening Program. 

12 Jun, 2019

Honours list acknowledges many in the arts, with strong recognition for benefactors

As always, we offer our congratulations to everyone on the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, and we take delight in singling out and celebrating a few of our own for their outstanding contribution to the arts.

12 Jun, 2019

2019 Helpmann Awards nominations

Live Performance Australia (LPA) have announced the Helpmann Awards Nominees ahead of the Helpman Awards 2019 to be held in Melbourne next month, 14 and 15 July.

12 Jun, 2019

Rusty Orchestra in tune with WASO

Involvement in music and the arts has proven benefits for mental health and emotional well-being, so this is a really special program. Each year, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra make dreams of being centre stage with a world class orchestra a reality for a lucky few.

07 Jun, 2019

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Community Centre Concert Series 2019

The Community Centre concert series enabled Adelaide Symphony Orchestra to enrich and create many lasting impacts on the lives of South Australians who face a range of seemingly insurmountable barriers to attend mainstage concerts.

07 Jun, 2019

SSO and ACO free performances for worldwide Make Music Day

Australian Chamber Orchestra Quartet will perform a free concert at the Art Gallery of NSW and Sydney Symphony Orchestra will broadcast their performance to the world on 21 June - Make Music Day. A free celebration of music making now held in more in 120 countries worldwide.

07 Jun, 2019

AMPAG Board announcements

AMPAG warmly welcomes two new Board members and the return of three serving directors following formal proceeding at AMPAG's AGM, held on the 31 May.

07 Jun, 2019

Brandenburg in Toowoomba

Toowoomba’s reputation as the Darling Downs cultural capital has been further enhanced with the return of the world-renowned Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for a fifth year, this time celebrating 30 years of Baroque.

07 Jun, 2019

Meet one of ASO's longest subscribers – 73 years and counting

87 year old ASO subscriber Richard Willing was just 14 years old when he attended the Beethoven festival in 1945 with his birthday money, and has been attending ASO concerts ever since.

06 Jun, 2019

Major new recording, The Environmental Symphony- performed by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Released on United Nations World Environment Day, Wednesday June 5, ABC Classic presents The Environmental Symphony, an ambitious and epic work that spans five billion years, from the formation of the planet through to the devastation of our current age.

06 Jun, 2019

May Sneak Peeks 2019

This month we have a pulse-racing mix of the classics, the rare and the sensational. We peek behind the scenes at Melbourne Theatre Company’s rehearsal room as the cast prepare for The Violent Outburst That Drew Me to You; and we eavesdrop on a conversation with playwright Jane Brodie and actor Igor Sas about Black Swan State Theatre Company’s production of Brodie’s Water, premiering this month.

06 Jun, 2019

The University of Melbourne becomes the official university partner of the ACO

Students and staff at the University of Melbourne will have unparalleled access to education and research opportunities with a $1 million partnership with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

05 Jun, 2019

Noongar Shakespeare Project

Bell Shakespeare has proudly partnered with Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company supported by Wesfarmers Arts as they work on an educational cultural language program that includes the development and presentation of a full-length adaptation and translation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Noongar language.

04 Jun, 2019

Paul Kildea announced as Musica Viva's incoming Artistic Director

The internationally acclaimed musician and author will assume artistic leadership of the organisation in mid-2019 following the remarkable twenty-year tenure of Carl Vine AO, which concludes at the end of this year.

29 May, 2019

Seniors' creativity recognised and engaged through Ballet

The Australian Ballet and NurseWatch partnered to host special dance workshops so senior people can positively engage in ballet.

29 May, 2019

West Australian Opera partners with the City of Joondalup for OUR VOICES

OUR VOICES is a collaborative, community based project that will take place over a 6 week period suitable for teachers, choir leaders and singers alike.

29 May, 2019

Boy Swallows Universe takes to the stage

In a huge coup, Queensland Theatre has secured the rights for the world premiere of the stage version of Brisbane-born Australian author Trent Dalton’s breakout mega-hit novel, Boy Swallows Universe.

29 May, 2019

Bangarra appoints new Associate Artistic Director

Bangarra Dance Theatre is thrilled to announce the appointment of Frances Rings to the newly created position of Associate Artistic Director, working closely alongside Artistic Director Stephen Page.

29 May, 2019

Opera Australia announces world’s first fully digital Ring Cycle for Brisbane 2020

In a world first, Opera Australia, in partnership with the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council, announced it will stage one of its most ambitious projects to date, a brand new, fully digital production of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre, in November 2020.

29 May, 2019

MSO wins prestigious Australia-China Business Award

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has won the 2019 AusCham Westpac Australia-China Business Award for Business Innovation, Creative Industries and the Digital Economy.

28 May, 2019

Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave after transforming the company

Circus Oz announce has annouced that Artistic Director and Co-CEO Rob Tannion will leave the company on Friday, 28 June 2019 as he accepts a fantastic opportunity with Cirque du Soleil.

24 May, 2019

David McAllister steps down

Graig Dunn, Chair of The Australian Ballet has announced that Artistic Director David McAllister AM will step down from this role at the end of 2020.

23 May, 2019

WASO returns to the regions

WASO is hitting the road this October and November with a touring party of over 70 musicians to share a complete live symphony orchestra experience in Esperance and Albany.

22 May, 2019

Opera Australia launches 2019 Victorian Schools Tour

Opera Australia launched its 2019 Victorian Schools Tour with a performance of The Barber of Seville at South Melbourne Park Primary. Thousands of Victorian primary school students will attend more than 80 performances between 20 May and 23 August.

22 May, 2019

Circus Oz welcomes new Board members and recruits for an Executive Director

At the recent Annual General Meeting, Circus Oz welcomed three new Board members.

22 May, 2019

Richard Tognetti and Bill Henson reunite to present Luminous

In August, the ACO will continue its exploration of multi-sensory performances as it reunites with one of Australia’s most revered and influential artists, photographer Bill Henson, to present Luminous, a musical and visual feast that pairs the music of Pēteris Vasks, Benjamin Britten and R.E.M. with Henson’s hauntingly dramatic photography.

22 May, 2019

An opportunity to inspire and engage women conductors

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra announces the second Louise Crossley Conducting Workshop, a conductor training opportunity for female conductors, will take place on September 28 in Hobart.

16 May, 2019

The Greens' Arts Policy and the 2019 Election

The Greens, in releasing their Arts Policy on 28 April, are calling for an end to cuts in the sector, including a restoration and ongoing indexation of Australia Council funding, as well as proposing new initiatives, including:

16 May, 2019

Arts are back on the agenda

Launched Saturday 11 May, the ALP’s ambitious cultural policy puts Arts back on the agenda. AMPAG welcomes the policy as a valuable starting point for a renewed conversation around the Arts in Australia.

15 May, 2019

Senate and independent candidates pledge Arts support.

Centre Alliance, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party and independents Kerryn Phelps and Zali Steggall have expressed their support for the Arts in the lead up to the election this Saturday. We welcome additional candidate updates.

15 May, 2019

New works by Lior, Ade Vincent and Mark Holdsworth

World premieres by three of the most exciting young composers on the Australian music scene headlined the 2019 Metropolis New Music Festival, where the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra celebrated the finest national and international living composers.

15 May, 2019

Harding Miller Foundation Opera Scholarship 2019

Soprano and Principal Artist with Opera Australia Natalie Aroyan has been announced as the recipient of the Harding Miller Foundation Opera Scholarship 2019.

15 May, 2019

Musica Viva donor Dr Suzanne Packer AM on healing through music

Long-time Musica Viva subscriber, donor – and 2019 Senior Australian of the Year – Dr Suzanne Packer AM is unequivocal. Music and music education should be available to every child. As a paediatrician who has worked for many years with disadvantaged children, she came to recognise the special place that music can play in helping children to heal. But the genesis of this passion for promoting the power of music started at an early age.

15 May, 2019

A standing ovation in NYC

The Australian Ballet’s 2019 New York City tour has been a wonderful success. They began their short season at the legendary Joyce Theater last Wednesday night with a Gala Program and then performed a 7-show season of works by three of our resident choreographers, taking our final curtain call on Sunday evening before heading home to Australia.

14 May, 2019

SDC International tour

In June Sydney Dance Company will embark on an extensive European tour to Austria, Finland, Poland and Spain with Rafael Bonachela’s critically acclaimed ab [intra].

13 May, 2019

Next Stage Writers in Residence applications open

With a $4.6 million investment by MTC and MTC’s Playwrights Giving Circle, the NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program will introduce the most rigorous playwright commissioning and development process ever undertaken by the Company, setting a new benchmark for play development in Australia.